Why Stikked has been down recently.

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