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. . . and we’re back.

There are still more things I need to do, (memtest, adjust clock speeds, remove drives after sync, probably some stuff I’m forgetting) but I am not going to intentionally take sites off-line again until I have the previous system working again so I can switch over without incurring downtime. NO MORE DOWNTIME.

New Years’ Resolution for 2013? 99.9% uptime. I’ve done it before, and I can do it again. It’s just a matter of not failing to think.

Next up: I’ve finished reading Games People Play and will be blogging about it. However, I’ll be adding a large section to the wiki before doing so.

There’s still basically nobody reading this, so ok sure fine whatever. (Which reminds me, I need to get Subversion up and running again. So much to do!)

Until next time.

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Well, that was fun . . . NOT.

About 38.5 hours of solid downtime. The computer that has been hosting these sites became completely erratic in its behavior and I was frankly uncomfortable turning the thing on anymore. I went out and bought parts and build a completely new system–no used components at all, which is a first for me–and right now have hobbled back on-line by adding the hard drives from the old system and am booting off them.

This would never work with Windows.

There will be more downtime today and tomorrow while I’m figuring out how best to transfer all the data onto the new machine in a way that makes sense. Linux is still kinda rough around the edges when it comes to software RAID, large hard drives and partitions, and GPT.

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More meaningful benchmarks on APC

The site I benchmarked the other day is a Dokuwiki site, wiki.naptastic.com. I discovered today that it’s possible to totally disable caching for Dokuwiki. The first thing I wanted to establish was whether disabling caching in the configuration file was enough to make it ineffective, or if the cache had to be cleared out afterward. (The site seemed suspiciously responsive after I changed the configuration.) My thinking is that turning off caching would make for a more meaningful test, since each PHP process would have to do so much more than just fetching and serving a file: it now has to parse and process a bunch of stuff.

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