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Server maintenance complete

February 25th, 2010 by dan

During the last two nights, I performed maintenance on our database server.  Both times this took longer than anticipated, but I think now we are back in the butter zone.  Maybe the site will even be noticeably faster!  Wouldn’t that be something?

By the way – to accomodate the work I was doing, I had to delete some old user sessions.  The result of this is that anyone who hasn’t visited the site since Feb 1, 2010 will be forced to login again.  (So, not a big deal.)

Posted in Scheduled Maintenance, Site News, System Status

A note about Best Buy alerts sent this morning

February 22nd, 2010 by dan

A bug in our product updating robot caused a bunch of Best Buy products to be erroneously marked as having prices of $0.00, and this unfortunately triggered the price drop alerts associated with those products.  I’m sorry for the unnecessary spam you may have received, but I believe things have been fixed.  If you notice anything suspicious or that you think might be a bug, please contact me so I can fix it asap.

Oh, and we had about 10 minutes of downtime starting at about 1am Pacific time.  This was due to a network upgrade that our ISP had scheduled but about which we saw no alert.  Next time we will be ready!

Posted in Stuff That Sucks, Unforeseen Consequences

Camel email alert issues (resolved)

February 20th, 2010 by dan

A network hiccup earlier today left our email server unable to process messages.  I have fixed the problem and our queue of emails is being processed as I write…

I am sorry if you have missed any savings during this time!

Posted in Development Log, Stuff That Sucks