Strange Downtime Issues

Friday 01/23/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized

Flickr Original users and everyone else--my server hiccuped sometime yesterday afternoon which caused most of the running apps to die, resulting '503 service unavailable' errors. I've looked at my logs and charts over the past day and I can't tell what exactly happened yet...my merb processes totally disappeared and php-cgi instances stopped responding. I'll be continuing to investigate what caused the hiccup...sorry for the inconvenience!

As a side note, I really need to write some monit scripts to notify and restart services if they start acting up again.