| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
| 5:28 pm |
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| 3:11 pm |
New FIOS router installed
I installed the new FIOS router today. In between the bloodletting and the cussing, Squidge.org was disabled for about an hour. All is fine with the world as of now. Walter Current Mood:  excited |
| Sunday, October 25th, 2009 |
| 5:25 pm |
BEWARE!
Okay - we have an issue. Four times today the FiOS router that controls everything here at Squidge.org has reset itself to factory defaults. This means whenever it does, it means that Squidge.org is unavailable. I am trying to fix this as it happens. However, if it occurs when I'm away, Squidge.org will be down until I am back. Verizon is sending me a new router. When that happens, all *should* be fine. Current Mood:  frustrated |
| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 |
| 10:28 pm |
my fault!
I hit the wrong button and took the firewall down for about 15 minutes. Sorry! |
| Sunday, October 4th, 2009 |
| 4:28 pm |
Firewall reboot
Squidge went down due to a misconfiguration of the firewall. Good thing, too, because it showed me that I had accidentally routed the networked power switch through the firewall instead of straight to the router. Couldn't remote boot with that set up! All should be well now. And sorry for the delay - was working in the yard. |
| Friday, August 7th, 2009 |
| 10:38 pm |
Everything is back up and running
I have the firewall up and running - everything should be working like a charm. Please let me know if you are having any problems. Walter |
| 5:25 pm |
Firewall down
Need a new hard drive. Doing that and dinner. All of squidge down until tonight. |
| Monday, July 20th, 2009 |
| 1:03 am |
Listserver updated
I moved the database aspect of the listserver (where users and admins are logged) to the database server from the listserver itself. This is done to help lessen the impact of the mailing list server, which has had the CPU utilization pegged at 80% to 90% for the last few weeks. This should help some of the problems seen with the listserver. If you notice anything, please let me know. Thanks |
| Friday, June 19th, 2009 |
| 5:19 pm |
One more time
Okay - New firewall in and I'm configuring it. I can get out, but I want to make sure other people can get in and have access to everything. Ping me please! :) |
| 4:50 pm |
Firewall issues
That's why the server farm for Squidge was down - firewall problems. Have a spare PC that I'm going to hack into a firewall to replace the one we have, but in the meantime we're up and running without a firewall. |
| 3:38 pm |
Squidge is up?!?!?!
Okay - everything but firewall is up for me. I can see everything inside the firewall, but need a report that someone from the outside can see squidge.org, please! |
| 3:04 pm |
All of squidge.org going down for 15 minutes
Brand new powerswitch that I've been trying to put into production for a while. Well, it's going into production now. That means I have to turn all servers off in order to move their power. Shouldn't be longer than 15 minutes downtime. |
| Thursday, June 18th, 2009 |
| 9:38 pm |
A word about Squidge.org
All, You may know, you may not - humor me. Squidge.org started back in 1994 as an X-Files/David Duchovny mailing list. From day one of Squidge, I have done this as a passion; as something that I love to do. Now fifteen years later, we are still going strong. It's still just me, with my beautiful husband thrown into the mix on occasion when I'm on the road (which is a lot of the time). Squidge.org is a series of 4 servers (web server, mailing list server, database server, and firewall server) and supporting hardware that's in our garage on a business FIOS line. Sometimes things go awry. I try to keep up with the regular maintenance and keep on top of things, but we all know how life can get. Sometimes you're buried and just can't get to it. I've got some preventative measures that I put into place, but they are often not enough because as soon as you fix one thing, you go away and then see something else occur from afar. Fun, eh? I'm not a professional hosting company; never have claimed to be, and never will be. I'm NOT going to charge anyone a dime for the hosting that I do. At the same time, I hope that people understand that doing this as a passionate hobby does mean it has to take a backseat to some things. Thus the backlog on getting the new remote boot put into place, etc. Sometimes I end up snuggled with my hubby on the couch instead of ass-deep in a server backup solution, etc. It happens. All in all, I think that in the fifteen years that I've been doing this, I have gotten one piece of hate email for downtime - and that was probably five years ago. I don't expect, nor have I gotten any more. I am simply writing this so I can let people know I'm human, there will be failures, and that though I am trying to make them less and less common, they will happen. Be well. Walter, Owner Squidge.org |
| 9:36 pm |
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| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 |
| 3:52 pm |
All Squidge.org back up
Power issue resolved, then bad-boot issue. Beautiful husband fixed system after bad boot. All is right with the world (for now - *knock wood*). |
| 12:18 pm |
Power out
Power issues so all of squidge is down. |
| Friday, May 15th, 2009 |
| 2:15 pm |
Squidge is BACK!
Okay - I apologize for the further delay from an ETA of Thursday night Pacific time to now, but there was an unavoidable issue. As of right now, Squidge.org is up and running. I'll be checking a few things, but everything should be fine. Maybe a little slow, but fine. Walter |
| Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 |
| 7:47 pm |
Squidge firewall update
Okay folks - I've done all I can remotely. Unfortunately, that means that Squidge.org is going to be down until Thursday evenings (about 48 hours more from the time I post this) when I get home. I've put other safety measures into place for being able to fix most issues remotely, but this one is a new one on me. My apologies! I just wish that we didn't have to protect so much from hackers... Walter |
| Monday, May 11th, 2009 |
| 2:20 pm |
Firewall down = all of squidge down
The firewall did an automatic upgrade to some new software overnight, and it didn't go so well. Squidge.org is down - all of it - until I can get the firewall back up and running. No current ETA. Walter |
| Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 |
| 7:06 pm |
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