https://limedaley.com/category/announcements/ Recent content in Announcements on Lime Daley Hugo en-US Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:55:54 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/subversion-server-moved/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:50:54 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/subversion-server-moved/ One of my old physical servers finally died and I had to move the Subversion server to a new machine.  This resulted in the ssh host key changing, so if you get this error: svn: E170013: Commit failed (details follow) svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn+ssh://svn@svn.limedaley.com/...' svn: E210002: To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q option from 'ssh' in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration file. https://limedaley.com/post/no-news-is-good-news/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:35:55 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/no-news-is-good-news/ We haven't had many announcements for quite a while, and that is because everything has been running smoothly.  A few new customers here and there, some small website changes, etc. But...  Today our mail server got listed on the dreaded SBL (which is a great service, and I use it to block incoming email), not because any of our servers were hacked, but because our ISP had a "fraudulent customer" https://limedaley.com/post/new-mail-server/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:10:12 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/new-mail-server/ After much procrastination, Lime Daley has a new mail server, thus finally bringing it up to date with the latest standards, etc. Due to the way the hostnames work, as long as you have your configuration setup correctly, you shouldn't have noticed any problems. If you are now getting login problems, check your configuration according to the link above, and then give us a call to help you figure out what you need to change. https://limedaley.com/post/voip-provider-switch-pending/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:00:14 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/voip-provider-switch-pending/ Flowroute has served Lime Daley for the last 15 years and they have done well for the most part, but every once in a while they make really bad policy decisions.  Last time they almost made me switch to a new provider was a silly decision to charge all customers a monthly fee for 911 access even if they couldn't actually call 911 due it being an incoming-only line or not even registered. https://limedaley.com/post/mail-migration-long-overdue/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 03:39:34 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/mail-migration-long-overdue/ We are moving all email accounts to a new server which will improve reliability, security, and features. We are hoping that customers won't notice any changes, but it is possible that there will be some connection issues, particularly if you have an old email client; it might need to be upgraded to connect to the new SSL certificates and ciphers. Contact us if you have any problems in the coming weeks. https://limedaley.com/post/major-power-loss-at-the-datacenter/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:42:52 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/major-power-loss-at-the-datacenter/ The servers have redundant A/B power connections, but there was a circuit breaker problem at the utility or something that somehow took out both power legs and didn't let the generator startup either.  Power went down at 3AM, and came back up at 4ish, but there are still some lingering affects. Update: 06:52AM: Everything seems to be up and running at this point.  Let us know if you are still having any problems. https://limedaley.com/post/virtual-server-outage/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 01:08:33 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/virtual-server-outage/ The virtual server system has been having trouble over the last week and the ISP thought they would be ok for a few more days, but a switch died again and took everything down. They are working on it now, but don't have an estimated uptime yet.   This affects various websites and all email services use a virtual server as a proxy, though I'm wondering about bringing that proxy server up at a new host. https://limedaley.com/post/temporary-outage/ Sun, 09 Oct 2016 15:31:09 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/temporary-outage/ We lost a second drive in clementine today, which will affect some users and all phone service.  We are working on migrating the information to a new server and are hoping to have everything back up shortly. Update: All users and phone service was moved to mandarin, and everything is back up functioning normally. https://limedaley.com/post/notice-physical-server-move/ Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:29:49 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/notice-physical-server-move/ All of the servers need to be moved this weekend (the move has been in the works for the last three or four years...) and so there will be some downtime for each of the servers, around 15 minutes starting at 5:30AM, and finishing up by 7:30AM on Sunday morning. Hopefully, this time frame will be as least intrusive as possible for you and your visitors/customers. UPDATE: 2/21/2016 7:48AM: Everything went as well as it could have, and most of the servers had even less downtime than expected. https://limedaley.com/post/new-ssh-keys-for-orange/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 02:19:24 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/new-ssh-keys-for-orange/ We're increasing the security on orange to get it up to (mostly) modern standards.  