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Add me on SphinnSo yeah, my site was down for almost 24 hours…great. I had an INSANELY busy day and didn’t even have time to check to see that the blog was even down. I get home at 2:30, see about 50 IMs letting me know that the blog is down, and then call up MediaTemple. Just had to simply reboot the server, I must have gotten a traffic rush somehow and it forced the server to overload.
My bad, I’ll have to write up a good post now to make up for it or something…
January 9th, 2008 at 3:34 am
No idea if you have an iPhone or anything but if you do you can reboot your MT server through the new beta service they offer.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Check out http://site24×7.com/index.html they email you the second you sites goes down…
January 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
make sure you send it to a different email…
January 9th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Hi there,
its a real pain when that happens. I take it you’ve got a dedicated server? Well this happened to me, but it started it happen about once a month and I had to get support to reboot the machine to bring it back on line. This must have gone on for about a year, and finally my support guy pulled the box to bits and did some tests – faulty motherboard…
Just thought I’d give you the heads up if it keeps happening.
Normally a massive rush of traffic should never crash a box (at least Linux) – the process might die, but it should ways recover.
Anyhow , keep up with the top posts – and good luck.
cheers
Wayne
January 9th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Yeah, I use Pingdom – email, text message, or an actual phone call when your site goes down. Good service.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:43 am
A sudden traffic burst is definitely challenging as far as your server is concerned to say the least, one of your articles may have received some social media attention.
Personally, I’m using the wp-cache plugin and, thanks to my great host, have experienced no problems, even after hitting the Digg frontpage.
Alan Johnson
January 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Congrates on getting comments and emails on an obvious observation post.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
did the landing pages go down? that would be rough…
January 9th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Thank God no. I host them all on a separate server which was fine.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hey,
I’m surprised Media Temple doesn’t monitor your server for you. I’ve always heard great things about their shared “cluster” technology. I assume you have a stand alone server. Oh well servers go down… Get a monitoring service so you’ll be notified in the future.
Keep up the Great Blogging!
Wyatt
January 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Hey,
I have a simple linux service thing that automatically reboots httpd and mysql services if they go down.
If you’re on a dedicated and want it let me know!
Email me: jon {AT} thanvolk.com
Thanks,
Jonathan Volk
January 10th, 2008 at 8:58 am
honestly your server should be setup to auto reboot after not responding for a preset time… as 95% of time reboot fixes any of the issues.