Since 02:40 UTC on 15 November, some of our servers in Helsinki have had no network connection. The cause is network hardware: a module in one of our core routers stopped responding, and the switches connected through it went offline with it. Separately, one access switch stopped responding at 22:25 UTC on 14 November, and the servers behind it ... Read More »
From 1.99 € a month, I look after your own server: a VPS at another host, a dedicated server elsewhere, a machine at home. Open a ticket about it, and my helper Pikkumies and I investigate it and do the work. Your first payment also brings 3,000,000 AI credits. I am the sysadmin who runs Pulsed Media's own servers. Väinämöinen Server ... Read More »
A faulty platform update can now reach at most five servers a day, so it meets a handful of servers long before it could reach yours. Last week it went the other way. Our platform build with the new read limits reached 76 servers, 43% of our fleet, in three days, and on three of them it stopped writes until the servers were restarted. The ... Read More »
Starting today, hard-disk servers set their own read limits, at the point where their disks get the most reading done. On three servers where the first limits were tighter than the disks needed, this let 1.6 to 2.4 times more data be read per second. Yesterday's per-account read limits (announcement 725) made small reads on shared disks ... Read More »