The fingerprint for the RSA key is: SHA256:mOIrhJUd+tgKjvMD21YvZaL3Ew37lqIubNZj0qz6Gjc RSA:2048:4d:b4:d8:0d:0f:74:5f:68:2d:87:b7:df:fb:cb:80:6f Sorry for the inconvenience, but is better to be inconvenienced than insecure... https://limedaley.com/post/hardware-failure/ Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:00:06 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/hardware-failure/ Lime Daley experienced an unspecified hardware failure in a hard drive this morning, and caused some sites to be down for a number of hours.  The hardware is being worked on at the moment, and most customers are fully back up.  Some customers are still missing data, and that data will hopefully be automatically restored over the next couple of hours. https://limedaley.com/post/heartbleed-ssl-bug-resolved/ Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:07:04 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/heartbleed-ssl-bug-resolved/ Lime Daley has updated all of our SSL certificates due to the recently discovered bug in the widely used OpenSSL libraries. The vulnerability affected our email and web services.  Unfortunately, there isn't any way to detect whether an attacker has made any use of this vulnerability or not.  To be safe, you should update any passwords you have. This vulnerability does not apply to those customers on "orange", as that server was using a version of the software that was not affected by this bug. https://limedaley.com/post/hardware-maintenance-clementine/ Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:52:47 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/hardware-maintenance-clementine/ A hard drive failed in clementine, and the plan is to replace the drive today, provided that USPS delivered it to the right place.  I'm hoping to replace it without taking the machine down, but we might need to power down the machine for a little while to avoid losing any data during the replacement. I'll update this page as any new information happens. 10:30AM Update: The drive has been replaced, and the machine is back up and running. https://limedaley.com/post/storm-status/ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:20:09 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/storm-status/ Since the servers are located on the east coast, we are potentially affected by Hurricane Sandy.  But, the backup power systems were tested this morning, generators have their fuel tanks topped up, and we are not expecting any problems with the service.  Stay safe at home checking your email...  :) https://limedaley.com/post/domains-made-easy-godaddy-dns-outage/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:05:03 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/domains-made-easy-godaddy-dns-outage/ For those customers who use domainsmadeeasy as their DNS provider, you are likely seeing sporadic outages.  A hacker has claimed responsibility, but hasn't said why.  DomainsMadeEasy's phone is busy/down, so I haven't been able to talk to them to get an estimated uptime. I suppose there is one reason to use the company I use for DNS (who have recently changed their policy to not allow me to tell you who that is? https://limedaley.com/post/server-outage/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:52:52 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/server-outage/ It's been a while since I've had anything interesting to report, and that's usually considered a good thing... We're having some trouble with one of the servers and replacement parts are on order and will be installed tomorrow.  In the meantime, if you are on "tangerine", your web page will be inaccessible.  Email will still be delivered relatively normally in most cases, and will be saved for later delivery in all other cases. https://limedaley.com/post/internet-routing-level3/ Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:26:57 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/internet-routing-level3/ Level3 (an upstream provider for Lime Daley) appears to be having some issues today, and that is causing some flakiness in our network.  Staff is onsite monitoring the issue, and may end up moving traffic off of Level3 until they fix their issue. [Update: it turned out to be a Sprint issue, and it took them a while to figure it out.  It only affected the connections between some people and some websites. https://limedaley.com/post/boring-announcement/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:36:11 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/boring-announcement/ Not much to say, but I figured there hasn't been anything posted in a while, so thought I should at least post something. Lime Daley has expanded our existing servers a bit - one customer now has 16GB of RAM exclusively for their site, and another customer needed more disk space, and so we installed a RAID6 array with 8TB of usable space. https://limedaley.com/post/state-of-the-lime-2011/ Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:52:27 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/state-of-the-lime-2011/ Another successful year has passed for Lime Daley, and since I like statistics, when I happened to notice a large amount of spam being silently thrown away today, I took the opportunity to check up on the stats for the last year. EMAIL We received 5 million emails in the last 12 months. We bounced 74% of that email back to the original sender because it was being sent from computers known to be spammers. https://limedaley.com/post/network-upgrade/ Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:06:38 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/network-upgrade/ We'll be upgrading some networking equipment on December 22 between 2:00 and 6:00 AM EST.  