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Posts tagged Scm
Server Downtimes Addressed
Nov 24th
It came to my attention over the weekend that the Apache webserver running on my server was down for approximately 4 hours on Saturday, and again for about an hour on Sunday. For some reason, Apache keeps receiving terminate signals and shuts down – but I cannot find any real reason behind it in the logs. The best guess I can make is that something is going on with Passenger (a.k.a. – mod_rails) with a spawned Ruby on Rails app, but since I love Redmine too much for SCM and project management I’m going to let this one slide.
Anyways, this problem has been addressed. I installed a process monitor on the server which checks running applications and daemons every minute to make sure they’re up to snuff. Should Apache crash, hang, or simply take up far too much memory it will be restarted. So far in the time since it was installed yesterday, it restarted Apache successfully when it was down this morning. Hopefully I will find a reason behind Apache’s sudden deaths soon so that I do not have to rely on the monit daemon simply to restart it.
New Server, Projects on Subversion
Nov 7th
Well, after being completely disgusted with my previous web host, I made the decision to pick up a VPS from a New York-based hosting company, CreativeVPS. I picked up a couple of their Halloween specials and got a great hosting deal for a great price. As a result, everybody should see an increase in the responsiveness of the website, as well as all of my other websites.
Along with this, since it is a VPS where I get my own root access, I am beginning to switch my project’s SCM to the server using Subversion. Right now both FunFunDC++ and FunFunIRC have been migrated, and you can view the repository as well as issue/support tracking using the Redmine installation I put up. They can be reached at projects.jonnyfunfun.com via both unsecure and SSL. Please note that the SSL certificate is self-signed, so your browser might complain about it being invalid should you decide to go the SSL route.
As for the forums, I am yet to get around to setting them up – so don’t even bother going there yet. Also, the gallery is royally broken and will probably be replaced with a different web-application.
