Friday, July 24, 2009

Intermitten down time

I am working on backup issues, and there maybe some intermittent downtime.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Backup

I am running the backup.

I am close to figuring out what was causing the problems with the automated script, and so should have a scheduled backup ready to go soon.

I was thinking around 4 am EST, let me know somewhere if you disagree.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The loop continues

Backup again, then off to bed.

Here is my random/fun fact for tonight: Google drives about 5 times the traffic to our site that yahoo does. Windows live does about a third of yahoo. Other random search engines barely register.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Backup

This is getting repetitive right?

That's not a bad thing since the only other reason I would have to post here is something worse has happened. I am working on redoing the automated backup scripts, they were causing some problems, and until that is done the backup is manually done before I go to bed. Which is why it is not at a set time...yet. I will get it all automated soon enough and there will be a set "known" time.

Fun fact for the day: Wednesday and Thursday are by far the most popular days for RationalWiki. Saturday is the least. Almost twice as much traffic flows through on a Wednesday compared to Saturday.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Rinse Repeat, backup alert

Nightly backup is running once again.

Fun fact of the day: Less than 25 percent of RationalWiki visitors used Internet Explorer to view our site for the month of June. Almost 10 percent of our traffic comes from Linux operation systems. Not your average web surfer!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Guess what? Backup time!

Nightly backup is running once again.

It will make the site inaccessible for probably 10-15 minutes, and then a little slow for another 10-15 minutes. Everything should be back to normal in about half an hour.

Fun fact of the day: The text of our little wiki is now over 10 gigabytes in size. That's a lot of "talk talk talk talk" people!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Backup time again

Nightly backup is running once again.

It will make the site inaccessible for probably 10-15 minutes, and then a little slow for another 10-15 minutes. Everything should be back to normal in about half an hour.

Fun fact of the day: A google search for "esther hicks scam" or "esther hicks fraud" now returns RationalWiki's Esther Hicks article as a top rank. It is bringing in about 50-100 hits a day. Esther has a habit of attacking her attackers, maybe something interesting will come from this?

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Backup time

Backup script is running, said script will make the site inaccessible for 5-10 minutes, assuming nothing goes wrong.

Edit:

Backup done, everything should be back to normal till tomorrow. Night guys!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Welcome, and all is well

Just adding filler, everything is working nicely.

Here is a few interesting notes that people may or may not be aware of:

*RationalWiki runs off of a cable modem connection, with about 1000 kbps upload speed. Our dedicated IP address costs me an extra $30 month which is our only real "per month" charge anymore.

*RationalWiki now has two computers dedicated to it. The first is the main server, an Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.2 GHz processor, 2 gigabytes of ram, and 300 gigabytes of space. The second is a Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz processor, 1 gigabytes ram, and 100 gigabytes of space. The second machine is dedicated to hosting bots that run on RW. At the moment it is running wpbot, stubbot, and capturebot. If anyone has a bot they would like run on our "bot" server just let me know and I can check it out.

*Thanks to recent fund raising efforts we do have power backup finally. Which is a great thing since for most of June the fuses to my room were frequently blown. Luckily, you guys were saved the majority of it thanks to our battery backup.

*Our on site backup system is protected from fire and theft by being locked in a small fire proof case drilled into my floor, connected via a USB cable drilled in a hole in the back of the case.

*External peripherals, such as monitor, keyboards, all salvaged from equipment being tossed out of my lab. This includes the second "bot" machine that was just recently setup.

And there we go, that should cover an obligatory "content" requirements for the opening of a blog. Bookmark this site and refer back to it during periods when the site is inaccessible. If I am I aware of the problem and working on it I will post here.