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A couple of things have been happening after the API server started to melt down. The first thing is that we have migrated the primary host to a Shard Hosting server. The guys at Shard were quite happy to provide us a box that is more that appropriately sized for our needs. The new server has been running happily, and most people haven't noticed any difference. That being said, we are now looking into whats needed to start scaling to multiple hosts to help prevent this issue in the future. The hosts have undergone some minor renaming to help differentiate them, and we have also been implementing a VPN back-end in order to facilitate replicating database changes between the hosts. Some code changes are needed in order to support the replicated back-end, however that should go live within the next week or so.

However one of the main things we wanted to point out is something you can see, touch, and use. New in the BukGet stats page is the API checker. What your looking at is a basic Javascript app to check all of the API calls and look to make sure that we are getting a good response back from the API. If anything throws a 500 error or times out, it will show up as red. This is a great way to check to see if the API is up and running as expected and should allow everyone to see if something has gone wrong with the API and needs to be addressed.

BukGet is currently in an unstable state. A new server is currently being built from scratch to take over the old server, and the eventual goal is to add both of them to a round-robin DNS chain. As it sits right now, the DB is consuming all of the available ...

Today I pushed the latest packages of Dofler and DoflerSVC (the Server is now a seperate package). The WebUI and JSON API have been completely recoded from scratch to talk to MongoDB instead of MySQL and to also be more configurable as well. There is also a new stats trending ...

BukGet now has a new function in API3, popularity ratings. These popularity ratings are based on the number of calls to the API for a specific plugin. We have been waitgin to release this publicly until there was enough data in the trending collection to get weekly and monthly trends ...

Sometimes the repercussions of fixing the smallest of things have the largest impact. As you may (or may not) notice, the URL structure to the Blog has changed a little. I was running into issues with tags and categories with the new theme, however didnt know until I was alerted ...

As there are some people using pySecurityCenter now to interface with Security Center, I thought I would highlight a slightly more advanced way of working with queries in the host. Instead of querying for the whole dataset, which can potentially be larger than your available Ram, you can instead process ...

The development code-base has now been promoted to the production URL (api.bukget.org). The dev URL (dev.bukget.org) will remain off-line for the rest of the week in order to try to push anyone who was coding to the dev URL to move to production. Keep in mind ...

The development code-base at dev.bukget.org will be moved to the production URL (api.bukget.org) on January 15th. If anyone still needs to test their code-base against the new one, you still have a bit over a week before the migration happens. As there is no dev code ...

So I had run into an interesting situation with a customer today. They wanted to deploy some of our software in their virtual environment. Generally a completely normal endeavor however in this specific instance, they had an Hyper-V deployment, not a typical VMWare installation like what I normally see. Understandably ...

After working on the websites for BukGet, CUGNet, and Import Challenge, I figured it was time to get away from the default theme that pelican came with. I did tweak it a bit, but lets be honest...it was pretty ugly. This new theme is simple, clean, and effective. I ...