FlatTurtle Blog

Master server issues

Due to a hard drive crash at our cloud provider, our master server (“the brain”) got a mayor latency spike in I/O, which caused the partitions to become read-only.

The easiest solution was the reboot the server, but due to a massive amount of other servers rebooting simultaneously it took longer than expected for the server to come back online. It also had to go through an entire disk filesystem check, which added up to the wait time.

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FlatTurtle provides internet to Silver Building

And while doing it, we made sure it’s ready for the future.

As proof, from the Silver Building lobby:

$ ping6 flatturtle.com  
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a02:578:85f6:100:5058:eb50:fbe6:74dc ->
2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:feae:7e4d  
16 bytes from 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:feae:7e4d, icmp_seq=0 hlim=51 time=170.469 ms  
16 bytes from 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:feae:7e4d, icmp_seq=1 hlim=51 time=183.309 ms  
16 bytes from 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:feae:7e4d, icmp_seq=2 hlim=51 time=35.489 ms  
16 bytes from 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:feae:7e4d, icmp_seq=3 hlim=51 time=35.180 ms  
-- flatturtle.com ping6 statistics --  
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss  
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 35.180/106.112/183.309/70.923 ms

IPv6 all the way!

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IVG

IVG, one of Europe’s major real estate and infrastructure companies, upgraded their Cluster Center near the Brussels Airport with a FlatTurtle, enriching day-to-day experience in and around their current office building for their customers Toyota Belgum, Anixton, Erco Lighting

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FlatTurtle proudly supports the 37th “Brosella Folk & Jazz Festival” ; a weekend of cosy delight at a fabulous location near the Atomium, guaranteeing a unique atmosphere and excellent acoustics. This July 13 and14.

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BT is now Turtling!

MIVB: Data correctly displayed again

Problem has been solved for now.

We’re in touch with MIVB to prevent this from happening again.

MIVB: missing information

MIVB has provided us once again with missing data.

There is data again in their database starting 9/7. Until then, no information will be displayed.

News / RSS is back

This issue has been resolved. Only images are not displayed yet. We’re working on an update for this.

News / RSS issue

Due to Google sunsetting Google Reader API, the RSS and news feed have been offline since 1 July.

We’re working on an alternative, and hope to release this soon.

Missing STIB/MIVB

Has correctly been resolved 8th of June.

All systems are operational!