View Full Version : Downtime today
Lincoln
28 Sep 2009, 11:10pm
We experienced a significant stretch of downtime today. We're still investigating the source, but we're pretty certain it isn't a hardware problem or a sudden traffic surge. We'll let you know more when we do.
I've temporarily disabled some of the site's plugins to ease load on the database, but IRC is back up and running.
Lincoln
29 Sep 2009, 2:31am
We traced it to the Newest Posts plugin (which shows those 5 posts at the start of the forum index), which was doing too much work and in too many places due to some sloppiness on my part. When it found a new post with a ton of links to parse, things went south very quickly.
This, we believe, explains the very intermittent "database problems" we've been having over the last 6 months or so. It was actually a post with lots of links getting stuck in Newest Posts.
Nice to finally find the root of our issues; not so nice that it took most of the day to do so.
Winfrey
29 Sep 2009, 3:30am
This is why we pay you the big bucks!
Lincoln
29 Sep 2009, 3:34am
Awwww YEAH.
Koreish
29 Sep 2009, 5:26am
You get paid?!? With real money?
No he gets paid in Icrontic Fun Bucks. Its ok though, you can use them anywhere.
SPIKE09
29 Sep 2009, 8:12am
:thumbupTY for fixing it
FelixDeSouze
29 Sep 2009, 8:41am
Oh noes! I was worried, very worried :) -- But hey hey, it's sorted!! :)
RyderOCZ
29 Sep 2009, 2:49pm
No he gets paid in Icrontic Fun Bucks. Its ok though, you can use them anywhere.Fast on their way to becoming the new standard currency worldwide, RAWR!
with a big picture of snuffie in the middle on the $100 bills :o
UPSLynx
29 Sep 2009, 5:16pm
Just don't try to export, the TSA doesn't like that.
Snarkasm
29 Sep 2009, 7:28pm
We should totally have a SnuffieDog(TM) image as our downtime alert.
"Sorry, I slobbered on the mainboard again. We'll be back in a minute."
can we have a picture of Snuffie being carried away from ICHQ by birds?
/me thinks failwhale - errr, fail snuffie
Zuntar
30 Sep 2009, 5:33pm
No he gets paid in Icrontic Fun Bucks. Its ok though, you can use them anywhere.
;D
Lincoln
6 Nov 2009, 10:27pm
Ah, everything's under control, situation normal. Had a slight weapons malfunction, but ah....everything's perfectly alright now, we're fine....we're all fine here now, thank you - how are you?
Apologies for the 6 hours of downtime today :-/ All sorted now.
Winfrey
6 Nov 2009, 10:30pm
That's 6 hours of Icrontic I won't be able to get back :(
Snarkasm
6 Nov 2009, 10:32pm
That conversation was boring anyway. Look out, we're about to get some company!
Grimnoc
6 Nov 2009, 10:32pm
Seriously though Lincoln, thanks for the all work you put in to get it back up and running (and the continual work on the site).
Cliff_Forster
6 Nov 2009, 10:49pm
That conversation was boring anyway. Look out, we're about to get some company!
Wookie battle cry!
primesuspect
6 Nov 2009, 10:54pm
Who is this? What is your operator number?
Cliff_Forster
6 Nov 2009, 10:56pm
You know, something about Star Wars just makes it all better. Everything is better with Star Wars.
and I thought downtime looked bad on the <i>out</i>side.
Cliff_Forster
6 Nov 2009, 11:01pm
and I thought downtime looked bad on the <i>out</i>side.
That we both get that is awesome!
shwaip
6 Nov 2009, 11:02pm
/me makes out with his sister.
bindlestick
7 Nov 2009, 1:15am
* shwaip makes out with his sister.
Yub Yub
primesuspect
7 Nov 2009, 1:29am
I've got a bad feeling about this...
Snarkasm
7 Nov 2009, 11:19am
THERE IS NO TRY.
the_technocrat
7 Nov 2009, 12:55pm
THERE IS NO TRY.
Don't get cocky, kid.
Snarkasm
7 Nov 2009, 1:05pm
Search your heart - you know it to be true.
Myself, the boy, two droids... and no questions asked.
UPSLynx
7 Nov 2009, 4:01pm
thread crap?
STAY ON TARGET
Grimnoc
7 Nov 2009, 4:16pm
But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Snarkasm
7 Nov 2009, 5:25pm
Oh, I'm afraid this battlestation is fully operational...
Well why don't you outrun them? I thought you said this thing was fast!
Snarkasm
7 Nov 2009, 5:30pm
She'll do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
My hands are dirty, too. What are you afraid of?
Obsidian
7 Nov 2009, 5:56pm
What the hell...
primesuspect
8 Nov 2009, 1:50am
I suggest a new strategy...
Winfrey
8 Nov 2009, 1:57am
It was as if a million voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.
Koreish
8 Nov 2009, 2:22am
Good. Twice the pride, double the fall.
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
RyderOCZ
8 Nov 2009, 5:02am
I sense something, a presence I have not felt since......
AlexDeGruven
8 Nov 2009, 5:07am
Aren't you a little short to be a Storm Trooper?
primesuspect
8 Nov 2009, 5:22am
Nooooooooooooooooooo
AlexDeGruven
8 Nov 2009, 5:23am
^ Thread over.
Snarkasm
8 Nov 2009, 10:07am
THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!
AlexDeGruven
8 Nov 2009, 10:08am
That's no moon. That's a space station.
ardichoke
8 Nov 2009, 8:14pm
Damn fool, I knew you were going to say that.
Snarkasm
8 Nov 2009, 8:20pm
Look, it's not like that. She's my sister.
primesuspect
8 Nov 2009, 8:46pm
Don't make me destroy you
You have failed me for the last time, Admiral.
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chrisWhite
9 Nov 2009, 4:13am
Messa Ja...oh fuck it
Preacher
9 Nov 2009, 6:47am
You know, something about Star Wars just makes it all better. Everything is better with Star Wars.
Discriminating 3 Year Olds agree...
"Well. Well. Okay. The sand people capture robots and drive, and sell 'em in a garage sale - kinda like a garage sale but except they're selling robots. And no one's gonna buy R2 and the shiny guy - the shiny guy always worries - Luke's gonna buy those. And Obi Kenobi's a kinda teacher. He's teaching Luke how to learn how do to his little light-up-sword. He has to try to block the little pokie ball. He tried to do it without seeing. Obi Kenobi sometimes move things around, sometimes he disappears. Princess Leia got out a jail and out in the spaceship. And they got the big thing that blown up stuff, we blown it up together. It blown up Princess Leia's planet. But don't talk back to Darth Vader - he'll get ya. It's an exciting movie."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0
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