Mark Gilbert’s Blog

The website issues are finally resolved. The reasons for the problems are detailed below.

Well as some of you may or may not know I recently moved house. Since I was hosting the site myself for financial reasons it meant there would be a certain period of downtime while the phone line and Internet connection was sorted out. I was aware of this and could live with it.

What I could not have foreseen was that at the same time I would have an Install issue with my little MacMini server and would be forced to reinstall the only copy of OS X I have, 10.5 onto it for web serving purposes. On it’s own this was not a problem, obviously I have backups of the site and the database so just restore them and away I go. Simple. Except up until very recently MySQL AB did not produce a compiled version of MySQL for 10.5 on PPC, only on x86. I did attempt a few times to compile the database from source but with no luck. I was seemingly stuck. As a stop gap I used the drop in solution MAMP which worked for the most part other than a few little quirks, like sometimes the web server would stop running for no reason and MAMp would not be able to start it again as it still thought it was running. This created a problem where I had no control over whether the server was up or down, with no serious monitoring effort the server may fall over and I would be non the wiser.

That is what had been happening for the last few weeks, but now MySQL AB have pulled their collective fingers out and delivered a build of MySQL for 10.5 PPC, a quick install and it’s up and running.

Fingers crossed it will be ok now, time will tell though.

Cheers

I did experience a short spell of server down time recently, due to some electrical work being carried out. Hopefully though that is all done now and things can return to normallity.

Cheers