I just wanted to delete a skin from neger.antville.org, and boof - the whole weblog was gone. No need to restore it; it was just a testing field for skins anyway, but I thought I'd better report it.

I'm not sure which skin I was about to delete (wanted to reset the whole thing to zero), but I think I clicked the "delete"-button twice (nervous finger).

I've got antclick running on linux - now for the stupid question: How do I shut it down?

I also have a problem when uploading images, the request is always timing out. Does anyone know a solution to this?

Thank you!

when trying to upload images I am still getting error messages and upload fails:

"Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, antville@helma.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/1.3.26 Server at antville.org Port 80"

thx for having a look at this.

I updated antville.org to the current CVS snapshot. Sorry for the outage that was caused by that update. As usual, new code, new hope.

Among the more visible changes, the Antville Blogger API is working again. In fact, I'm posting this using w.bloggar via Blogger API. Posting via Blogger API now supports getting the user's weblogs, getting the user's recent posts for each weblog and posting a title by including it within <title></title> tags in the posting's body. Tools like w.bloggar support this. It's cool, check it out!

One downside to the update is that Keeping track of story read counters had to be disabled. It just caused too much database traffic (also see my previous posting). That means that from now on, you won't see any changes in your mostRead pages, at least as long as we get the new server.

Looks like we have a problem with the scheduler on antville.org. A grep from the access log:

[2003/02/06 13:48] antville:internal:scheduler 333 marked, 0 inserted, 333 updated, 0 deleted in 898358 millis [2003/02/06 13:56] antville:internal:scheduler 248 marked, 0 inserted, 248 updated, 0 deleted in 455056 millis [2003/02/06 14:04] antville:internal:scheduler 93 marked, 0 inserted, 93 updated, 0 deleted in 473335 millis

Possible problems are DB write performance or concurrent write locks. I'm investigating...

I ordered the new, future antville.org Server the other day. The picture above shows what it will look like on the inside. After lots and lots of thinking and discussions with people with lots of experience running big server racks, I decided to go with a bigger 2 unit server instead of a 1 unit model. The reason is that 1 unit rack servers are tightly crammed and usually have significantly reduced lifetime compared to spacier models. They also lean towards thermal problems, and they are less extensible. People also reported reliability problems with products from major vendors like Compaq, Dell, and IBM, which led me to think that I could just as well go with a minor vendor as long as the components are first rate and built to run. Which is why I went with german server discounter Thomas Krenn, which offers significantly more bang for the buck than any other vendor.

Here are the specs:

2 HE Dual Rack 4000, IDE and Dual CPU Tyan Thunder LE-T mainboard with ServerWorks ServerSet LE chipset 2 x PIII-S 1400MHz Processors 2048 MB ECC Registered SDRAM 3ware 7500-4 IDE RAID controller 4 x 60 GB IDE harddisks 2 x redundant 300 W power supply extractable rack rails CD-ROM drive

The price is 3447,41 Euro, so we already have the necessary amount of money. There is however a possibility that we will have additional upcoming expenses of a few hundred Euro. If this is so, I'll let you know. For now, there's no need for additional funds. Thanks for everybody who contributed!

sollma hier noch spenden für die neue hartware?