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It was touch and go last Saturday while Urban Yukon’s server was offline for more than 24 hours as I wrestled with the server setup. The problem seems to have been solved and it looks like smooth sailing ahead. For the three-sevenths of one percent of you that care, here’s a snapshot of the “dashboard” I use to keep tabs on the server:

Looks fascinating, no? On the left are htop and iftop which monitor the processor/memory use, and network traffic, respectively. On the right are the Apache web server access and error logs (the latter seems to be telling me to check a couple of UY blog RSS feed addresses).

I still have some fine-tuning to do on the Apache and MySQL (database) configuration so that they can’t completely take over the server during busy periods. Just a day in the life of a shade tree web server administrator.

If you had checked into Urban Yukon between about 10am on Friday the 3rd and 11am on Saturday the 4th, you would’ve either seen an apologetic message or nothing whatsoever. The reason was that I was upgrading the server that hosts urbanyukon.com and the procedure became discombobulatingly defusticated for some bizarre reason.

I had good backups, so nothing was lost, but it will take a little while for the site to catch up with your most recent blog postings.

The server is also now upgraded to the most recent version of the Ubuntu Server operating system and has more memory to boot, so Urban Yukon should run much more smoothly.

I’m updating the server’s operating system and it’ll take a few hours to complete. I’ll post an update later this afternoon with news of my progress.