We were slashdotted today after our woeful story of Verizon made the front page. A basic WordPress install is very bad on server performance, and the fact that our public facing pages are all static means our web server wasn’t quite up to the task. But after some tuning and static caching, we’re in better [...]
Posts on ‘October 4th, 2009’
Redundant Switch Fault
On Saturday evening (September 3, 2009) we experienced a short general outage caused by our DNS and SQL cache pool servers rebooting. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but the PowerDNS Recursor package didn’t start at boot time, and a lack of DNS meant a general lack of anything useful taking place. It was odd [...]