Server Updates and Downtime
Posted on the 23rd of September, 2007 at 7:36pm
If you tried to access our sites in the last two days, you may have found that they were unavailable, or broken... This is because we were doing a lot of cleaning and updates.
I uninstalled a lot of unwanted programs, and installed a new virus scanner, which found a few trojans and a lot of adware. I also updated the firewall (the old one was really playing up) and updated PHP and MySQL.
We're running the newest versions of these now, as opposed to before where we were running MySQL 3.2... PHP should also run faster, as it's now installed as a module, instead of through CGI. Still, we need a faster pipe to take advantage of it...
The eventual goal is to move the server over to Fedora, but there are some things we need to sort out first.
You may have also noticed that I updated the tab bar at the top of my site. I based it off the tabs in the K2 Wordpress theme, and I think it looks much better than before.
