Sunday, March 3, 2013

I never update this, do I?

Long story short, we had some issues recently with hardware failing. Luckily, SOMEONE had backups lying around and we got it back up and running in virtual environment. Unfortunately, that system also choked itself out - I blame the shoddy desktop machine I installed it on. (I was in a hurry, okay???) Given that all of my sites were down, I started digging through my pile of machines in the garage. The ones that I told my girlfriend, "No, babe...don't toss those. I might need them someday." See? I was right. Right now, it appears that we are on a semi-stable platform, hardware-wise. I'm watching it like a hawk and have a few monitoring tools running to keep me appraised of its current status. Some of you may have noticed that there is a new streaming webcam feature. It's just a stupid gimmick at this point, and I'm currently sucking up to you guys a little for my recent failures. :) All that being said, there are still a couple more issues coming up in the next couple of days, but these are PLANNED. First off, we are getting the line to the house upgraded, so on Monday night, March 4th, there will be a window of about 4 hours (give or take) where the site will be offline. I will also be moving the server to it's new permanent-ish location at my desk. I don't expect a whole lot of issues, short of getting the new router configured for port forwarding and maybe updating some IP addresses internally. It should be fairly straight-forward. (Knock on wood, if you feel so inclined...) If everything goes as planned, we'll be back online late Monday night/early Tuesday morning. Thanks again for all of your continued patience. It gets better.