There was scheduled maintenance work carried out on the servers hosting The Danesh Project these past 2 days. The servers were getting new IPs and better infrastructure.
The outage was planned for the 22nd but somehow the hosting guys got the notification mails mixed up which explains why you did not see a post from me regarding the outage beforehand. The notification mail’s subject line read 22nd but the mail body stated 23rd. My mind was set on the 23rd. See below.
Subject: Shared Server ***.***.***.*** IP Migration on 22/12/2007 at 8AM (GMT+8)
Dear Customer,
Please take note that we will be performing IP migration on 23/12/2007 at 8AM (GMT+8). This means that we will switch IPs for the server. After the steps taken, there will be 5 to 10 hours of downtime period and propagation.
If you encounter any problems after the IP migration, please reply to us in this email.
Alternatively, you may submit a ticket to us at https://247livesupport.biz/.
Thank you.
247 Ticket Support Department
- http://247livesupport.biz -
Well, I guess it was a genuine mistake that I would have made myself under pressure but what got to me was the 30hours outage that was initialy suppsed to only be 5-10hours. Apparently the DNS servers were propagating slower then expected.
Good thing is the site’s back up with improved performance now and I have my smile back.
Finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1 today. Needed quite a few tweaks here and there but everything seems to be holding togather now.
Over the next week I’ll be fine tuning the functionality side of things so expect to see some errors. Learning the whole new Tags phenomenon now 
For now these are the plug ins I have running on my shiny new WordPress installation.
- All in One SEO Pack
- Cforms II
- Defensio Anti-Spam
- FeedBurner FeedSmith
- Get Recent Comments
- Google XML Sitemaps
- My Dashboard
- Related Posts (Will be replaced by Simple Tags)
- Simple Tags
- Sociable
- Subscribe To Comments
- Tag Suggest Thing
- Ultimate Google Analytics
- WordPress Reports
- WordPress Reports Most Active Widget
Raja, my buddy for the past 6 years is now part of The Danesh Project. We started off working in the same company for about 4 years and now have moved on to different places but our passion or Linux,open-source and beer keeps the friendship going.
Raja is new to the the blogging arena so I thought this would be a good place for him to get started. He will primarily be posting about Linux, open-source, IT news and occasionally some local news from Malaysia.
Raja’s first post : Fedora 8 Officially Released
Welcome Raja
Woo hoo!! The Danesh Project is now PR4.
Need to check your page rank? Go here.
My blog was experincing some outage last night. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The IP block my site belongs to was experiencing heavy DDOS attacks so the data center was forced to bring down the specific network range till the issue was resolved. Official response from my hosting company below,
Update on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx Experiencing Connection Issues
Hi,
We’ve got the latest update on this issue. Currently upstream of data center is blocking the IPs which are determined to cause the DDOS attack. Once the data center receive notification from upstream confirmed the blockage, they will release these 2 blocks of IP.
However, it might takes hours in investigation, configuration and testing between upstream and data center. Thus, we appreciate the understanding and patience while waiting the issue to be resolved.
Thank you.
Regards,
livesupport
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx Experiencing Connection Issues Resolved
Hi,
Glad to inform that xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx Experiencing Connection Issues has been resolved. If you still having connectivity issues to your website, VPS or Server, do submit us a ticket attach with tracert and ping result.
Thank you for being understanding and patience during this hard period.
Regards,
livesupport
