The host has now finished its maintenance. Very sorry for any inconvenience. I’ll be looking into running multiple servers in the near future in order to keep operating in the event of an outage on one server.

This is from the host. Fill PDF Service is affected (sorry about this).

ldni:

Emergency maintenance is currently taking place affecting customers on the following host nodes:

XEN1, OVZ1

As part of this process we have taken the opportunity to migrate the racks of these servers, as such maintenance would have had to have been planned anyway. 

We anticipate all work will be finished by 03:30AM GMT today. If your VM remains unavailable beyond this time, please contact support.

Please accept our apologies for the trouble.

The host finished the migration, and we’re back. The site’s IP has changed (and the SSL site’s IP will change once more, probably today), so if you rely on these, keep that in mind.

Other than that, full steam ahead.

My host has decided to migrate the server running Fill PDF Service to what should actually be a better location for most users. This is scheduled to happen sometime during a 4-hour window on Sunday, February 26. The window within which this will happen is 5 AM-9 AM Pacific Standard Time (13:00-17:00 GMT).

Please plan accordingly.

I’m finding that when databases get larger than 100 megs or so, full-database dumps and restores are not as practical. Given that I normally work with Drupal, what can I do to avoid needing to do a full dump-and-restore? I don’t really want to figure out how all the tables relate to one another every time, but some sort of differential dump (only dump what’s changed since last dump) would be nice.

The idea is that if I only run one update script, which only touches a few tables, then I only want to restore those tables to how they were. I shouldn’t have to sit through 20 minutes of restoration because of a mistake that took a few seconds to happen.

Tips veeeery welcome!

(And I’m using MySQL.)

This was inadvertently posted on Kevin Kaland’s Developer Blog 2 weeks ago. They share the same Tumblr account.

The intermediate certificate used to configure SSL on https://fillpdf-service.com was the incorrect one for when the SSL certificate was generated. This caused errors on some browsers and for users connecting to the service over SSL.

This is has now been corrected, and http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=fillpdf-service.com confirms that the certificate is now trusted in all browsers.

Apologies again for the trouble. And, just to mention it again, Fill PDF Service has always had a valid SSL certificate from the day it began offering SSL connections.

fillpdf-service.com has always had a valid SSL certificate ever since it started offering SSL as a transport for sending your PDF data from an implementing application. However, technical issues were showing the certificate as untrusted in browsers (I’m uncertain when this started).

That technical issue has now been corrected, and the certificate should show up as trusted in your browser now. You may have to restart your browser or computer before it does as the old one may be cached.

As always, get in touch if you have any questions or concerns.

I apologize for the intermittent downtime that has still been occurring with the service and have implemented additional protections today so that downtime of more than 15 minutes (at the very worst) should never occur.

If the service has been down for more than 15 minutes, please contact me. Please don’t use the Contact link on this site if the one on the main site is working! I only get so many submissions per month, and if yours is about the service being down I want to receive it!

You can also post on my Facebook wall or mention me on Twitter.

Hi folks - there should be no more unplanned interruptions to Fill PDF Service. Planned maintenance will be announced ahead of time. There will be some coming up in the future to improve the service. More to come on that.

Fill PDF Service is currently experiencing intermittent service interruptions. I’m working on fixing them, and my monitoring service informs me of any issues, so I can get things going again quickly when they do occur. If it’s been more than a half hour and your connections are timing out, please tweet me @FillPDF or send me an email if you already know the address.

Thank you for your patience.