SquidgeWorld Maintenance Take 2
Jan. 2nd, 2026 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squidgestatusI think we've finally uncovered the last issue ::knock wood::
First off, a couple of months back, some of the internal components of SquidgeWorld failed, and we had to move the drives and RAM to a new piece of hardware. That hardware, while slower, was working fine until the internal disk drive became corrupted - so earlier this week we ran through a disk correction, which led to a database file corruption and then cleanup.
Then yesterday things started to go pear-shaped again, and subsystems like the search function started to crash. After a bit of diagnosing, it appears that not only had that hardware fan gone bad, but it corrupted the RAM chips as well. Those RAM chips seemed to work for the most part, but during some of the intense processing, would bomb the entire server.
So this morning we've replaced the RAM chips and brought the Archive back up. And so far ::knock wood:: things appear to be working just fine.
Because we should (at least theoretically) be good now, I've also re-enabled Downloads. Give the server a little try and let me know if you find anything hinky.
First off, a couple of months back, some of the internal components of SquidgeWorld failed, and we had to move the drives and RAM to a new piece of hardware. That hardware, while slower, was working fine until the internal disk drive became corrupted - so earlier this week we ran through a disk correction, which led to a database file corruption and then cleanup.
Then yesterday things started to go pear-shaped again, and subsystems like the search function started to crash. After a bit of diagnosing, it appears that not only had that hardware fan gone bad, but it corrupted the RAM chips as well. Those RAM chips seemed to work for the most part, but during some of the intense processing, would bomb the entire server.
So this morning we've replaced the RAM chips and brought the Archive back up. And so far ::knock wood:: things appear to be working just fine.
Because we should (at least theoretically) be good now, I've also re-enabled Downloads. Give the server a little try and let me know if you find anything hinky.
