Capybara.Org

Well, the new drive that iWeb installed failed as well. They put in a new one this weekend, and things should be back to normal. Please let me know if you find any problems!

So, the server was getting slow on the weekend. A check of the logs showed that the disk was failing. I filed a ticket with iWeb (our ISP) for them to check it out.

A couple days later (after escalating the ticket and logging in to poke around) they replaced the drive.

The new drive had a fresh OS install, and they connected the drive back to the system so I could recover files from it.

You probably didn’t notice anything other than a few hours of downtime… and everything should be back the way it was. If you’re running into any problems, or find anything missing, just let me know!

Sun JDK 6u11 and ant have been installed! They should be on your path.

If you’re getting a lot of spam, you can filter it.  SpamAssassin already detects the spam and clearly tags it for you… You just need to do something with those tags.

1. Click on Filters in SquirrelMail.  
2. Click on Add New Rule
3. Make a rule like this:  Header | Subject | contains| [SPAM]
4. Choose an action of “discard silently” or “move to folder”
5. Hit save!

Enjoy!  There are more ways to filter spam… take a look at full header of an email sometime and you can see all of the wonderful headers that SpamAssassin puts in your mail.

I also added a plug-in to let you change your password from SquirrelMail.  You’ll find it on the Options page.  CentOS has some pretty paranoid default password restrictions, and I have no idea how t change them yet.  But you should be able to come up with something more memorable than the random one I generated for you.

The IMAP migration tool that I used may have left your new mail folders in an unsubscribed state.  If you think you’re missing some folders, log into SquirrelMail, click the Folders link at the top, and use the subscribe/unsubscribe tool to subscribe to all your folders!  You win!

I’ve moved everyone’s files and mail.  You should have everything you had before.  If you don’t, please let me know ASAP.

Sieve (mail filtering) scripts and squirrelmail addressbooks/settings are the last thing I have to migrate.  I just have to figure out how to do it.

Most users will have the mail and files back now.

The rest of you should have it soon, hopefully by the end of the day.

Things are going very well, and I’m happy with the new server. Thanks iWeb!

Well, UltraHosting sucked.  Don’t go there.  At least, don’t use their VPS service.

Capybara is now hosted in Montreal on a dedicated server at iWeb.  It’s way faster, and hopefully it will be way more stable.  We also have more bandwidth, better support, and all sorts of other goodies.

I’m pulling stuff across from the UltraHosting machine, and then I’m going to turn it off. 

Mail is already migrated, and your files will be along tonight.  Then I’m going to continue where I left off moving stuff from the old miso, which is sitting on my coffee table making lots of noise.

Due to some problems at the current host, I’m working on a better option.  This will involve migrating things again, but it will be faster, easier and smoother this time.  I’ll keep you all informed!

I got the Rotate This RSS importer/feed generator working again. For those of you who were using it, enjoy!