mee.numee.nu2018-08-04T14:50:14ZPixy Misahttp://mee.nu/atom.xmlServer Maintenance Complete2018-08-04T14:50:14ZAll the work is done and we are happy and healthy on our new server, ready to start the next round of software...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/server_maintenance_completeSorry About The New Site Glitches2018-07-30T09:47:07ZWe switched database servers last night, and a config entry got lost somewhere, and as a result users couldn't post new blog entries or upload files. Pages loaded, commenting worked, even editing existing entries worked, just those two things. The person responsible for sacking the person responsible for sacking the person responsible, has been...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/sorry_about_the_new_site_glitchesSorry About The Site Glitches2015-03-29T00:39:00ZOur statistics database filled up. This wasn't immediately obvious from the logs, and since it was due to a size limit being set too low rather than running out of server resources, it wasn't obvious from the state of the server. It's been addressed now, the server processes have been restarted to clean up any hung connections, and all should be well with the...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/sorry_about_the_site_glitchesWhere Did My Blog Go This Time?2014-05-14T13:45:00ZThe server exploded. And I mean that literally. Parts of it still haven't been found. We had to restore from backups and individual magnetic monopoles retrieved from the crater using portable atomic force microscopes. Or possibly our RAID controller failed and wiped out our main drive array and we had to manually recover the crashed databases and restore the virtual servers from off-site backups. But frankly, I think it...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/where_did_my_blog_go_this_timeWhere Did My Blog Go?2012-07-06T09:02:05ZThe first question to ask yourself is, are you a spammer?* If you are, that's where your blog went. If not, sorry! Contact us at help@mee.nu and we'll get you sorted out. * If your blog contains text like "Preheat the oven to 450 college diplomas.", then you're either a spammer or a...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/where_did_my_blog_goPardon Our Dust...2012-04-04T10:23:00ZAs we do a little spring cleaning, get rid of the mothballs and the cobwebs, and - bunny!! In the coming months we'll be sprucing up the site from top to bottom, or possibly from bottom to top, from server hardware to site designs. Stay tuned for further updates, same bunny time, same bunny channel. So much spam to zap. Sigh... <sings scansion=awful>Two hours of zapping spam / buys a one-way pass on the uptown tram / I'm a blogger of means by no means / Pix' of the road.</sings> There, much better! Easter Minx by the wonderful Chelsea...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/pardon_our_dust...Planned Downtime - 1AM CDT 28th August 20112011-08-27T04:15:00ZWe'll be taking a short outage at 1AM CDT this Sunday to swap out the drive that failed during last weekend's power outage. Should only be about 15 minutes. Update: Took a little longer than expected, but maintenance completed...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/planned_downtime_-_1am_cdt_28th_august_2011Very Unplanned Downtime2011-08-20T23:33:00ZI was supposed to be in a conference session on hosting Python web applications right about now, but we had a drive failure, which caused a server reboot, which caused a lengthy filesystem check, and when that was done we tripped over a network configuration problem (unnoticed previously since the server hadn't been rebooted in nearly 18 months) and then found that some MySQL tables had been corrupted by the crash and needed to be repaired. Oh, and the shared filesystem for user uploads was offline too, which made the blogs look a little spartan for a while. Which has...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/very_unplanned_downtimeHappy Fireworks Day2010-07-04T09:07:34ZWherever you are....Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/happy_fireworks_dayPeriodicity2010-06-17T02:45:00ZThe Grand Unified Minx Theory The mee.nu User Domains The Minx Components (Reposted from an earlier entry on my personal...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/periodicityDrowning In Toys2010-06-15T16:16:00ZOur Adobe CS5 update arrived at the office today (we run their Design Premium suite), and we also got our copies of Microsoft Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, and Expression 4 through Microsoft's Bizspark program. On top of that, we have a new Intel X25-M SSD for our development server (to match the array of X25-E SSDs in the production server). So if you don't hear from us for a couple of days, look for us under that big pile of install disks in the...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/drowning_in_toysComing Soon to a mee.nu Near You2010-06-15T08:38:09ZIn order to get Minx 1.2 out the door, we've bumped some planned features out to future 1.3 and 1.4 releases. That still leaves a lot of goodness in each release, and we think you'll really like what we've cooked up for you. We'll be doing a detailed rundown on all the new goodies in coming weeks, but here's a quick list of what we have planned for 2010: Coming in 1.2 New tag support New search & filter engine New messaging & microblogging system New data export system New media player New thumbnail and slideshow support New site content...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/coming_soon_to_a_mee.nu_near_youIntroducing Our Servers2010-06-13T11:00:00ZOur server lineup has changed quite a bit since my last update on this topic, so here's a little rundown on the machines that power mee.nu today. The aircraft carrier of our fleet is Aoi.* Aoi is a dual-processor hex-core hyperthreaded Xeon 5670, for a total of 12 CPUs and 24 hardware threads. With 24GB of RAM, 3 x 2TB drives and 3 x 32GB Intel SSDs in RAID-5, Aoi runs eight specialised virtual machines handling various tasks for the mee.nu and mu.nu ecosystems, including the main blog hosting platform. Our destroyer escort is provided by Midori and Momoko. These...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/introducing_our_serversThanks For 100 Million Hits!2010-06-10T03:36:37ZAlthough things have been quiet for the last year or so, and we're yet to migrate some of the largest blogs we host over to Minx, we've still managed to rack up over 140 million page views and 50 million file downloads. Sorry, I don't know how many uniques that is (though uniques will be counted in Minx 1.3). Let's just say, lots....Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/thanks_for_100_million_hitsPlanned Maintenance - Saturday 12 June 8AM GMT2010-06-08T14:41:00ZWe'll be offline for about 20 minutes on Saturday morning (late Friday night for most parts of the US) to do some database maintenance in preparation for the rollout of Minx 1.2 - mostly adding new indexes. Update: Maintenance completed...Pixy Misahttp://mee.nu/all/all/planned_maintenance_-_saturday_12_june_8am_gmt