This morning’s outage (Power, power, power)

Dumb.

Over the last year we’ve significantly upgraded the power distribution within our mini-data center. However, as often is the case when things are upgraded, we hadn’t yet worked out all of the kinks.

Yesterday, I upgraded the Brownrice phone systems by bringing a new Asterisk server online…

A Real Systems Administrator’s Desk

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Dave's desk — Two laptops, four monitors, and one fish tank

Don’t try and get anything by Dave you bad, bad server. He’s watching.

A little network maintenance

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We’re about to perform a little network maintenance (today, February 1st, 2009 at approximately 2:45 pm MT) which will provide us with an additional layer of redundancy and potentially greater speeds to both coasts.

We don’t expect any downtime, but, well, you never can be sure with tech upgrades!

How to (un)successfully advertise on the Internet, Part 1

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This is Part 1 of a series by Oban Lambie. Part II is here.

I’ve done some hard time on the ‘Net. For years, stretching into decades, I’ve coded sites, run servers, and held the hands of customers both big and small to get my little business to where it is now; a hosting and programming shop in Taos…

Can’t login to Squirrelmail!

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Squirrelmail, aka “The old webmail,” has gone wonkey on us as we migrate it to more robust servers and upgrade it. i.e. Its online but its broke. So don’t use it.

For the four of you who actually use “The old webmail” to read your email, I apologize. In the meantime you can use the real webmail, here…

Better uptime than Google, Rackspace, and Amazon?

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Smooth Flying — Better than Air Kazakstan!

Yep.

In 2009 Brownrice provided our hosting, co-location, and virtual server customers with 100% network up-time for the entire year – soundly besting the volume-based hosting companies.

OK, full disclosure: Our network was down for a total of 3 minutes and 11 seconds for the calendar year. I think…

The Boutique Hoster

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