# Recent RubyForge downtime

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recent-rubyforge-downtime/76454>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 19, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recent-rubyforge-downtime/76454 "2006-11-19T03:21:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tbcox23)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recent-rubyforge-downtime/76454/1 "2006-11-19T03:21:59Z")

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Hi all -

Just wanted to post about the recent RubyForge downtime. Basically it  
was a cron job mistake on my part one evening, which is fixed, and I  
think it was a ViewVC problem the next time, and I’m looking into that.

I know RubyForge has been a bit spotty lately. I’m working to open up  
the sysadmin job a bit to help with that. For example, Dennis Oelkers  
is now getting the Nagios monitoring emails and he’s got full access to  
[rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) so he can restart services, troubleshoot, etc.

I appreciate the emails of support and also those of “what can we do to  
help” that I’ve been getting. I want RubyForge to be up as much as  
possible, believe me. And we’ve been doing a lot behind the scenes to  
keep things running as RubyForge continues to grow - upgrading to Apache  
2.2, adding new spam filters, tweaking cronjob timing, and so forth.  
Part of the problem probably stem from the fact that I simply haven’t  
done admin duties on a machine this busy before, so I’m learning a lot  
of things for the first time. Growing pains and all that.

At any rate, please continue to report problems and slowness and  
whatever and we’ll continue to a) fix things as they come up and b) try  
to be proactively improving things and c) keep learning how to run a big  
multiuser server. RubyForge has served the Ruby community for the past  
3.5 years and we plan to continue running it for Time.now + x.years,  
where x is a large Fixnum.

Yours,

tom

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**Author:** ![tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tbcox23)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recent-rubyforge-downtime/76454/2 "2006-11-20T14:47:30Z")

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Hi Tom, I’d just like to say how much I appreciate the rubyforge  
service, and I think that the same goes for everyone who uses ruby on a  
day to day basis.

Jeremy

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**Author:** ![tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tbcox23)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recent-rubyforge-downtime/76454/3 "2006-11-20T14:47:36Z")

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Tom C. wrote:

> At any rate, please continue to report problems and slowness and  
> whatever and we’ll continue to a) fix things as they come up and b) try  
> to be proactively improving things and c) keep learning how to run a big  
> multiuser server. RubyForge has served the Ruby community for the past  
> 3.5 years and we plan to continue running it for Time.now + x.years,  
> where x is a large Fixnum.

Not a BigNum ? I’m very disappointed ;-).

Thanks for keeping rubyforge alive !

```
Vince
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**Author:** ![tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tbcox23](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tbcox23)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recent-rubyforge-downtime/76454/4 "2006-11-20T15:23:56Z")

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On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 21:09 +0900, Jeremy W. wrote:

> Hi Tom, I’d just like to say how much I appreciate the rubyforge  
> service, and I think that the same goes for everyone who uses ruby on a  
> day to day basis.

Many thanks! Rest assured that no one is more unhappy than I when I see  
those Nagios “RubyForge down” emails; we’re working through the problems  
and with any luck things will be stablized soon.

Yours,

Tom