:: 2008 28 August :: 10.50 am

Andy is calling for help up in Cedar Springs. I have a lot of drywall and crap to throw in a giant dumpster. And I still have a bunch of drywall I need to tear down still, plus then try to tear up all the carpet.

Any help in carrying stuff to the dumpsters would be appreciated. I'll probably be here until 8pm. 86 N Main.. Next to CarQuest. Big '86' in the front window.

I have the dumpster until Tuesday but some people are a little pissed about it so if at all possible I'd love to get most everything in the dumpster and see if I can't get it picked up on Saturday.

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:: 2008 6 June :: 8.54 am

The same server as last time is acting up again. I'd assume the hard drive is on its way out, but the way it's acting it seems to be a heating and cooling issue.

I shut it down for a while, blew into the front of it on the hard drive.. Finally got it running again (for a little while).

I've got the AC turned on up here now. It seems to work fine, but it's going to take a while to get the entire floor cooled down. It was 81 in the one room this morning.. So probably like 90-100 in the server room? I don't know.

I don't have a power cord for the laptop anymore until the new one comes on Monday.. So, I'm about to power down here in case I absolutely need my laptop for something before then.

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:: 2008 27 May :: 12.23 pm

It appears there was downtime from 8:30 until now. I was sleeping, sorry.

The dns/email machine freaked out. Why this affected everything like it did, I don't know. Maybe I need to raise my expiration times on the DNS records. That's all I can figure.

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:: 2008 5 May :: 1.56 am

Yay for lame new sites. I just switched the DNS records over to the three TC machines instead of the main web machine so the site might not load for everyone yet, but should for most people.


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I feel like there's massive possibility that I overlooked something considering this site is quite easy and basic.. Yet it's been a work in progress for amost a year, and things come together very chaotically here in the end.

Long story short, let me know if you run into any bugs.

Facebook version to come.. eventually.

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:: 2008 13 April :: 9.47 pm

New main Woohu page.

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:: 2008 3 April :: 6.38 am

Issues.. Issues. Life is funny in the fact that the power only went out at my house ONCE in the entire time I've lived there.. and now the power keeps going out.. Not only there, but in Cedar Springs as well. I woke up 50 minutes after the power went out and came back on.. but fell asleep again. An hour later to get a call from Shane saying everything was down.

It's been a battle to get everything back up. But I'm almost there.

The only good news in this is that due to everything being down when I got here anyway, I was able to get my new battery backup installed. When I test it, it says I have 12 minutes of back up.. So hopefully that should cover these recent hiccups in power in the area. And if I'm on top of a longer outage.. There's still nothing I can do I suppose because I don't have a generator yet. ;)

The only problem with the test, and it's gotten better with each test.. Is some of the TC machines go down, but the router is on that backup and it sucks a lot of power. Only one TC machine is going down now when I try it. Which isn't much of a big deal. The MAIN stuff, switch, database, dns, and main web all stay up. OF course, with no router they're worthless but the router seems to be fine on every test.

I'm going home and sleeping now. If you find problems, comment..

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:: 2008 22 March :: 6.38 am

Power went out in Cedar Springs. Go figs. Never goes out until I get the servers there with no backup power whatsoever. Even just the small ones would have helped this very short outage.

Anywho, it was all preplanned. I never leave AIM open all night, but tonight I did, with my laptop right next to my bed. Then if I leave AIM open, why would I leave the volume on? I don't know, but I did. Jessa randomly decided to IM me at 5:30.. 15 minutes later THE ONLY thing in my house to lose power was my air purifier in my room. I would have never noticed it if I wasn't awake and sitting right next to it.

There's no reason for a power outage way out here at my house to mean anything happened in Cedar but I immediately loaded up the sites.. They were all down. Came back up on their own a few minutes later but a couple servers weren't responding so I drove into town anyway. All but two (TC servers) came back up on their own. And they all went down because I had to restart some stuff on the email server when I got back home.

So anyway, it was cool only having to drive a total of 12 miles roundtrip to do something with my servers... Instead of the near 2 hour drive there and back down to the old data center. However, such a simple power outage would never happen at the old data center. Har. (Though, that's not true. Just a few months ago a critical server crashed and I had to drive down there. I got there and fixed the problem, but 5 other servers (TC servers, so I didn't notice) of mine were POWERED DOWN! Somebody knocked out a power strip)

The roads are really bad out there. The main intersection next to my house had slide marks everywhere, and several new ones just in the 15 minutes from when I first left to when I came back. The curves on 18 mile had more slideoff marks than I've ever seen it have before.

And now I return to sleeping.. And maybe I'll go buy some cheapo (yet still retardedly expensive) battery backup power strips tomorrow.

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:: 2008 20 March :: 5.21 pm

Well, everything is up and running here at the Cedar Springs location. Almost everything. The 4 rather critical servers are up, and then I've got 3 of the TC servers up. I want to get the other 5 servers up (6 actually, but one is having network interface issues) too but I don't want to push the power situation any further. I need to get the backroom finished and get an electrician to wire up a beefy power source.

If you can't reach the sites, you obviously aren't reading this, but you'll just have to wait it out. Everything is working exactly as it should and you need to wait for your internet provider's dns records to refresh and point you to the new IP addresses.

It's very exciting to have all of the servers here 6 feet from me, and to be able to go plug a monitor into each and every one of them any time I want.

Yay.

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:: 2008 18 March :: 8.39 pm

Alright, so this is a heads up. All of my sites will start having 'issues' sometime from tomorrow until the weekend. That's not to say they'll STOP having issues by the weekend, but they'll START having issues somewhere around that time. I'm thinking tomorrow.. or Thursday.. I suppose I could push it back until Friday.

I will be removing the servers from their current data center, moving them 45 minutes north and placing them in my new offices. Obviously the move itself (unmounting 13 servers, transporting them, and remounting them) will take several hours.

Then I will need to reconfigure all of their IP addresses, since all of the IP addresses are changing.. And hopefully everything should work. But I'm sure there's going to be a config here and there that I forget to change. PLUS, it's going to depend on how long it'll take MY DNS servers, and the DNS YOU are using.. to update all of the information and start pointing you in the right direction. Finally, it depends on whether or not my T1 lines here are going to perform as they should or not. I worry, because sometimes it seems like they don't. But it might just be the wireless router I use for my laptop.

Eventually once things get settled there will be more downtime as I move the servers to a permanent location (yet to be started or finished) in the office.. But that shouldn't take too long and I'll do it at like 3am anyway.

Also, if there's storms and the power goes out or something.. That will be a problem since I don't have automatic backup power. I plan to get a generator, but it still will require me to know when the power goes down, and to drive to the building. Yay.

Big exciting changes.

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:: 2008 16 March :: 3.44 pm

Yeah, that's right. This is on a real door on the front of my building:

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