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Gallery: MobiCamp

December 26, 2006 by Matthew

It's no secret that Mobile market keeps heating up with more and more companies offering services and applications that can help your life on the go (including us!). Much like our friends at CaseCamp, MobiCamp is an un-conference that's geared to those people who are interested in happenings with mobile services.

Leave behind the approved corporate messages. MobiCamp is where you'll hear things that need to be said from voices that need to be heard. It's where you'll be enlightened by new ideas and inspired by creative thinkers. It's the stuff we need, but these days so rarely find, at our industry gatherings.

The next conference is scheduled for Miami in the Spring of 2007, so prepare your calendars and signup to the wiki to keep informed!

Simple Automated Backups Tip

December 22, 2006 by Jonathan

One of our users posed a question to us the other day asking how they could automate backups of their wiki. Using our REST API to handle authentication, we figured out that the following command-line snippet provides a handy way to download the latest export of your wiki!

wget --http-user=email@address.com \
--http-password=yourpassword \
--header="Accept: application/xml" \
-O sp-backup.zip \
http://account.stikipad.com/wikiname/export_markup

Just copy and paste, fill in the values for your e-mail address, password, StikiPad URL and you're set!

Scheduled Maintenance

December 5, 2006 by Jonathan

We will be taking Stikipad offline this evening from 12:30 A.M. to 1:30 A.M. CST (-6) to migrate to our new clustered setup. As we've grown over the past few months, we've been preparing for this day to come and I'm proud to say that it has arrived. This will be a phased rollout, with the first phase consisting of additional hardware being added to the mix to help serve the load and provide failover support.

Along with the hardware updates, we will be moving away from Lighttpd and FastCGI to a Pound/Mongrel setup. Lighttpd has served our needs well since we launched, but unfortunately the stability of mod_proxy has bitten us once too many times.

Phase 2 will include moving all of our user attachments over to Amazon's brilliant S3 service. This will enable us to more easily add additional hardware at a later time, without the overhead of syncing assets between machines. More details to come before we make that move.