LightSpeedTaco

Its been a busy week here but it’s all paid off. The webpage is now fully optimized using Cloudflare and Amazon S3 CDN making for quick load times and minimal page size/HTTP requests. Also, I added a secondary CNAME DNS entry, hopefully that will ease some of the pressure on the primary DNS servers. Please let me know if you notice these changes or if you run into any problems feel free to contact me. LightSpeedTaco

The local database folders where Plex moves around and organizes content however nothing was lost. Please Wait until the status page updates or check back here in a few hours to see if I’ve updated this post. LightSpeedTaco Update – The server is back up and pretty well fully functional with the exception of some information like posters for some movies which I will fix later today. Update 2 – The indexing and information gathering is mainly done. Please report any issues via the contact page. Update 3 – The Web server experienced issues yesterday night but is fully functional again. The downtime was only about two hours. Enjoy

Well heres the scoop. A few days ago the server mysteriously decided to catastrophically fail resulting in the container (VM) requiring re-imaging with a fresh install of Cent OS 6.5. Once the server was re-imaged, I had to use a old full backup rather than an incremental as they all failed. So I had to upload a backup I had of all the files and databases however with some content including the proxy missing. Its been busy here but I finally put enough time into restoring and optimizing everything so things should be stable. Amongst the casualties we have the SSL cert from StartSSL, the Minecraft server, and the Teamspeak server. In time I will restore these things. My apologies. Regards, LightSpeedTaco

Amidst the hail of server re-images peace was found in the form of CentOS 6.5 Final as the OS of choice for the No Breaks Team. I’m comfortable with its file system structure and the bash of course makes sense. The whole idea of having root access to a server albeit a virtual server is something big to walk up to. I think I’ve gotten the hang of the basics as root(god) through my education. I know the dos and don’t s of server administration. The site and server should be stable this was basically a check in that we are alive and kicking.

It feels fantastic to actually have a server in which I have root access. Prior shared hosting was awful and limited so extremely I could barely do any projects I want to get my hands on. Now with full root access both SFTP and SSH I am one happy camper. I removed the chatbox as it added significant load time to the webpage with all it’s javascript. I will either simply post my little bits as needed or look for a news ticker type form of communication used mainly for site or server maintenance. I’ve also been considering a mailing list which will indicate when, why and how long the server will be down, however a quick look at the site will clarify all. As always, available by the contact me page. LightSpeedTaco