dogfrog5 MySQL upgrade

July 28, 2011

MySQL services on dogfrog5 will be sporadically unavailable while we upgrade the MySQL instance from 4.x to 5.x. Update: The upgrade work is complete. If you experience any issues with MySQL or your website, please email support@whitedoggreenfrog.com

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dogfrog3/spike issues

July 8, 2011

Update Saturday 8:15pm: resolved: all sites should now be up and running on new server Friday: Dogfrog3 has had issues all day due to disk errors and software RAID errors; the disk rebuilds but then hangs when pending changes queue up (this is new behaviour; pending changes used to “write-through”). 11pm: We’re currently rebuilding the [...]

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Dogfrog 5, 6 & 7 network outages

June 24, 2011

There was a short network outage on Aussie HQ’s end earlier today (between 11:59am – 1:00pm) and it looks like it’s happened again (4:02pm). We don’t expect it to last to long. There may be some network instability during the rest of the day; networking loops at our data centre are shutting down network switches. [...]

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2011/03/27 Server move for dogfrog7

March 25, 2011

We’ve been advised by our datacentre that one of our servers (dogfrog7 / “Tarkyn”) is scheduled to be relocated between the hours of midnight and 8AM, Sunday 2011/03/27 AEDT ( 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday March 26, 2011 GMT). The downtime for the server is estimated to be two hours during this window. For [...]

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Exim / MySQL issues on dogfrog4.net

March 15, 2011

We’re experiencing issues with an unexpectedly large volume of spam email on dogfrog4.net, resulting in MySQL experiencing memory issues and sites relying on MySQL access being unavailable for up to 30 minutes. We’ve taken down incoming and outgoing email on dogfrog4 for now while we clear out the backlog. Update 11:45 am: SMTP has been [...]

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2011/03/06 Server move for dogfrog5, dogfrog6

March 4, 2011

We’ve been advised by our datacentre that two of our servers (dogfrog5 “Minka” and dogfrog6 “Bstar”) are scheduled to be relocated between the hours of midnight and 8AM, Sunday 2011/03/06 AEDT ( 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday March 5, 2011 GMT). The downtime for each server is estimated to be two hours during this [...]

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2010/12/05 MySQL Maintenance on dogfrog3

December 3, 2010

Due to a need for maintenance on MySQL on the dogfrog3 server, we will be taking MySQL down at approximately 10:30pm on Sunday December 5 AEDT (11:30 AM, Sunday December 5 GMT). We expect the upgrade work will take around 1 hour to perform, and we expect it to improve performance and make MySQL more [...]

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