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The MySQL storage engine InnoDB is back online on the Johnny server. Thanks to the hard work of the Heliohost administrators this appears to be the last broken remnant from the high load induced crash that Johnny experienced during the wee hours of the morning of March 25th http://www.helionet.org/index/topic/15338-johnny-reboot/ If your website uses InnoDB databases we strongly encourage you to convert to the default engine MyISAM as this database engine performs much better in the case that Johnny crashes again. We will do everything in our power to prevent another crash like this from happening again, but unless you require any of the features specific to InnoDB it might be wisest to convert. If you are still experiencing any InnoDB related issues on the Johnny server please let us know by posting on this thread http://www.helionet.org/index/topic/15359-solved-johnny-innodb/ or starting a new topic, but at this time it looks like everything is working fine. The best news of all is it doesn't look like there was even any data loss for any website located on Johnny.

As a follow-up, registration is now open for the HelioHost website competition. Site registration, and later voting, will be done in the form of a survey, powered by LimeSurvey. To register your website you'll need to first register to take the survey, you'll receive an email with the link to the survey which consists of 3 questions, the same information required for a customer service request, username, server, and domain name. Once that's provided and you save your responses you are officially entered. Judging criteria and rules are explained in the survey so please do not rush to get to the juicy bits and read every page thoroughly. The survey starts at midnight and ends on midnight going into May 1st, at which point you'll have a new survey for judging websites. Judging will take place over a week or two's time, depending on voting patterns and the volume of sites registered. You can go ahead and register for the survey now, and take it later once it opens or whenever it's most convenient, at http://heliohost.org/home/website-contest -HelioHost Staff

All services on Johnny are now back online and fully tested. It seems that the unexpected crash of the Johnny server a few days ago caused problems with the apache and mysql configurations which didn't manifest until later. Apache has now been completely rebuilt from the ground up, and mysql is online but any databases which use the InnoDB engine are still offline at this time. The Heliohost staff are working to see if InnoDB access can be restored, or if not whether the databases can be converted.