Thursday night’s outage

Jun 13

How-To Guides David No Comments
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Okay so what the heck happened to the site on Thursday night?

caution-signIt all boiled down to running out of storage quota on my server. My server account had crept over its quota limit without me knowing. Things were still working like this, but since WordPress 2.8 (the software that runs this website) came out on Thursday I ran the upgrade, and then we hit problems.

Anyway, lots of technical details later storage quota was extended and the site was put back as it was, and subsequently upgrade to WP 2.8.

Why am I telling you all this? Well the moral of the story is that no matter what you’re doing – keep backups of everything you do! Had I not had backups of this site, it would be trashed now. Moreover, had my backups been better organised, the site would have been up several hours sooner.

I’ve now improved my file backup procedures to be automatic so they’re always up to date. Fortunately, I was already using a WordPress plugin which e-mailed me a daily backup of my database.

Make sure you keep your stuff backed up too.

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WordPress 2.7

Dec 21

Website Updates David No Comments
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If you didn’t know, I don’t write this site by hand ;-) I have open source software on my webserver called WordPress. Recently the latest version, 2.7, of WordPress was released, and along with it are some fantastic new features.

I upgraded this site, and foreverfifteen.com (which is a site I help out with), and also installed it as-new for my good friend Rachael Eldritch-Böersen, on tweeduizendzes.nl. Manually upgrading was rather intimidating, seeing as I had not done it before, although it seems that it was the first and last time I’d need to do it, because with the advent of WordPress 2.7, it can no upgrade itself when new versions are released.

Anyway, without further ado, you can sit back and releax and watch a video to tell you all about WordPress 2.7.

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