This blog is now dead many of you probably noticed that a while back but I’ve moved to a tumblelog, wordpress was just way too much for me. So hopefully this will encourage me to post more often… hopefully. So check it out and update your feeds the new url is: blog.benmcredmond.com!

It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post and as Stikked has been down twice in the the last week I thought I’d write a post on that…

Last saturday Stikked was down. What happened? Well something started paging out loads probably mysql. Then mysql crashed and finally the whole server crashed. I still have no idea why this happened.

Stikked has been very slow since the latest update, there are some code fixes I’ve made which will be pushed shortly I also made some server side improvements which caused Stikked to be down yesterday:

1. I replaced Ubuntu Server with Debian on the Stikked VPS. (This shaved off quite a lot of RAM)
2. I installed and configured mod_deflate to gzip all html, css and javascript. This halved the size of the page download.
3. I also setup monitoring tools so next time Stikked goes down, I will know straight away and have more information to determine what happened.

Have a nice day, Ben

I just had to share this inspiring video.

Enjoy