Strength to Strength

Hi Everyone, Feed Distiller is going from strength to strength, with extra advert cash from the olympic games. I've also become organizer of the London Blog Club at Meetup.com, and will be buzy building extra blogging apps and toturials to help new users. Soon will have a new forum app allowing feedback on blog posts. Stay Tuned for more.

Outage Apology

Been nearly two years, and feed distiller has been very stable, its for that reason that when the server went spinning on thurday 16 march 2012 we couldn't get the reboot done until we updated the contact information and passwords at our colocation partner. So we where out the weekend this time, big f-up. But the servers ok again, we're looking at our next machine to be more local, and grander. Big new feature coming at FD, in the next month or so. So look out for these.

Server Live and Building Info Feeds

We're pleased to announce our server is back online and building its information feeds as normal.

Still out, for a rebuild

We decided to upgrade the current installation of our server to full raid. After first copying the important recovered data from the working old mirror drive. We bought to new 1TB disks and setup, a Raid using ubuntu 9.10 install. This ment a fresh install of Linux. The server will be replaced in our Colo location, on Friday. However because are previous mirroring was performed by 'tar' and not something them preserves unix ownership and permission, many bugs may remain on the system.

Phew found saved data

Out of our three disks, one had a readable file-system, with a data back to the 20's. So we've lost two weeks of work. Our backup mirroring was just good enough, but we didn't have the redundancy we won't for real safety. Because we're now caching so many web pages, we fulled the primary hard drive so much, that backing up would fail, plus two weeks of the pressure of having a disk being pushed to full up all the time, finally made the primary drive fail. God bless rsync. What was really bad of us, is that we didn't have a copy of the database of the feeds anywhere else except the server. They should have been copies back to our development system made at least once a weak.

Going to improve our backup methodology next time. Onwards with the recovery.

Server outage

We had a hard drive failure over the easter holiday, and are currently offline. The server is current back in our labs, and we're recovering the data, and swapping over from the mirror drives.
We'll update you soon. Unfortunately we didn't budget for a spare live server, so our apologies.

Update the themes

4 Colour scheme just weren't enough for FD, so we've added 5 more.