Maintenance
All articles categorised as Maintenance.
Website maintenance: 16/17th October
Friday, 12th October 2018
My new hosting provider (blog post on that coming soon!) has notified me of 2 maintenance windows next week:16th October, 22:00 – 02:0017th October, 00:00 – 00:30The first window specifically targets the VPS platform, and will see my server powered down and migrated to new infrastructure.The second window will see an upgrade to the core network adding additional capacity and DDOS protection.This outage will affect:andysh.ukphotos.andysh.ukapps.andysh.uk (web and git…
Server maintenance – 1st/2nd November
Wednesday, 26th October 2016
My hosting company, Memset Ltd., have advised me they will be performing important maintenance work on their Miniserver platform.This maintenance is to apply critical security patches to the Linux kernel of the physical servers that host the virtual servers like mine – that power this website.It is taking place between 22:00 GMT on 1st November and 04:00 GMT on 2nd November. My server will be down for 15-30 minutes during this period.This affects my:personal website/blog (this…
Overcoming anxiety
Wednesday, 30th September 2015
I struggle with anxiety of varying degrees. Sometimes it just stops me having a good time with new people because I’m worried about what they make of me, other times it takes hold over weeks or months, ever-present at the back of my mind.This weekend was one of the latter. For over a year, the burglar alarm at our new house hasn’t worked. We tried everything. The only solution was to rip it out and replace it.Sounds simple, right? The only problem is that as soon as you remove the mains…