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VR was down for most of last night - for reasons mostly unknown. From my logs it went down about 1am, and only came back up about 2 this afternoon.

I could've had it up a bit quicker, but performance was a bit slow until I repaired the database...

This is what my host said.

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Looking at the core dumps they are referencing SQLite. From the servers logs I see we reinstalled SQLite at 5:37am CDT this morning. As far as why the issue started, the server had been rebooted into a new kernel and it appears SQLite had been affected at some point in that process. It looks like everything is working properly now.

Hostgator are great and their tech supp ...(more)

OK Guys, here's the thing. I got a favour to ask. The dev team at my new job are entered in a competition to win some kickass prizes, and gain mucho prestige. And I'd like to enlist some people from here to vote for them in the public vote!

The competition was to make a fancy web application in Ruby on Rails in 48 hours. The team, naturally spent 46 hours drinking beer and eating pizza, the other 2 on doing the app. However, it ended up OK, and it got through the first round of voting to the final shortlist of 22.

As I write this the app is in 4th place, and not far off the top!

So here's the deal - go to http://r09.railsrumble.com/entries - and ...(more)