[rocksmyfaceoff.info]

• Lord a’ mercy, all the administrative work that I know of? Done. Server cancellation request is in. I’m … gonna take a breather…! #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• WordPress updates. LOTS and LOTS of WordPress updates. The account moves are nearly finished, though; only grace-pca.org is left now… #
• All 57 accounts are now on our new server, goodgame.rocksmyfaceoff.net! We’ll shut down the old box, miller, later on Sunday. WOOHOO! #
• Migration to the new server is officially complete!!!!! #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

If you’re a user of Twitter, you may wish to follow rmfoinfo on Twitter. Thanks to Alex King’s awesome Twitter Tools, you’ll get up-to-the-second notice that something’s wrong on the server. [We post so rarely that Google Reader, Newsgator, etc. aren't going to notify you for hours after an outage because they don't scrape us very often.]

Also, several of you have, through no fault of your own, gotten caught by our firewall. I found out one reason why: Shaun Inman’s Mint, which we use extensively around the RMFO network, sometimes does things that the Apache module mod_security doesn’t like. Given that CSF/LFD monitors mod_security, you get firewalled for no good reason. But knowing that this is a way to fix it, I’ve been rolling out the fix.

Now, I gotta get back to doing WordPress upgrades …

The last of the moves to the new server will be complete this weekend. Today, I’m moving andrewosenga.net, caedmonscall.net, and donmillerfans.net amongst others. This will me some downtime for each. Thanks for your patience.

Update, 1800 CST: Well, that cc.net downtime was terribly embarrassing, given how easy the fix was. Sorry about that!

Everything else has gone pretty smoothly. I have one account left to move off of the old server, which I’ll do late tonight, and then I’m done! Huzzah. I figure that, for 57 account moves, only having one really get my goat isn’t a bad record at all.

Howdy all:

Had a massive [several hundred processes] spike of exim usage just now. I’ve restarted exim and will monitor things; also, I have a support ticket in with the NOC to see if they can help triage this.

Update, 1228 CST: Well, 1.6 GB of email was sitting in the default address’s account. It’s … now gone. That was causing a large part of the problem, because we were getting absolutely mailbombed [dozens of messages a second to non-existent addresses on rmfo-blogs.com]. Now the server rejects any incoming email to rmfo-blogs.com that’s not to a specific address out of hand. [And since there are no mailboxes on the server, that effectively settles the problem.]

I’ll do an audit of all the other accounts on the box and make sure that their default addresses are similarly configured to prevent future issues of a similar nature.