Do you know what caused that outage? Did it need to be rebooted, or was it a DoS or something? The IP was pingable during the outage.
I don’t know what it was. It started working again when I rebooted it.
Someone suggested it might have been the heavy load from a Reddit post
about Bitcoin. Inspecting the logs would be useful, but I don’t have
much time now.
Did you get back to davidonpda about his doing a mirror backup? I think that’s a really good idea. Do you do any backups, or the VPS do any for you automatically?
I told him to go ahead. I don’t do automatic backups atm. We should
have more server admins soon when I get bitcoinexchange.com to another
server. I could give the root password to you and somebody else. Xunie
has volunteered, but we might find somebody even more professional outage was due to heavy load, he could help us move to lighttpd or
optimize resources otherwise. Should we make a recruitment thread on
the forum?
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.