January 2011
6 posts
Customisation Roulette (new feature!) →
Earlier today, TNT posted on their Facebook page a few photos of “Customisation Roulette,” where they chose a random species and color and proceeded to fill all of the zones. Naturally, I was inspired, and decided to quickly throw together a similar feature for our open-source customisation site, Dress to Impress :)
Go to http://newimpress.openneo.net/roulette or type in the pet name...
Beta server downtime: workin' on it
After setting up Monit to keep an eye on the beta server, we noticed that Monit would often restart the app for taking up too much memory, and restart so often that it would just give up and leave it off. That’s not good.
It looks like the beta app has a memory leak, meaning that, on each hit, the application consumes more and more memory, slowing things down on the whole system. We already...
New login server goes live: finally, password... →
This has been a while in the making, but at least one major bit of Dress to Impress has now entirely moved to the new server: accounts. Both the main server and beta server now run through the new OpenNeo ID server to log in.
This new server brings in all of the features that login should have had in the first place: password resets, changing password/e-mail, etc. Plus, it’s prettier, and...
Beta server gets auto repair for downtime
Wow. So apparently the beta server was down for three days and, since I was working on my local copy of the site, I never checked the beta server. Sorry about that; that’s an indicator of a problem if I ever saw one.
Therefore, the Dress to Impress beta server now comes fitted with an installation of Monit that constantly tracks the web server (nginx), the application server (thin), and the...
