Total servers: 6
New servers this year: 3
Total customers: 32
New customers this year: 6
Domains: 130
Email addresses: 1858
Monthly Data transferred: 1.6TB
Monthly Emails: 705,000
   84% is definitely spam and thrown away immediately
   3% is possible spam and put in spam folders

Thanks to God and our customers, Lime Daley is continuing to grow strong.

 

No news is good news as they say, so you haven't heard from me in a long time.  My upstream provider has built a new data center, and tonight is the night for my servers to move to the new location.  The new location has been up and running without any glitches for a couple of months, so I don't expect any issues with the move.

For those customers on "shared" hosting plans, you shouldn't see any difference, for those customers with colocation plans, you will now have better access to the facilities, and there are some bonus perks of conference room space and in general a nicer facility than the old one.

IP addresses will not change, so DNS records and whitelists, etc. don't need to be updated.

The plan is to unplug all of the servers just after 9PM tonight, and they will probably be down for 30-60 minutes. No incoming email will be lost, as the senders' ISPs will retry once the servers come back up.  All email, web and FTP access will be down for this period.

Probably not very exciting news for most of you, but to try to keep the cobbler's-kids-don't-have-shoes syndrome at bay, we've updated our web page, which will hopefully be easier to navigate.

One of our upstream providers (Sprint) has been having connectivity problems for the last hour, and worse, even after routing to/from them is turned off, they have something misconfigured, so they are grabbing traffic that they don't own, and so generating circular loops into never-neverland.

The worst of it seems to be over, and most traffic seems to be resolving well, but it is not 100% up yet.

The most troubling outage in Lime Daley's history occurred this week - causing sporadic outages for a couple of days on one of our servers.  No email was lost, though customers might have seen their web site down, or timeouts when trying to check their email.

It turns out to be a bug in the linux kernel that shows itself on certain hardware.  We are not clear as to why it only showed up recently, but are happy to report that a workaround exists, and the server seems to be stable going forward.

Lime Daley is expanding its servers in the near future, and one side effect of that will be that if any outages should occur like this in the future, we will be better prepared to handle it.

A hearty welcome goes out to the FYI.net and IGDC.com customers whose hosts are closing down in the next couple weeks.  Lime Daley is going strong, and we are happy to provide service to you.

        Lime Daley internet hosting is in its fourth year of officially providing internet hosting, though some of you have been using services unofficially for longer than that. In that time, we have grown to 22 customers, primarily small companies and organizations, a large handful of individuals and a couple mid-sized companies, resulting in about a thousand email addresses and one hundred web sites.  We are in the process of contracting a guy to take over some of the web development tasks. THANK YOU for making Lime Daley a success, and please let others know about the service you receive.  We do have a referral program, and a couple customers usually receive free hosting due to referring so many people.

        PHP4 support was discontinued by the authors as of January, 2008.  Lime Daley will be moving everyone to PHP5 this Friday, May 30.  We will go through each site to try to make sure it is still working, but depending on what PHP applications you are using, particularly if you wrote it yourself, there might be issues in migrating.  There are two temporary solutions that you can use if your code doesn't work in PHP5.

• Rename the affected files with a .php4 extension.
• Add a bit of code to your .htaccess file:

 ForceType application/x-httpd-php4

    Remember that this is only a temporary measure, as PHP4 does not receive ongoing security updates and bug fixes, and it will be supported less and less as time goes on.