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 database server (MySQL). I am alerted by e-mail immediately if any problems start to arise, and Monit will automatically attempt to restart any of those services if for some reason they go down. We ran a few test rounds, and were pleased to see that manually shutting off any of these servers resulted in their being back up automatically within two minutes. That’s fantastic.
Anyway. That’s how DTI improved this weekend. Happy 2011!
