The MacDeskBlog

I’m sorry for 12-24 hour downtime Thursday night/Friday. Someone set up a new server using the same IP address, which triggered some serious problems. Then, to make matters worse, I had an obscure misconfiguration in the server which took me about 10 hours to identify. Ultimately, I had to switch an ‘off’ to ‘on’ in a Mac OS X Server specific configuration file (“/etc/mysqlManager.plist”) which I didn’t know about. You learn something new every day. And twice as much when something blows up in your face.

Fundamentally, I didn’t test the server thoroughly enough before I put it into production. I should have uncovered this problem then. Oh well.

A special thanks goes to Eric Swinson of Visual Seed who is recovering from surgery yet still managed to mobilize resources to identify and resolve the IP conflict. Eric provides the Mac mini which hosts the site. The image server didn’t have any problems, and for that I also thankful to Eric at Import GSM.

Again, my apologies for the downtime. I hope not to repeat that for quite some time.