| Re: A gremlin in the coffee machine last night Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 15:09, 12th February 2025 |     |
| Re: A gremlin in the coffee machine last night Posted by grahame at 22:16, 11th February 2025 | |
This thread came up on my "most recent likes" ...
I was half wondering whether to post this server load (on our worker machine) from today
The spike was NOT the Coffee Shop - it was the old "Save the Train" website still hosted on the same machine which rose from under 4 accesses every minute to over 6,000 every minute for a while, all from (!) Iran. Didn't the class 141s go out there?
| Re: A gremlin in the coffee machine last night Posted by grahame at 22:57, 15th October 2023 | |
Some unusual behaviour late yesterday evening within our database engine and we had a handful of outages no more than a few minutes each; I paused the service of Coffee a couple of times while I investigated and took additional off-site backups. Problems cleared in the early hours, but I have no definitive answer to what triggered them ....
Triggered again and a Denial of Service attack caught in the act today. Gauges went off the scale but the server carried on running and because it was caught in the act I could see what was happening, block (at midday) and see that the block worked ...
| A gremlin in the coffee machine last night Posted by grahame at 07:17, 10th October 2023 | |
Some unusual behaviour late yesterday evening within our database engine and we had a handful of outages no more than a few minutes each; I paused the service of Coffee a couple of times while I investigated and took additional off-site backups. Problems cleared in the early hours, but I have no definitive answer to what triggered them - just an educated guess. Issues did NOT get to the point of formally shutting for maintenance or flagging ongoing issues, but please bookmark http://status.passenger.chat in case we ever hit something more serious.
Standard advice (abundance of caution) - if you compose a long or difficult post, please keep a local copy just in case - our systems are not strong to a safety-critical standard and should the server crash or have an accident, restoration may miss some recent activity.
