Archives
- 2010.07.26: whetstone reboot
- 2010.07.17: rebuilding a disk on branch, expect some slowness
- 2010.07.16: problem on stables... up domains are OK, down domains stay down.
- 2010.07.06: dish reboot
- 2010.07.04: knife froze up hard and was rebooted
- 2010.06.28: hamper to be rebooted shortly
- 2010.06.25: Please comment on the first draft of the prgmr.com privacy policy
- 2010.06.24: roadblock in getting an ARIN allocation
- 2010.06.21: I messed up hamper when I was at the co-lo
- 2010.06.21: DoS in the he.net fremont location
- 2010.06.21: robe network driver
- 2010.06.20: network problems at SVTIX
- 2010.06.17: sorry about the early past-due notices
- 2010.06.15: on logging serial consoles.
- 2010.05.29: crock reboot again
- 2010.05.23: Knife reboot
- 2010.05.20: ungraceful reboot of crock
- 2010.05.07: Hamper threw a disk, expect IO to suffer
- 2010.04.30: becoming 'business grade' - also, dealing with abuse
- 2010.04.11: Network interuption in the Freemont data center
- 2010.03.28: knife reboot
- 2010.03.16: ~1hr network outage on branch due to forcedeth funnyness
- 2010.03.14: forward looking statements
- 2010.03.09: Horn (and the VMs on it) will be rebooted shortly
- 2010.03.09: Horn (and the VMs on it) will be rebooted shortly
- 2010.02.24: the next server will be limited to 512M accounts and below
- 2010.02.22: bad disk on robe; expect perormance problems
- 2010.02.14: (short) network outage at SVTIX, midnight, 2010-02-13
- 2010.02.10: Chris and I will be speaking at the local ACCU meeting tonight.
- 2010.02.07: sloooow disk I/O on horn due to bad disk
- 2010.01.31: IPv6 router upgrade at SVTIX
- 2010.01.03: partial network outage last night
- 2009.12.30: stables and birds going down for update and move
- 2009.12.30: hydra rebooting shortly
- 2009.12.30: boar.prgmr.com going down shortly
- 2009.12.29: (short) downtime on hydra, stables, birds and boar - tomorow
- 2009.12.29: ~20 min network outage today
- 2009.12.29: lion rebooting for kernel refresh and a move
- 2009.12.09: prgmr.com network outage tonight
- 2009.12.02: rebooting cerberus to replace a bad drive. Ugh. never again sata_nv
- 2009.11.23: IPv6 RA blocked in Fremont
- 2009.11.05: do pci-express post diagnostic cards exist?
- 2009.10.18: Xen domains not starting up.
- 2009.10.14: emergency network maintainince (also, upgrading to gigabit)
- 2009.09.11: provisioning delay
- 2009.08.28: Birds will be rebooted on Monday at 4pm PST
- 2009.08.24: I/O hang and unplanned (unclean) reboot of girdle
- 2009.08.05: birds back up after unplanned downtime.
- 2009.08.04: problems with billing (or, this is why I send invoices rather than direct billing)
- 2009.08.04: IPv6 router advertisements are down at the old he.net location
- 2009.08.03: all down users have been assigned new IPs
- 2009.08.01: hm. the DoS looks like a Syn flood.
- 2009.07.31: outage for customers on the 74.113.30/24 block
- 2009.06.23: apples, the new server, is up.
- 2009.06.13: rebuilding disk on stables
- 2009.06.07: see, this is why I don't assume you are stupid.
- 2009.05.30: adding users on the new servers in the rippleweb location.
- 2009.05.23: 2 new servers will be up at the rippleweb location soon
- 2009.05.16: we will have new hardware up soon
- 2009.05.09: new (old) prgmr.com SysAdmin
- 2009.05.08: monitoring latency/availability of bull.prgmr.com
- 2009.05.07: problem logging in to bull.prgmr.com fixed
- 2009.05.07: New support person starting tomorow
- 2009.05.07: provisioning progress
- 2009.05.05: double billing
- 2009.05.05: Current servers full
- 2009.04.25: some sort of networking problem at the freemont location
- 2009.04.22: billing issues
- 2009.03.22: problems on stables- oom killer errors
- 2009.03.14: the necessity of Kool-aid
- 2009.03.14: Charity and advertising
- 2009.03.07: how to stop your firewall from timing out your ssh session
- 2009.03.01: Co-location in San Jose: My plan.
- 2009.02.23: I broke dhcpd
- 2009.02.01: how to manually authenticate a mediawiki user email (also authentication for book.xen.prgmr.com now works)
- 2008.12.16: network outage of 1 hour
- 2008.11.17: Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful
- 2008.11.15: never again
- 2008.11.10: downtime and reboot for users of Hydra this friday night
- 2008.11.09: Maintainince planned on Friday the 14th of November
- 2008.10.29: SSD vs. SAS vs. SATA
- 2008.10.13: how to reset a MandyLion brand password token to factory defaults
- 2008.10.03: GNU screen for collaboration
- 2008.09.30: issuing credits tonight for Sept. downtime
- 2008.09.30: pre-payment discounts
- 2008.09.30: scheduled downtime. 30 mins. starting 20081003 at 22:00 PST
- 2008.09.21: rdns for 216.218.210.65/27 fixed
- 2008.09.20: has anyone experience with SVTIX?
- 2008.09.13: the NetBSD images are no longer a lie, sortof.
- 2008.09.06: rebooting hydra and lion
- 2008.09.05: more unplanned downtime.
- 2008.08.17: Coloma reboot.
- 2008.07.31: IPv6 RDNS setup
- 2008.07.29: unplanned reboot of coloma
- 2008.07.08: IPv6 by accident.
- 2008.07.01: http.xen.prgmr.com and wiki.xen.prgmr.com moved off of tahoe
- 2008.06.28: drive performance problem solved
- 2008.06.15: new server status
- 2008.06.12: New server will be up Thursday evening
- 2008.06.11: traffic shaping: yet again.
- 2008.06.10: traffic shaping: round 2
- 2008.06.09: lvm mirroring is supported and widely used.
- 2008.06.06: traffic shaping with tc and xen.
- 2008.06.03: New rdns policy
- 2008.06.02: price cut- for customers willing to move to the new server
- 2008.06.02: Snort IDS installed.
- 2008.05.28: freeSide billing up- Accepting new signups now.
- 2008.05.17: NTP on Coloma (and in general)
- 2008.05.13: Debian users: change your OpenSSH public key files
- 2008.05.13: in which luke is very clever.
- 2008.05.05: intermitent network problems 2008-05-05 8:00-11:00 PST
- 2008.04.30: only insane people would want to fly.
- 2008.04.26: problems with paypal subscriptions
- 2008.04.26: mirroring LVM tested
- 2008.04.12: redundant array of crappy disks.
- 2008.04.11: the hardware of prgmr.com.
- 2008.04.11: Data recovery: frozen peas aren't only good for skinned knees
- 2008.04.02: bulk e-mail
- 2008.03.30: xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
- 2008.03.22: payment methods
- 2008.03.22: debian kernels working
- 2008.03.22: Ubuntu images
- 2008.03.02: Use strong passwords
- 2008.03.02: movable type is up and working