You might see some delays and brief outages during that maintenance window. UPDATE: 2010/12/22: 6:30AM: Most equipment has been upgraded without any downtime.  The job ended up getting split into two pieces, so there will be another maintenance window on 12/24 as well. UPDATE: 2010/12/24: 7:00AM: All devices have been upgraded.  We had a couple minutes of downtime around 4:00AM. https://limedaley.com/post/quicker-email-delivery/ Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:55:11 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/quicker-email-delivery/ We are now using dnswl.org's mail server whitelist to bypass greylisting, which means that for known legitimate mail servers (all 101,686 of them at the moment), greylisting will be bypassed, which means that your e-mail will arrive a little bit sooner.[@more@]We'll eventually turn off spam filtering for those servers with the "high" rating, which should mean that advertisements from companies that you've actually signed up for will be less likely to arrive in your spam folder. https://limedaley.com/post/intermittent-network-connectivity/ Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:03:45 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/intermittent-network-connectivity/ Our upstream provider is currently seeing intermittent network connectivity at this point.  We are looking into it further. UPDATE: 11:05EDT: The cause was a misconfigured machine on our network causing a denial of service to other connections.  The machine has been removed from the network, and as of 10:25EDT, everything looks good, but we'll continue monitoring. https://limedaley.com/post/dns-outage-slow/ Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:53:32 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/dns-outage-slow/ 2010/08/07, 10:55AM: The company we use for DNS services is having some issues this morning and some queries are not being answered, and some are being redirected to our European servers, and causing various delays. If you host DNS with Lime Daley, you might see some flakiness in accessing services on your domain. Incoming mail should not be lost, as the senders' servers will retry automatically.  And we've opened a support ticket with our upstream providers to make sure they know about the issue. https://limedaley.com/post/electronic-distributor/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:48:14 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/electronic-distributor/ Lime Daley is proud to announce that we are expanding our business into the area of consumer electronic products.  We can sometimes get better prices than what is available to the general public, but we see the added value for you is that if there are any problems with the product, you get to deal with Lime Daley, rather than some large company somewhere that doesn't really care about you and your business. https://limedaley.com/post/lime-daley-statistics/ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:03:51 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/lime-daley-statistics/ 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.   https://limedaley.com/post/data-center-migration/ Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:29:27 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/data-center-migration/ 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. https://limedaley.com/post/website-updated/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:45:45 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/website-updated/ 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. https://limedaley.com/post/sprint-outage/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:11:55 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/sprint-outage/ 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.[@more@] As a side-effect of this, I learned about a nifty chart that shows how the big network guys are doing in regards to network times between each other. https://limedaley.com/post/partial-outage-solved/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:41:03 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/partial-outage-solved/ 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. https://limedaley.com/post/web-hosting-provider-closing-down-join-lime-daley/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:28:09 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/web-hosting-provider-closing-down-join-lime-daley/ 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. https://limedaley.com/post/power-outage/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:53:16 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/power-outage/ Switch and Data, the company where our servers are located, experienced a complete power outage last night for a couple seconds, causing all servers to be rebooted.  The technicians were doing some scheduled maintenance, but the outage was unscheduled, they are looking into the problem further to try to prevent the problem from occurring in the future.  