Posts tagged ‘upgrade’

MySQL Maintenance: Thur 17 April 22:00-23:00 8 Apr 08

We’ll be doing some maintenance work on the MySQL cluster next Thursday, the 17th April starting at 22:00 and taking around an hour. There will be a couple of seconds interruption to service at 22:00 as we switch between cluster nodes, then a few more seconds as we switch back at around 23:00.  We’ll keep you up to date as usual using the status feed.

The maintenance is to apply some software updates but we’re taking the opportunity to do some MySQL performance tuning at the same time.

Posted 8 April 2008 by John Leach ::: add comment

Ruby 1.8.6 and ImageMagick 6.3 for Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper 20 Mar 08

We’ve backported some packages useful for Ruby on Rails deployment to the long term support Ubuntu Dapper distro.  They’ve been available for a while but it only just ocurred to us this might be useful to others!

Dapper has Ruby 1.8.4 (though labelled as 1.8.2 in the package list) and ImageMagick 6.2.  Ruby 1.8.4 has some known problems that are fixed in 1.8.6 and the rmagick gem recently updated to version 2, reportedly fixing the memory leaks, but it requires ImageMagick 6.3.

We backported Ruby 1.8.6 p111 and ImageMagick 6.3 from the latest development version of Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) to Dapper.  They’ve been in use on a few boxes and no problems so far.  Feel free to make use of them.  We’ll be backporting any security updates as they come.

General details of the repository are here, with specific information about Ruby 1.8.6 and ImageMagick 6.3 on their own pages.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron is due out in the next few month, which brings a lot of this stuff with it.  Some of you might have the luxury of being able to upgrade to it, but some may need to stick with Dapper for a while - hopefully these packages will help you out.

Posted 20 March 2008 by John Leach ::: add comment

Planned MySQL Maintenance: 6 Jan 2200hrs-2230hrs 31 Dec 07

We’ll be doing some work on the MySQL cluster on Sunday 6th January 2008 between 2200hrs and 2230hrs. We’re changing the way the clustering is managed to improve stability and also upgrading to fix some security bugs.During the window you may see two or three brief outages (less than 2 minutes at a time). We’ll keep the status page up to date as usual. If you experience any issues after the maintenance window has closed, please submit a support ticket and we’ll deal with it straight away.

Update: (7 Jan 2007) maintenance went well with only few seconds downtime.

Posted 31 December 2007 by John Leach ::: add comment

New 2GB Brightbox and another bandwidth boost for 1GB boxes 29 Nov 07

Earlier this week we added a new product at the top of the range - the imaginatively titled Brightbox 2048 :)

This new box comes with 2GB of RAM and also has a whole dedicated CPU core at it’s disposal giving an additional performance advantage. The Brightbox 2048 is priced at £220 per month, with the usual discount for annual payments. Check out the full list of specs and how it compares up to our existing rails hosting products →

Also, today, we added *another* 50GB of bandwidth to the Brightbox 1024 product, now giving a total of 150GB/month.

Posted 29 November 2007 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: add comment