The portion of the city in which the melon.org server operates has been experiencing a severe brownout (there's enough electricity to run the furnace fan, and a few compact fluorescent light bulbs, but no more) since the ice storm on Thursday night/Friday. Consequently, the server is down for want of electricity. The electric company is not ( Read more... )

websited and email hosted at melon.org is working again.

Due to failing storage hardware (probably a dying disk controller) the melon.org server has been brought down to minimize data loss. Repairs are planned for this evening. The server will also be physically moved during this outage, cancelling the downtime scheduled on Thursday for the move. Websites and email hosted on the server will be ( Read more... )

ambrosia.melon.org will be down for maintenance tomorrow (Wed., Oct. 3) morning between 9am and 3pm EDT to have its disks all rearranged and the OS completely reinstalled. Actual downtime is expected to be a few hours, as I don't have a spare server to pick up the slack while this happens.

ambrosia.melon.org will be down for a short while in the next week or so while some new disk is installed and set up. Owing to the busy schedule of my *ahem* colo provider (i.e. dancer_flight's closet) *cough*, I can't say for sure when this downtime will happen, but it'll probably be in the evening and last a couple of hours. During this time melon.org ( Read more... )

In order to reduce spam, greylisting was implemented on the melon.org mailserver earlier tonight. During this upgrade, the mailserver was down for about a minute or two (during which time mail to melon.org may have bounced). Also, you should now expect brief delays in the delivery of some of your email to melon.org as the greylisting does its job.

Candy Cane was moved from the Marina to the Club earlier today. My website has been updated to reflect this change.

I have moved Candy Cane back to her Winter mooring. My website has been updated to reflect this.

i am now married, and adequately recovered from wedding-fatigue to make this post. more information will follow in a later (locked) post.

melon.org mail service is up and running again. things are not yet fully recovered, but look to be almost fully recoverable, and are working well enough to use again.