November 2, 2005
Birdhouse experienced a service outage of approximately 10-15 minutes earlier today, and we’re fairly certain the culprit was an Urchin thread running out of control. We’ve experienced various issues with Urchin in the past, and it appears that very few users are using Urchin at all (awstats is generally faster and easier to read), […]
October 22, 2005
The Smarty PHP templating engine / framework is now available for customer use.
A Birdhouse FAQ on Smarty is here.
Enjoy!
October 8, 2005
SpamAssassin was recently updated to v3.10. Some configuration files were moved around, which resulting in SURBLs (DCC/Razor/Pyzor) being broken for a few days, which may have meant a bit more spam for some users over the past few days. The configurations have been corrected, and spam levels should be down close to zero […]
September 21, 2005
We’re now checking for POP/IMAP mailboxes running near quota 4x daily. Account owners will receive mail warning that they’re near quota, with suggestions on ways to reduce the size of their server-side mail store. Main account holders can modify quotas for individual mailboxes.
More information
August 15, 2005
The virus-checking engine (ClamAV) tied to the mail server has been rebuilt and updated. Please let us know if you notice any viral attachments in your inbox.
August 15, 2005
Approximately 10 minutes of downtime tonight for scheduled maintenance on our subnet at the datacenter (router upgrade/replacement).
August 3, 2005
Birdhouse experienced a service outage from approximately 6:50 p.m. to 7:05 p.m. PDT. All services are running normally after a reboot.
July 6, 2005
Those of you using zsh as your login shell will be pleased to learn that zsh once again works as a login shell (that is, you no longer need to log in via bash and switch to zsh).
Those of you using tcsh will be pleased to learn that tcsh (and csh) are now able to […]
July 4, 2005
After noticing a recent uptick in the amount of spam flowing through our filters, discovered that an automated upgrade of our mail server (Exim MTA) had overwritten the config file, which included references to our preferred RBLs (real-time blacklists). The RBLs have been restored, and a few new ones added. Please let us know if […]
July 4, 2005
Movable Type users may have experienced intermittent and unpredictable posting issues in the past few days. The problem was caused by an automatic upgrade of the DBD::MySQL perl library, which was released in buggy form by CPAN and “upgraded” automatically by cPanel. Tracking down the source of the problem was tricky, but we’ve manually downgraded […]