lj_maintenance

New LJTalk Server

tupshin wrote in lj_maintenance Jul 29, 2009 21:53

We have replaced the somewhat unreliable LJTalk Jabber server with a new one. The new one is based on ejabberd (http://www.ejabberd.im/Read more... )

jabber, ljtalk

MemcacheD Update

mhwest wrote in lj_maintenance Jul 16, 2009 14:17

Just wanted to let everyone know, that a new version of MemcacheD has been released. We will be rolling this out to the memcache nodes during the week of July 20th to 24th. This should have very little impact on the stability of the website; however users may see a slight increase in load times as the cache is re-populated with entries.

The software ( Read more... )

memcache

User cluster

marta wrote in lj_maintenance May 28, 2009 11:54

I'm posting here 'cause Ops/Eng is a little busy. This morning one of our user clusters just... fell over. This caused a plethora of error messages and some journals to be completely unavailable. The issue was resolved in less than an hour, and we've switched to the slave while Ops works on it.

Edit 12:40 p.m. PST/19:40 GMT: there have been a ( Read more... )

LJ Maintenance: Memcache Upgrade (16:00-24:00 UTC / April 28th and 29th)

mhwest wrote in lj_maintenance Apr 15, 2009 17:07

Hello LJ,

** Edit, had to push back a week due to shipping delays :( **

Just wanted to give our users a heads up, that next week we will be performing work on our memcache tier. During this time, you may experience a little wait time while loading up journals and communities. We will be monitoring our website health and response times closely to ( Read more... )

memcache

Network Maintenance - April 4, 04:00 - 07:00 UTC/GMT

dwell wrote in lj_maintenance Apr 02, 2009 01:05

EDIT@6:12AM UTC

We're done with our work. No downtime or network drops were detected! Happy! All your positive thoughts definitely helped out! Please tell us that the site seems faster (even if it doesn't), cuz you know, I get needy when I'm away from home. :D Seriously, if you see any problems that are out of the ordinary support is the best way to ( Read more... )

LJ Maintenance: Feb 4, 05:00 - 07:00 UTC/GMT SECONDED

dwell wrote in lj_maintenance Feb 03, 2009 18:59

EDIT@07:34 UTC/GMT ( Read more... )

Network Maintenance: Feb 4, 05:00 - 07:00 UTC/GMT

dwell wrote in lj_maintenance Jan 30, 2009 15:25

This isn't related to ONTD, that saga is still continuing.

Time converter here. Find your city and watch what day it is since for those of us in the USA it's actually going to be on Tuesday night that the work wil occur ( Read more... )

Minor database maintenance -- ONTD!!!1!

dwell wrote in lj_maintenance Jan 28, 2009 23:01

EDIT@03:03:03AM UTC/GMT (7:03PM PST): Hey, I was having a Westmalle last night with my dinner when I was called, so that's probably why I rambled more than usual. I'll try to be more sensical tonight. is that even a word? sensical?I think a wise man once said, "you better check yo'self before you wreck yo'self" or something along those lines. ( Read more... )

Network Maintenance: Dec 17, 2008 02:00 - 04:00 UTC/GMT

dwell wrote in lj_maintenance Dec 16, 2008 10:14

EDIT3: Maintenance for tonight is done as of December 17, 0400 UTC/GMT. Thank you everyone! Since the right parts didn't come in, we'll try to do the final bit of maintenance tomorrow. Even though we're having the parts overnighted I'm not sure when exactly they'll arrive. Once they arrive, I'll put up another post but it'll probably be within ( Read more... )

Hotmail success and notifications caught up

tupshin wrote in lj_maintenance Nov 28, 2008 12:52

It was a little later than we originally were led to believe, but yesterday Hotmail did unblock our new IP addresses and the floodgates were opened. Over the next 10 hours or so, we delivered upwards of 800,000 mails just to Hotmail, in addition to our regular load ( Read more... )