Sep
27
2007

Apologies for tonight’s groovyblogs outage…

Yes.. Well.. Tonight the server that hosts groovyblogs literally “let the smoke out”. I guess three years of 24×7 operations was too much for no-name whitebox hardware… but it was a stellar effort (I think it was around 250 days of uptime when I last checked).

Anyways… I’ve restored the postgres backup from the night before to some lower end hardware I had lying around… so there might be a little weirdness and slowness until I sort out a replacement.

Took the opportunity to upgrade Glassfish v2 final. My various demo webapps will come back online at time permits.

That was four hours of work that I wasn’t planning on… but it’s almost all back to square. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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  • And we’re back online again…
    This time with a brand new server: an iMac Core Duo 2. That should give us plenty of horsepower for the forseeable future.

  • Ping me if we can do something to help including donating the resources needed to power groovyblogs.org.

    (Yes, we use Grails.)

  • Hi Glen,
    I’d be very interested to know where you host your grails sites. I’m looking for good Grails hosts for my future Grails app. Thanks.

  • Hi Hou, all of them are hosted from home.

    Now running on a iMac 17″ Core Duo 2, but used to run fine on an old whitebox PC running Linux (albeit much noiser and a little slower).

    I’m using Glassfish v2 final, and it’s running just great.

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Glen Smith

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Co-author Grails in Action