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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Title: Eternity Is Not Enough
Fandom: Teen Titans
Genre: General, Romance
Warnings/Spoilers: None, except that I have not been following the comics or the series as much as I should have. This is just a result of what I thought of the prompt. D: Don't be angry.
Notes: Okay, this wasn't a fail like the last post, but I'm still quite Meh about it. Linked back to my writing journal.

(For all the moments I want to spend with you, there will be enough time.)

Title: Settle
Fandom: Teen Titans
Genre: General
Pairings/Characters: Robin, Raven, Batman?
Warnings/Spoilers: None that I can see.
Notes: Actually, this was a fail. I tried to write for dailyprompt's walking on the moonlight and this little drabble just didn't fit. I kept on thinking about Zutara and so, I guess, a Zutara will come up sometime, hopefully in the near future.

This has no set timeline. It's like a mix between the comics and the Cartoon Network series. :/ Eh, I just went with the flow. Excuse me, as it is quite unbeta'd. Linked to my writing journal.

Raven and Batman- her kind of man- Batman