.textdrive makes us .happy

You’ll all notice that there are some happy little .textdrive files in your logs folders, and your public_html (or web/public on davie) folders that contain the following text:

this file is non-deletable – if you have questions, please contact support@textdrive.com

Now what this file contains is not as important is what it is – a file that you’re not able to delete. That means if you try to delete your logs folder, or your public_html (or web/public) folder, it just ain’t gonna happen.

[pendrell:~] ryanschwartz$ rm -fR logs/
rm: logs/.textdrive: Operation not permitted
rm: logs/: Directory not empty

Now something you all should know is that most of the downtime we see here at TextDrive is due to one of two things:
1. People deleting their log or docroot folders.
2. People eating up all of MySQL’s 2GiB of allocated RAM and it dying.

Well, for the most part number 1 is not going to happen any more by accident. If you set up a custom DocumentRoot in the apache module of webmin, then you should know not to delete it. Please don’t. And if you do happen to do so, and it brings down apache for you and the other ~1000 domains on your server, we do reserve the right to enforce the TOS (see point 17 under Client Responsibilities)

That said, we’ll likely give you a freebie or two because we’re nice guys, and try to keep everyone humming along at the speed of TextDrive. Just play nice and fair with your friends in the sandbox and nobody gets a time out.

·:· Posted 31 May 2005, 02:38 by Ryan Schwartz to Apache  |  

  1. I’m “happy” that there’s something in there to prevent me from being an idiot for problem number one, but what could I do to avoid being the unwitting source of pain and agony for problem number two?

    I love Textdrive – it makes me happy. I even love Textpattern, though I don’t use it any more. It still makes me happy.

    I’m unhappy that I’m worried that I’ll be the next dufous to blow away the shared MySQL database. Is it just a risk I’ll have to take as a Textdrive user?

    I dunno…just some thoughts.

    — Nick Ryberg    1 June 2005, 02:55    #
  2. Hey, this is great news. Thanks guys. :)

    — Nathan Pitman    1 June 2005, 21:14    #