Hi all,
the rack where the server is placed had a short power outage, but the server came up fine after that, but due to the way I configured it (each site running in a chroot environment) I have to run a small script after reboot to ensure the database connections work - which I forgot all about.
Thanks to Tom for reminding me :-)

/Lennart

Clubarnage has now been running on my hosted server for well over 20 years (!) - and I guess partly because of the very restricted ay I installed and safeguarded it, it has to date not been compromised - though it is now quite outdated, and due to hardware fragility, I don't dare applying updates and reboot too much, until aI have a replacement server ready.

I deemed it due for replacement several years ago, we found a Dell PowerEdge 1950, and I personally forked out for some tasty 10k rpm SAS disks, and got it delivered to the hosting-center (in Copenhagen)  ... only to see it explode at an unfortunate power event (together with several other servers at the same place). I think its Disk controller was already a bit fragile, so when the power was unstable due to a faulty diesel generator, it expired.

I have since sourced yet another server, this time an HP 360 gen7, and transported it to the hostingcenter during a road trip where I was fetching my grand piano from Denmark anyway :-) ... and I am planning to move everything over "sometime soon" and upgrade everything in the process. I will announce this closer to the date so you all know.

It is worth to mention that the server is hosted in one if the best connected places - the Danish Internet Exchange -  (that was the reason we moved it there, as ClubArnage reaches far more than UK, and this place was far better connected) - and since I used to work there, it has for the last 10 years or so been hosted in our "skunkworks rack" - for free!, and I hope to keep it that way.  This is my contribution to the charity

These days, one can host such services many places in "The Cloud (which really just is "somebody else computer") - but this way, we are providing our own "cloud" and we have complete control. I like it that way.

/Djet aka Lennart

Hi all,

I have today upgraded the forum software to version 1.21 - let me know if you find something odd.

--
Djet (aka Lennart)

The old server finally hit the wall today - I believe its power supply is to blame.

The good news is that we have a replacement server racked and ready next to it, but the bad news is that since the old server was actually working (be it with some performance issues) I have simply not had time to actually setup this new server to be in  a state were it could take over production.

Today, after the old server rebooted itself many times, and finally disappeared off the radar, I was then forced to scramble and try to make the new server available. You may have seen my blank "OUPS" message presented by every site on the server)

Anyway, one of the problems I was facing was that all the data on the old server IS backed up, but the backup is with me here privately, which will take a long time to upload ...


LUCKILY, the old server sprung into life some time later, and for now it is actually serving all websites again.

I have started a copy of all data, and will continue working on setting up the new server (I want to use a much better and modern setup compared to the old, so it is not just a direct copy)


Regards - and sorry for the outage !

D'Jet - aka Lennart Sorth

Hi all,

Clubarnage.com was unavailable for several hours, as the frontend reverse-proxy (varnish) had crshed in a way that prevented it from restarting, and I was asleep :-)

All well again now

Lennart

Hehe - yes, obviously it's backed up. My biggest worry was turning it off and on, as the hardware has developed some odd behaviour (one of the reasons bs I have also today installed a newer server which we can move to at some point.)

The move went smoothly, and I was quite proud that it would not took about 6 minutes (!) - however, I then forgot to run a manual script to make the database available from within the security containers - this I only remembered hours later - sorry about that.

All should be back in business again now.

/Lennart

Sorry for the late notice, but the hosting company wants to physically move the Club Arnage server this afternoon.

It should only take as long as it takes to walk from one room to the other with the server under ones arm, then reconnect and fire up. (fingers crossed)

I expect it will happen around 1pm GMT

/Lennart

By all means, celebrate all women in motor racing, but throwing in free skincare, nail varnishing and exfoliation is so patronising and sexist it is beyond ridiculous and works against the whole idea.

To apply a few patches, I had to reboot the server this morning - I hope I didn't disturb anybody.

/Lennart

That seemed to work OK

Maybe GF simply needs to "get a Mac", that simply works ? :-)

:->

/Djet

GF seems to have problems starting a new post, - so I just try myself ...

/Djet

wot ? - why are you posting empty posts ?





Sorry - I **said** I had poor humour
:-)

Hi All,

I have just upgraded the forumsoftware to the brand spanking new 1.1.15 version (bug- and security-fixes)

Forum looks to be working ok.

But as usual, let me know if something is not working right.

Lennart/Djet

Maybe interesting? Punctures... Bearing in mind that the cars spent an hour behind the safety car there seem to have been a lot of punctures, mostly involving rear tyres and LM GTE cars. It maybe it is because in some places the gravel runs right upto the track and if a driver just puts a wheel off the circuit the sharp gravel maybe causing the problem.

Djet (on behalf of Jox)

You have probably seen the Audi.v.Ferrari accident by now on YouTube and yes, it was as least a big as it looked. It was a strange one ... how and why did it happened. McNish really had been flying during the opening hour and was looking impressive. There was no shortage of speed here! Then it all went wrong, big time. The #1 Audi appeared to slow behind the Ferrari, maybe to let McNish by, but what ever happened it was boxed in and couldn’t even consider passing the Ferrari, McNish however was on a mission and some reckon he went for a gap that wasn’t there, Ulrich says the Ferrari turned in. Whatever... but McNish and Beltoise touched and the Audi headed over across the gravel trap at a helluva pace. It got sideways before it hit they tyre wall which may have been a good thing because had it gone in headfirst it would have hurt even more. The Audi then reared up and as it disintegrated it looked as if it would flip over the barrier and land on the group of photographers who were standing there. It didn’t and they were lucky, none were injured, it was a miracle.
The Marshalls tipped the Audi over, extricated McNish and he walked away from the biggest accidents we have seen in years. He was a lucky lad.
The Ferrari was able to drive back to the pits and is back in the race. McNish went to hospital for further checks...

/Djet - on behalf of Jox (he is busy)