Yeah, I think there were general internet issues today.
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Jesse - Jul 31, 2003 1:52:17 pm PDT #4430 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
RobertH - Jul 31, 2003 10:59:47 pm PDT #4431 of 10000
Disaffected college student
Why should it be a complete sentence?
A) It has a period at the end.
B) I said I didn't care (and wrote it in teeny text), because
C) I write incomplete sentences all the time on purpose. Like this one.
"All the news that's fit to print" isn't a complete sentence either.
Nor is it often truthful on that publication's part.
Kidding aside, does the NYT put a period after it?
Michele T. - Aug 01, 2003 8:17:22 am PDT #4432 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
No, it does not.
Really slow connections today.
Wolfram - Aug 01, 2003 8:24:55 am PDT #4433 of 10000
Visilurking
Is it just me, or is it impossible to get on this site today?
Noumenon - Aug 01, 2003 9:10:41 am PDT #4434 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I actually got a "Page Suspended" from fangeek the first time I tried today. I just finished registering at Peoplesforum.
DXMachina - Aug 01, 2003 9:11:26 am PDT #4435 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah, do we know what was the up?
Laura - Aug 01, 2003 9:11:51 am PDT #4436 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
I have had no trouble getting in, but at times it has been very slow.
Jessica - Aug 01, 2003 9:12:05 am PDT #4437 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Since that blip where we were offline completely, it's been running quite speedily for me. Faster than it's been all day.
Monique - Aug 01, 2003 9:36:52 am PDT #4438 of 10000
Yeah, do we know what was the up?
We're looking into what the deal was with the suspended page right now. Kristen or I will provide a report once we've learned more. I apologize for the difficulties you guys may have experienced today, and I thank you for not hunting one or both of us down. ... Unless you've already sent out the lynching parties, in which case, I should probably be hunting for a hidey-space?
Kristen - Aug 01, 2003 10:07:23 am PDT #4439 of 10000
As I'm sure you noticed, we had a bit of an outage this morning. Some of you may have even seen a suspended page. The short version is that y'all talk too much. The long version is...well, a little longer.
This morning, Monique and I received an email from IH in which they informed us that this site was starting to outgrow a shared hosting environment and that it was bogging down the server. There's a possibility that on the newer, faster server, it won't be such an issue but we were urged to consider dedicated hosting.
As I'm reading the email, the site goes down.
I respond, a little pissed and very perplexed, given the number of conversations we had with them prior to moving in. I ask for some clarification.
IH informs me that, while they did not anticipate any problems with the site, they simply weren't expecting "over 200 concurrent mysql connections at the same time". They had no way of predicting that. They informed us that we are the reason the server has been so slow of late. They also suggested that we modify our code, as they believe the script we're using is the problem.
My response to this is that, while I will discuss it with you [Buffistas], I'm a little confused as to why I'm just hearing about this now. Both Monique and I have had conversations with them in the past few weeks about the slowness and other issues and, at no time, did they tell us it was due to our usage. Yadda yadda yadda. More stuff that really is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
IH mentions that they think if we "optimize the database queries" that will help a lot. It isn't our bandwidth usage that is the issue, it's our resource usage.
So here's the issue. As I have already recommended to ita, we should try and optimize the queries, if possible. Finding other ways to use fewer resources would also be good. The new server may also buy us some time.
But the bottom line is that if we are truly using "200 concurrent mysql connections at the same time" on a Friday morning in August, I don't think there's a shared hosting environment in all the world that's going to be able to host us for very long come the fall. I really am starting to believe that this board needs a dedicated server to exist peacefully on the net.