Ste Packaging

A few days ago one of my two servers went away, as the sponsor (Freeit4Less) failed to pay for it at the beginning of this month. Neither they, nor the hosting company warned me this was going to happen, and my attempts to reach Freeit4Less have been fruitless. This leaves me with only one server, which means that if it goes down for any reason, there is no other server to fall back to and handle the load.

The server uses lighttpd to serve the files. For some reason, it dies about every day or so and needs a simple command to restart it. That was why it was down the other day and again this morning. I have put a watchdog cronjob entry in place now to restart it if it should die, and it runs once a minute. That should keep the site up and running (I will test it, momentarily, by deliberately killing lighttpd and making sure the script restarts it - update: the script works). I will then start looking to upgrade lighttpd or whatever else is needed to figure out why it frequently dies.

-ste