The outage reduced our current month's uptime to 99.9955%, the lowest it has been in a long time. https://limedaley.com/post/domain-registry-support-phishing-scam/ Tue, 27 May 2008 13:49:46 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/domain-registry-support-phishing-scam/ Watch out for calls or e-mails from companies claiming to verify your information. I got a call today regarding one of our customer's domains, trying to get information to "verify" the ownership. Presumably they are trying to take over ownership of the domain. An easy question to ask them is if they are the current registrar for the domain. (Of course they could lie about that, but Domain Registry Support is honest enough to ignore the question and just keep restating who they are, rather than saying " https://limedaley.com/post/thank-you-to-our-customers/ Mon, 26 May 2008 19:43:10 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/thank-you-to-our-customers/ 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. https://limedaley.com/post/php4-to-php5-upgrade/ Mon, 26 May 2008 19:39:11 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/php4-to-php5-upgrade/ 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. https://limedaley.com/post/spam-statistics/ Mon, 19 May 2008 17:50:06 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/spam-statistics/ Statistics update for all of Lime Daley's servers. It is always amazing to me to see how much spam is sent by known spammers, and is trivially easy to throw away. I just checked the current stats, and Lime Daley is on target to reject 2 million spams this year. That doesn't include spams that are more questionable (122 thousand), and will be passed onto the user's spam folders for them to verify that they are spam. https://limedaley.com/post/easier-user-administration/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:50:38 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/easier-user-administration/ Lime Daley now supports SSL for all email connections for all customers, if they use their assigned domain name for accessing our servers.  Contact the support department for details, but generally, the appropriate name is <your-domain-name>-mail.limedaley.com.  This hostname can be used for SSL (and non-SSL, though we recommend SSL for security; TLS is also available) connections for SMTP, POP, IMAP as well as webmail and configuration by going to https://<your-domain-name>-mail. https://limedaley.com/post/password-reset/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:09:43 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/password-reset/ We had a database problem today that required some email account passwords to be regenerated.  We apologize for the inconvenience, and have contacted most of the affected customers by phone or alternate means. https://limedaley.com/post/network-maintenance/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:17:50 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/network-maintenance/ On May 5th, between midnight and 6AM, Sprint will be shutting down their network for four hours.  The network will automatically failover to one of the other providers, so you should only see some network slowdowns and possibly some outages for thirty seconds or so as the routes switchover. https://limedaley.com/post/maintenance-update/ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:44:09 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/maintenance-update/ I had hoped that this blog would be used for more interesting things other than outage reports, but so far, that hasn't happened. This morning a circuit breaker blew at the ISP, causing one of the servers (containing one customer) to go down for 30 minutes.  The power switches are probably going to be reorganized today, and all of the servers might be rebooted at some point, not exactly sure what the status is at this point. https://limedaley.com/post/bandwidth-limits-removed/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:35:19 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/bandwidth-limits-removed/ I discovered only yesterday (despite suspicions for a month or two) that when the network was switched a while ago, bandwidth caps had been placed by our ISP. They have been removed, and I was able to hit 80Mbps incoming and outgoing - I don't have a faster connection anywhere else with which to test it. But, for those of you who had noticed the previous 1Mbps cap and not complained, or figured it was your connection, you can be happier now. https://limedaley.com/post/first-outage/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:43:26 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/first-outage/ Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Lime Daley had its first outage. My ISP had a router that failed, and caused the network to go down for 5 minutes. Five minutes isn't all that much, but isn't really acceptable for me. So, I will probably move the machine to my other host, who has redundant internet connections, and is supposed to be immune from this sort of thing. https://limedaley.com/post/logos/ Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:10:07 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/logos/ A couple people have asked about putting a "powered by LimeDaley" logo on their site, so we made a couple logos for you to choose from: Transparent logo: Transparent logo with border: White background: https://limedaley.com/post/lime-daley-hosting-begins/ Sun, 15 May 2005 17:47:32 +0000 https://limedaley.com/post/lime-daley-hosting-begins/ We have hosted a server and multiple sites at our house for 6 months, and we are now ready to make the leap to the colocation facility. There won't be any downtime during the switchover.