Posted 2010-01-07.
As you may or may not have noticed, the site has been down the two last days. This was not really intentional in any way, but hopefully things should be looking better now. Executive summary: One of my servers blew up. Yay. For those interested in a more detailed explanation, do read on, but for everyone else: There will be another minor service-disruption in the not to far future. The good news is that after this incident I've installed a pretty solid UPS on all my internet-connected equipment, so this shouldn't happen ever again (yeah yeah ). So what happened was that I live in Oslo, Norway. This winter has been cold as heck and everyone is using every electric heater they have to keep their apartments above the freezing point. I was so fortunate that one of the main intake fuses for the apartment actually went to hell, causing all kinds of "funny" power surges. Light-bulbs must have been down at 20% of full strength or something, and there was definitely not 220 volts AC being supplied my servers. After this was fixed, my main router and DNS server failed to start. I've planned to take it out of commission for a while, since it was an antiquated Pentium 3, but that would require me to get more hardware for my main server, the Xeon. With the Pentium 3 now dead, I'd rather spend money on a modern server so that is what I'm doing. Hopefully things are working smoothly enough now, and when I get my hardware refill for the Xeon I will fool around a little more to get a decent setup up and running. With the UPS in place as well, it should be stable for all eternity(tm). We'll see how it works out. Hopefully good
I know Berryz Koubou Beritsuu! hasn't been uploaded for sometime, but I thought I'd let you know anyway that the show in now only on a pay to listen basis now. Basically, no longer a free downloadable podcast.
Looks like some shows haven't updated: Momokos' Puri Puri Princess and Sayus' KonUsaPi.. though that could be because they've moved days. And Aichans' Five Stars didn't get uploaded... though I don't know whether you've got a source for that or not yet.
Kizoku said: It seems to have happened again. :\
Jostein said: Have gone over the queue and fixed up all the things which has been stuck. In about an hours time I expect everything to be up and available.
Jostein said: Sorry about the delay
Have gone over the queue and fixed up all the things which has been stuck. In about an hours time I expect everything to be up and available. Sorry about the delay
Mano Erinas' Mano Deli as well, but sometimes a the shows show up here a few days later than the actual air date. I see the latest KonUsaPi has shown up, so it may be a problem with the Japanese Uploaders the site gets the episodes from.
The Five Stars shows seem to have slipped passed the radar this week (so far). Just thought I'd give a heads up. Hope you're not frozen yet.
wow, so many thing we don't know about the site and it's owner, I didn't know you were from Norway, and that you had those... DNS things in your appartment. Man I live in the tropic near the caribean sea and I'm freezing to death right now, I can't imagine how are you XD
Jone said: wow i think u host this site somewhere else like provider, but u doing this in your apartment...nice ^^ ...well happy new year, have a great year.. yay!!!!
wow i think u host this site somewhere else like provider, but u doing this in your apartment...nice ^^ ...well happy new year, have a great year.. yay!!!!
Glad that things are working out now. Thanks so much for taking the time to keep this place running!! Stay warm and have a great year in '10!!
Heating yourselves takes priority over heating the servers into operating temperature. Much appreciated for maintaining the backbone of everyone's fancy. Wrap those puppies up in something warm. And make sure to at least keep yourselves above zero. Happy new year...
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