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Entries Tagged as 'Supanames'

Why I was offline

March 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology

The upgrade was not the cause of being offline – it was the solution. The hosting deal I have for this site assumes a fairly low level of activity – thats why it is so cheap. As such it is fine for me because I don’t get a huge number of visitors and, not being […]

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What’s going on?

November 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology

At about 8pm or thereabouts I lost connection to this server. A few minutes ago it all came back again, but I find that 3 posts I wrote this evening have disappeared. I can only assume the server crashed and there was some sort of restore from backup. If that is the case then they […]

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Back again

September 25th, 2006 · Comments Off on Back again · Technology

Those periods of downtime got a lot more frequent and a lot longer over the weekend, and even when the server was up it was so slow that it might as well have been down. Up to 5pm today I had registered 5 visits, and I am amazed that those 5 managed to get through. […]

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Downtime

September 15th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Technology

I have noticed this site being unavailable a few times, so I am unable to access it to manage stuff or write new stuff. It is happening often enough for me to now consider it an ongoing problem rather than a one-off incident, although the downtime only seems to last for short periods – less […]

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One thing after another

May 8th, 2006 · Comments Off on One thing after another · Technology

I don’t know what happened there. It looked like the server at Supanames was down for about 10 hours, which is a little inconvenient. A shame it was not co-ordinated with my power cuts.

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New Address

March 1st, 2006 · 6 Comments · Technology

This is the first proper post at the new address. All the old posts are still available in the archives, but only a month at a time. I can’t import them because Supanames do not have CURL enabled on their servers for so-called security reasons. 90% of linux hosts out there have CURL enabled with […]

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