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Hello everyone, it’s your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here.
I plan to migrate our servers to a different data centre tonight. There will be some disruption during the move, and it may take time for your DNS records to be updated.
We’re moving from the Fremont data centre, which has turned out to be about as reliable as a Ford Pinto, to the Dallas data centre (I look forward to your big-hats-and-oil jokes).
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan tyrant here.
To perform some important maintenance on the site, it will be necessary to deactivate all Ozblogistan blogs temporarily on Sunday afternoon. I am expecting to take the site down around 2pm, central standard time, for up to two hours.
For some time now I, your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant, have been considering expanding the Ozblogistan family. For my thesis research I require a larger pool of blogs under management.
To that end, I have opened up a second server for Ozblogistan. Shortly, one server will handle the database while the original server handles the web side of things.
This will (theoretically) speed up performance and make it easier for me to grow Ozblogistan.
This decision is unrelated to the recent stoushing (though the stoushing may lead to other changes in future).
What this means:
To keep discussion of this matter centralised, I have disabled comments everywhere except on the main Ozblogistan entry.
Thank you for your attention.
Updates
Taking the plunge:
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan tyrant here.
LP’s domain name has expired. Consequently it is no longer possible to navigate directly to larvatusprodeo.net.
I have reactivated larvatusprodeo.ozblogistan.com.au in the meantime while the domain issues are sorted out.
Update: normal service has been resumed.
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan Overlord here.
Last week I wrote briefly about slowness being caused by attempts to debug a comments plugin used by several Ozblogistan blogs — Brian’s Latest Comments — in the context of Larvatus Prodeo. It transpires that LP’s database of comments was too large to process without causing errors and slowdowns. During the week I worked on various modifications; these ‘work’ in that they have the correct behaviour and don’t crash, but in actual use they have proved to be unacceptably slow.
Consequently I have asked our blogs to deactivate the offending plugin for a few weeks. Our busiest, Catallaxy Files and Larvatus Prodeo, have done so, which should for now improve performance for everyone.
Why have I asked them to deactivate it for a few weeks? Because yours truly is moving to Darwin to take up a new job. I won’t have my usual computer for 3 weeks, according to the removalists. Once I am settled in I have another plan of attack to try, but until then I will not be in a position to easily fix things. Until then, enjoy the blogging.
You’ve probably noticed some slowness in the past 2 hours. That’s me, your loving Ozblogistan admin / tyrant, trying to debug a plugin. Apparently asking for debugging information is too much for PHP and MySQL to bear, so they threw an unedifying tantrum which choked the site.
Now that Catallaxy Files seems to have settled in at the new server, I thought I’d bring you all up to speed on what has changed “under the hood” and what is yet to be done.
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… then you are reading Catallaxy Files on the new server.
Note for authors: You will need to generate a new password. To the best of my ability, your usernames and email addresses are identical to the ones you used to have.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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