Comments on: AjaxLife restored

By: KJ

KJ — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:37:59 +0000

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!! I cannot say it enough! You’re the best Kath! Now I’ve just gotta get past this time out problem I’ve been having… it logged in twice earlier, but now I just keep timing out. Guess it’s overloaded at the moment.

/me gives you a big hug.

By: Rheta Shan

Rheta Shan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:30:10 +0000

If you are still stuck in traffic one and a half hour after leaving school, the only thing that surprises me is that you get around to do anything at all. Knowing Paris traffic, I can tell you I know what you are speaking about. Again, I bow to you.

By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:15:10 +0000

It’d be more accurate to say that by the time I’m in a position to do things like setting up a monitoring system, I’m too exhausted to do anything.

There’s been excessive traffic recently. Since sitting in vehicles makes me tired and causes headaches, it’s probably not suprising.

Still on my way home. *yawn*

By: Rheta Shan

Rheta Shan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:27:35 +0000

Well, most people I know probably wouldn’t call regular manual restarts, through a remote connection over a mobile phone at times, the � lazy � way to do it . But I know how you can get into the habit of fixing things regularly until you lose sight of how they could work if they just took care of themselves. It’s not something I can claim to be immune against, by the way .

Whatever you chose to do about it, I just want you to know how grateful I (and I think I’m speaking for a lot of other people here) am for all the time and effort you invest in AjaxLife. If there is anything I can ever do in return, do not hesitate to tell me. Hugs.

By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:16:53 +0000

I check the spam filter whenever the number currently being held changes. So it’s not really an issue.

The server could probably monitor itself – it’s just a case of me being lazy. I’ll add that to my list of things to look into over the weekend.

By: Rheta Shan

Rheta Shan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:11:03 +0000

Of course, the server can hardly monitor itself for crashes, you need some separate process (/me rolls her eyes at her own stupidity).

By: Rheta Shan

Rheta Shan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:06:05 +0000

And your school schedule goes way to explain why the upstream error message seems to persist though my core ofice hours (what with me being on the continent, 5 p.m. are gone over here before you even have the opportunity to restart the server). Another mystery elucidated .

But, I’m still wondering (and forgive my entirely non-technical mind for having inappropriate ideas, if that is what they are), couldn’t the server somehow monitor itself, or be monitored by an external service / daemon, for the � upstream � condition ? It seems to me that effecting manual restarts following � waaah it crashed � mails would be a royal pain in the, ahem, lower back (/me sends a short fervent prayer to the gods of Akismet).

By: Rheta Shan

Rheta Shan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:56:38 +0000

And 4 minutes to go . Ta a lot for restarting.

By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:53:53 +0000

That said, I just restarted it. My phone quit complaining.

By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:42:39 +0000

Actually I do restart it when I get “waah it crashed” emails – but only when I’m in a position to do so, which I’m generally not while at school.

That said, I’m aware it’s currently down. Attempts to restart it so far are bring blocked by the school’s firewall. And my phone seems to be refusing to
cooperate with my remote access setup for some reason.

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