Entries by Mike

Reason to renew your domain name number 241: If you don't, then your domain stops working.

You can imagine our suprise when one day we look at Anytini.com and see a cybersquater website instead. Lots of horrible thoughts run through my head. I consider madly logging into the server to make sure it wasn't hacked. I consider dealing with some fradulent DNS transfer. I read about dealing with those, and it sounds like a pain. The whois output still listed Nick as the owner, but it didn't list our NS servers. After a bit of puzzlement, I noticed that the domain had expired two days earlier.

This isn't the only domain I own with this registrar, and on all the other domains, I get a reminder email when its time to renew. This time, I didn't. This isn't too suprising, because its actually Nick who owns the domain and his email address is listed as the contact. What is suprising is that he didn't get an email either.

Fortunatly we were able to re-register the domain and have everything working again in a couple of hours. Some more investigation revealed that Nick indeed did get the renewal email, but it was marked as spam.

The last Rails upgrade knocked out Typo. But we can't upgrade Typo without upgrading Ruby, which I didn't want to do to anytini.com. For whatever reason, we weren't able to get a working second installation of Ruby from which to run typo, so now its just Serendipity, which seems pretty usable so far. Importing the old posts from Typo wasn't too hard, and now we have blog (and using much less memory on the server than Typo ever could!)

We've gone live! With lots of work, and lots of traffic on over the ssh tunnel We're emailing our friends about the site, and hoping it doesn't become popular faster than we can keep the server from emitting smoke. Early testing shows the server can take some heat, but that there are way too many unique files that need to be loaded. Furthermore, its past my bedtime.