Posts in: June, 2006

Mike Marusin would like to hear some opinions about FeedLounge. Perhaps some of you could drop by and share your thoughts?

After our DNS fiasco last month, we’ve taken a number of steps to ensure that we can better handle an unexpected situation like that in the future. One of the things we choose to do was to move the System Status information for FeedLounge to a different domain entirely: feedlounge.info.

This change gives us 2 things:

1. A historical view of any issues that arise (you can see if there was a problem recently and when it was fixed).
2. A location for this information that is not affected by anything that happens to the feedlounge.com domain.

We’ve transitioned system status posts from this blog over to the new log site.

Many thanks to Geof Morris for both the “.info” suggestion and for hosting the feedlounge.info domain on his server (to give us yet another geographic location). Also, a nod to FastMail¹ for having a good example of how this can work.

Also, to address potential DNS problems specifically, we’re now set up with DNS servers in 4 geographic locations in the US:

• Austin, TX
• Houston, TX
• Silverspring, MD
• Englishtown, NJ

We’ve also got a 5th server in San Francisco ready to bring up should we need to at any point.

1. Disclosure: that link has a referral ID in it. [back]

I will be speaking in a PostgreSQL Migration Webinar, hosted by GreenPlum. I know it is late notice, but if you are interested in PostgreSQL in your enterprise, come on over and check it out, because when Stephen O’Grady speaks, nearly everyone listens.