Sunday, January 19

Geek

A Minor And Temporary Inconvenience

Well, everything went down.

The hosting company running our front-end server (separate from the application and database) got a complaint due to someone creating a scammy blog on the software and disabled the entire front-end server.

No data lost, everything fine, except that nobody could reach any of the sites.

I immediately zapped that site and anything that looked similar, and I've created a temporary front-end server while waiting for service to be restored, and manually routed the blogs I could remember are being actively used quickly to the new server, and things are working again.  (I could route everything to the temporary server, but I'd rather not, for...  Reasons.)

Running double-offsite backups just in case somehow bad things propagate to the other datacenter.  Which shouldn't be possible but anyway...

Update: All sites should be back up, so I need to start scrubbing the database for any more crap.  The most obvious ones are gone.  Also the temporary server is still running so if something happens again we can quickly come back up with just a DNS update.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:47 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Hurried changes to DNS... What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Zendo Deb at Sunday, January 19 2025 09:28 AM (13Jpj)

2 Yeah.  What indeed?

(Fixed now though.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, January 19 2025 10:45 AM (PiXy!)

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