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Service Restart
The server was suffering from a chronic shortage of memory so I took the opportunity to perform security updates on the server. The service was running since March and so hasn’t performed too badly. Hope to upgrade to new hardware soon which means increased memory allowance.
Service upgrades, Saturday 5th March
I will be upgrading some back-end services on Sat 5th March from about 10am. This will impact the Jabber service. I’m unsure how long this will take, but at worst I hope to have this back up again by 2pm. [Updated: 10:55am 05/03/2011] Server is offline for this work. [Updated: 1:30pm 05/03/2011] Server is up Read More …
Upgrading to ejabberd 2.1
Having tested Ejabberd 2.1 I expect to be migrating over to this at some point in the near future. It’s possible I will just do this when the ejabberd process crashes, but will update this blog entry with the latest news. This upgrade should not require you to change anything, but it is possible that Read More …
Stability issues & upgrades
Service stability: I’ve been having some issues with the stability of the server, this seems to be down to the connection between ejabberd and the database server (were user accounts are kept). I’ve been unable to resolve this problem but I have been doing my best to keep an eye on the server Software upgrades: Read More …
Jabber Server down
The Jabber server was down for a prolonged period due to the daemon crashing. This wasn’t caught and restarted automatically and I was absent from the internet until just now. It is up once again and I’ll be trying to make sure such a thing is caught next time.