Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Apparently there's some sort of problem with the hard drive. I haven't seen this before. The server keeps resetting randomly and after booting back up, the OS complains about disk errors. fsck marks the drive clean, but after a short while of uptime, the server just resets again.
If anyone has any suggestions, please send them to feedback AT daypop DOT com. Otherwise, I might just reinstall the OS and start from scratch.
Monday, October 31, 2005
Daypop ran out of hard drive space last week and I didn't catch it in time. After archiving the data and freeing up the space, I've had problems with the machine just rebooting randomly. Hopefully things will be back to normal in a couple days.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
You may notice that the front page has an ad now and so does the RSS for the Top News page. I'm not sure, but this may be history in the making since I don't know of any other RSS feed that has a Sponsored Link.
Daypop has just received a large ad order and this is an effort to run the ad campaign while it's still fresh (it would take forever to run its course otherwise) and get great exposure for the sponsor.
The Top News RSS feed happens to be a highly targeted method of advertising -- what else? -- RSS feeds since anyone reading the RSS presumably is news aggregator friendly!
This brings up the issue that most of Daypop's bandwidth is used up by people grabbing RSS feeds. There is an order of magnitude more hits on the RSS than there is on the HTML. I brought up this issue before with Tara from ResearchBuzz. The HTML page views, where I can serve ads, were subsidizing the RSS. I anticipated back then that I might need to insert ads into the feeds. While this was not completely necessary from a bandwidth/income standpoint (since Daypop was doing OK with the help of donations), I thought it'd be a good idea to help spread the word about the sponsor's RSS feeds considering the large order. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep the RSS ads around after this campaign.
Thanks to the sponsor, Daypop's bandwidth bills are taken care of for the next year.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
I've been archiving the Top 40 and Top News pages for awhile now but the URL was not well known and there was no interface to it, just a directory listing of html files. Now there's a simple interface to help navigate history.
Check out the first Top 40 page committed to the archives. This is what was hot over two years ago:
http://www.daypop.com/archive/top/2002/03/22/1800
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Server kept resetting last night
No idea why. I'd go away and come back and it'd be reset. I received the CD-ROM from Dell today and it was able to read the 4.9 install disc so I've done another clean install and gotten Daypop going again. Still some things to clean up but that can wait until later tonight.
I don't know if this was the cause of the RAID errors, but I read that MySQL 4.X needs different libmysqlclient.so versions which may or may not be used by the Perl DBI modules. To play it safe, I installed MySQL 3.23 (what Daypop used to use) and cleared the database. I'm going to give this a try.
The new OS is causing some problems (RAID errors all the time) so I decided to try installing 4.9. Except the CD-ROM is completely dead now, and so is the floppy (so no chance of booting into kernel and installing over the net). I'll have to wait for the new CD-ROM drive from Dell. Hopefully it gets here tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
I've finally gotten Daypop running under the newest version of FreeBSD and MySQL! There is still data from the old database that needs to be brought over, such as the advertisements, but that's going to have to wait til tomorrow night.
In the process of rebuilding the server. There's a crazy amount of configuration that goes into getting Daypop up and running again.
Monday, February 16, 2004
I've complained about Dell's customer support before, about the endless hot potato where I talk with practically everyone before ending up back where I started, but tonight I had a good experience calling Dell's support line and I thought I'd make a note of it.
The support technician asked me a couple questions, didn't have me do things that I told him I had already done (in effect, trusting me) and troubleshot the problem. Not only that but he dispatched a new part to me just in case this one turns out to be faulty. That's what I'm talking about.
Having problems reading the FreeBSD installation discs. Older versions (4.4) of the install discs work but newer ones burned on my new DVD-RW don't. I'll have to try burning some discs at work tomorrow.
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