What was the bitcoin.org outage?

Private email with Martti Malmi (sirius-m) · 6 messages · from 2 December 2010 · with Satoshi Nakamoto, mmalmi@cc.hut.fi

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Satoshi Nakamoto to Martti Malmi <mmalmi@cc.hut.fi> · 2 December 2010, 22:00 UTC · original

Do you know what caused that outage? Did it need to be rebooted, or was it a DoS or something? The IP was pingable during the outage. Did you get back to davidonpda about his doing a mirror backup? I think that's a really good idea. Do you do any backups, or the VPS do any for you automatically?

mmalmi@cc.hut.fi to Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com> · 3 December 2010, 10:08 UTC · original

Do you know what caused that outage? Did it need to be rebooted, or was it a DoS or something? The IP was pingable during the outage.

I don't know what it was. It started working again when I rebooted it. Someone suggested it might have been the heavy load from a Reddit post about Bitcoin. Inspecting the logs would be useful, but I don't have much time now.

Did you get back to davidonpda about his doing a mirror backup? I think that's a really good idea. Do you do any backups, or the VPS do any for you automatically?

I told him to go ahead. I don't do automatic backups atm. We should have more server admins soon when I get bitcoinexchange.com to another server. I could give the root password to you and somebody else. Xunie has volunteered, but we might find somebody even more professional outage was due to heavy load, he could help us move to lighttpd or optimize resources otherwise. Should we make a recruitment thread on the forum?

Satoshi Nakamoto to mmalmi@cc.hut.fi · 3 December 2010, 19:58 UTC · original

I told him to go ahead. I don't do automatic backups atm. We should have more server admins soon when I get bitcoinexchange.com to another server. I could give the root password to you and somebody else. Xunie has volunteered, but we might find somebody even more professional from the forum and keep the number of admins at the minimum. If the outage was due to heavy load, he could help us move to lighttpd or optimize resources otherwise. Should we make a recruitment thread on the forum?

It should be Gavin. I trust him, he's responsible, professional, and technically much more linux capable than me. (I don't know Xunie, but he hasn't posted for months and he was a goofball)

mmalmi@cc.hut.fi to Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com> · 6 December 2010, 11:33 UTC · original

I'm ready to send you the password. Can you send me your PGP key so I don't have to send it in plaintext?

It should be Gavin. I trust him, he's responsible, professional, and technically much more linux capable than me.

Ok, I'll ask him.

Satoshi Nakamoto to mmalmi@cc.hut.fi · 6 December 2010, 16:08 UTC · original

mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
I'm ready to send you the password. Can you send me your PGP key so I don't have to send it in plaintext? > It should be Gavin. I trust him, he's responsible, professional, and > technically much more linux capable than me. Ok, I'll ask him.

Thanks, did you finish moving bitcoinexchange to another server? -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) mQGiBEkJ+qcRBADKDTcZlYDRtP1Q7/ShuzBJzUh9hoVVowogf2W07U6G9BqKW24r piOxYmErjMFfvNtozNk+33cd/sq3gi05O1IMmZzg2rbF4ne5t3iplXnNuzNh+j+6 VxxA16GPhBRprvnng8r9GYALLUpo9Xk17KE429YYKFgVvtTPtEGUlpO1EwCg7FmW dBbRp4mn5GfxQNT1hzp9WgkD/3pZ0cB5m4enzfylOHXmRfJKBMF02ZDnsY1GqeHv /LjkhCusTp2qz4thLycYOFKGmAddpVnMsE/TYZLgpsxjrJsrEPNSdoXk3IgEStow mXjTfr9xNOrB20Qk0ZOO1mipOWMgse4PmIu02X24OapWtyhdHsX3oBLcwDdke8aE gAh8A/sHlK7fL1Bi8rFzx6hb+2yIlD/fazMBVZUe0r2uo7ldqEz5+GeEiBFignd5 HHhqjJw8rUJkfeZBoTKYlDKo7XDrTRxfyzNuZZPxBLTj+keY8WgYhQ5MWsSC2MX7 FZHaJddYa0pzUmFZmQh0ydulVUQnLKzRSunsjGOnmxiWBZwb6bQjU2F0b3NoaSBO YWthbW90byA8c2F0b3NoaW5AZ214LmNvbT6IYAQTEQIAIAUCSQn6pwIbAwYLCQgH AwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEBjAnoZeyUihXGMAnjiWJ0fvmSgSM3o6Tu3q RME9GN7QAKCGrFw9SUD0e9/YDcqhX1aPMrYue7kCDQRJCfqnEAgA9OTCjLa6Sj7t dZcQxNufsDSCSB+yznIGzFGXXpJk7GgKmX3H9Zl4E6zJTQGXL2GAV4klkSfNtvgs SGJKqCnebuZVwutyq1vXRNVFPQFvLVVo2jJCBHWjb03fmXmavIUtRCHoc8xgVJMQ LrwvS943GgsqSbdoKZWdTnfnEq+UaGo+Qfv66NpT3Yl0CXUiNBITZOJcJdjHDTBO XRqomX2WSguv+btYdhQGGQiaEx73XMftXNCxbOpqwsODQns7xTcl2ENru9BNIQME I7L9FYBQUiKHm1k6RrBy1as8XElS2jEos7GAmlfF1wShFUX+NF1VOPdbN3ZdFoWq sUjKk+QbrwADBQgA9DiD4+uuRhwk2B1TmtrXnwwhcdkE7ZbLHjxBfCsLPAZiPh8c ICfV3S418i4H1YCz2ItcnC8KAPoS6mipyS28AU1B7zJYPODBn8E7aPSPzHJfudMK MqiCHljVJrE23xsKTC0sIhhSKcr2G+6ARoG5lwuoqJqEyDrblVQQFpVxBNPHSTqu O5PoLXQc7PKgC5SyQuZbEALEkItl2SL2yBRRGOlVJLnvZ6eaovkAlgsbGdlieOr0 UwWuJCwzZuBDruMYAfyQBvYfXZun3Zm84rW7Jclp18mXITwGCVHg/P5n7QMbBfZQ A25ymkuj636Nqh+c4zRnSINfyrDcID7AcqEb6IhJBBgRAgAJBQJJCfqnAhsMAAoJ EBjAnoZeyUihPrcAniVWl5M44RuGctJe+IMNX4eVkC08AJ9v7cXsp5uDdQNo8q3R 8RHwN4Gk8w== =3FTe -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- It's also at http://www.bitcoin.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc

mmalmi@cc.hut.fi to Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com> · 7 December 2010, 02:37 UTC · original

Attached is the root password encrypted.

Thanks, did you finish moving bitcoinexchange to another server?

I moved all the files, database and bitcoind, but still some work needed to get it running. The old site is down atm anyway, so feel free to reboot if needed.