Astronomy Cast
@astronomycast.com
Take a facts-based journey through the cosmos and discover how we know what we know. With hosts Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay. Recorded live on YouTube.
Yup - that was through Libsyn - they are our host and insert ads. We have some guidelines (no porn), but I guess we may need to see if we can add no tobacco related products if that's an option :-/
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Yup - that was through Libsyn - they are our host and insert ads. We have some guidelines (no porn), but I guess we may need to see if we can add no tobacco related products if that's an option :-/
Zyn? Was this an ad on our Libsyn feed?
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Zyn? Was this an ad on our Libsyn feed?
We have been dealing with a DDOS attack, and I'm still recovering things from having to spin up a new server. Things will get fixed next week after I have slept 😴
October 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We have been dealing with a DDOS attack, and I'm still recovering things from having to spin up a new server. Things will get fixed next week after I have slept 😴
(We may have blocked China. That may have been a solution...)
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
(We may have blocked China. That may have been a solution...)
We are back and actually taking down the "fixing things" message.
September 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
We are back and actually taking down the "fixing things" message.
We are going to solve this with money for the weekend. We took the server offline, we are taking an image of the new server and spinning up a much bigger server by Tuesday. We will like have regrets come Oct 6, but ...
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
We are going to solve this with money for the weekend. We took the server offline, we are taking an image of the new server and spinning up a much bigger server by Tuesday. We will like have regrets come Oct 6, but ...
Wordpress has a coming soon page up, Pamela is getting food and, ah, coffee 5. Stay tuned. The issue seems to be the database. It is running a study 43.8% of memory and we do not know why.
September 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Wordpress has a coming soon page up, Pamela is getting food and, ah, coffee 5. Stay tuned. The issue seems to be the database. It is running a study 43.8% of memory and we do not know why.
8 minutes. They let us have 8 minutes
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
8 minutes. They let us have 8 minutes
And we're back down.
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
And we're back down.
Pamela here - we are up on a new server. I'm not entirely convinced there aren't ghosts in the database, but we're going to try this.
September 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Pamela here - we are up on a new server. I'm not entirely convinced there aren't ghosts in the database, but we're going to try this.
She is kind of running solo with scissors.
September 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
She is kind of running solo with scissors.
side note 2: We have learned Pamela is still in her pajamas. She found the server dead that early in her day.
Seriously - coffee money: planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com?campaign=132...
Seriously - coffee money: planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com?campaign=132...
Planetary Science Institute | Kindful
planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
side note 2: We have learned Pamela is still in her pajamas. She found the server dead that early in her day.
Seriously - coffee money: planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com?campaign=132...
Seriously - coffee money: planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com?campaign=132...
Side note - Our team at PSI are all hourly. Pamela is not getting paid at the moment. If you want to thank her for today's hellscape of server battles, drop coffee money in CosmoQuest's account ? planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com?campaign=132...
Planetary Science Institute | Kindful
planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Side note - Our team at PSI are all hourly. Pamela is not getting paid at the moment. If you want to thank her for today's hellscape of server battles, drop coffee money in CosmoQuest's account ? planetaryscienceinstitute.kindful.com?campaign=132...
At that point, she made coffee 4, tried again, & got a working server up & running... until she started importing the database. It then fell over. She is now trying to figure out where it was when it fell over. But hey - there is a page up.
We are all hoping coffee 5 can be avoided.
We are all hoping coffee 5 can be avoided.
September 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
At that point, she made coffee 4, tried again, & got a working server up & running... until she started importing the database. It then fell over. She is now trying to figure out where it was when it fell over. But hey - there is a page up.
We are all hoping coffee 5 can be avoided.
We are all hoping coffee 5 can be avoided.
Pamela ( @starstryder.space ) has spent the entire day rebuilding. The first backup (an image of the VM) was kaput. Pamela tried spinning up VMs 3 times before giving up. She also had a DB backup, and backup of wp-content. On VM 4 she tried to use those... filled the drive (5 & 50 are not the same)
September 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Pamela ( @starstryder.space ) has spent the entire day rebuilding. The first backup (an image of the VM) was kaput. Pamela tried spinning up VMs 3 times before giving up. She also had a DB backup, and backup of wp-content. On VM 4 she tried to use those... filled the drive (5 & 50 are not the same)