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I have just executed my main web server - I watched it destroy itself on my command, before shutting down for good. Faithful to the end.
This means that I have now finished the move from the old web server to the new one, and I'm pleased to report that I seem to have completed the transition with minimal disruption for client sites.
I used nginx on the new server as a remote proxy, pointing at the old server. I then changed the DNS and waited for the caches to update, before locking the user-changeable areas for a few minutes ...
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Today I'm in the middle of moving my sites and services to new machines, finishing my new monitoring/alert system because last week monit failed to tell me a server had disappeared, I'm finishing the new CMS, upgrading bits of an old CMS, fixing problems appearing on the new servers, creating 3 new client mini-sites, and still trying to clear the 60+ e-mails that arrived while I was away on holiday. I've also written an excellent nginx control script, which I'll release on richardterry.co.uk next year.
We're also trying to buy a house ...
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You may have noticed that, for the first time in 9 years, this diary had fallen silent for not one but two entire months. You would be forgiven for assuming that this meant that I had died; however, you would be incorrect. I am very much alive. Bigger and better than ever.
Well, bigger at least - I've been on holiday in America for a month, eating bad meals three times a day every day. It was brilliant. Everything we did when we weren't eating was also brilliant - so much so that I feel the need to upload all ...
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It appears I'm getting worse at remembering to write diary entries. Over the past 9 years I have written 1287 entries, which averages about 12 a month, but due to work and procrastination that has dropped way off over the past year, and I'm barely managing 1 a month now. I have several draft posts half-written, just need to finish them, and get back into the flow of delivering you the minutia of my everyday life. Anyway, I expect you are all desperate for news of my eyes, so I will get on with it.
A month on ...
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I haven't posted for a while. You may have been wondering what has happened to me; well, for the end of June it was 24/7 work, and after that I couldn't see.
Around the end of June I wandered past Optical Express and saw the signs about laser eye surgery. I thought "Hmm, I wonder if I am suitable", so I wandered in to ask for some more information. They sat me down, ran all sorts of tests, and surprise, I was suitable! And I found myself booked in for the operation the next week.
I was ...
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