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Uptime Records

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

This makes me happy – to have 99% uptime over 3 years or so.
It also makes me sad – to have missed out beating my previous record.

chris@omicron ~ $ uprecords
# Uptime | System [...]

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Omicron Upgrade

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve been noticing that my virtual server (omicron) has been frequently using over 80% of it’s available memory. This is likely due to the fact I started hosting a ruby on rails application (redmine) which means another set of processes (mongrel cluster) running the whole time in addition to what’s [...]

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Moved Blog Host

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

I have moved the hosting of charcourt.com over to omicron. I no longer need the hosting at 34sp.com since I have my own server. There’s nothing wrong with 34sp, in fact I would recommend them if anyone is looking for low cost hosting.
I’ve also taken the opportunity to change themes on the blog. The new [...]

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VM Server Get’s An Upgrade

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Since I’ve started to use my VM server (omicron) to host a lot more services lately I’ve noticed that it’s been struggling to cope with the load. Memory seemed to be the problem. It was probably a bit ambitious to run 6 virtual hosts with PHP and Python as well as Subversion and MySQL.
So, I’ve [...]

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