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Grrr. Server a bit borked...

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Tom Coates

22:01 / 17.07.05

Sorry for the downtime this evening - the server appeared to crash. Here's the e-mail from the hosts:

The server had crashed due to high load. I have already restarted it, and
everything should be running by now. If you continue to have problems with
it, please feel free to let us know

I'm a bit cross about this to be honest - I mean we're the only people using the damn thing...

paranoidwriter waves hello

23:35 / 21.02.06

Tom, FYI: I think it just happened again. For about five minutes, I got those server error messages every time I refreshed Safari, then it told me it couldn't access the Barbelith URL. Just so you know.

Smoothly

02:07 / 10.03.06

Is it just me or is Barbelith awfully slow tonight? I was also getting the old SQL errors this afternoon. Is there a problem with our server? Could it have anything to do with the higher than average activity over the last few days?

Stoatie's power level is >9000

02:11 / 10.03.06

It's been very slow the last couple of days- this afternoon especially.

Shrug: Butcher Boy
(prev. Green My Eyes)

02:14 / 10.03.06

It's been pretty msquly and slow for me lately too. I presumed it was my network. Maybe not though.

Mordant
(prev. This is *my* hole.)

02:32 / 10.03.06

No, we've had a bad attack of squirrels for the last day or two. More people logging on?

02:43 / 10.03.06

Well, there's been more board activity, I would certainly say.

Jack Denfeld

06:01 / 10.03.06

Thanks Tom. Coates rules!

astrojax69

03:12 / 16.03.06

i just got a lot of weird shit when i tried to open convo - tried in safari, firefox and netscape. but i can open other boards - obviously!

what gives? is it me? or is it memorex?

astrojax69

03:14 / 16.03.06

ooh, now head shop is gone twilight zone... but all other boards open up ok...

alas

03:28 / 16.03.06

Ah! I thought the slowness and constant stream of error messages were the result of some Mac demon. Well, hope it is all sorted and that it doesn't cause Tom too many headaches. (Thanks, Tom)

matthew.

05:22 / 16.03.06

Barbelith has been acting naughty. I got the error messages last night and the day before. Naughty messageboard. Behave.

astrojax69

05:54 / 16.03.06

ah... bueno, tom!

Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake

11:13 / 17.03.06

I wonder if this is some special weirdness going on right now or whether a month or two back board activity was down and Barbelith really was dying and Nina's Feminism thread has been one of the main things responsible for a Barbe-resurgence?

Semiotic Robotic

20:41 / 03.04.06

Anyone having trouble today? It's terrible on my end.

Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake

10:26 / 10.04.06

It seems to have been running slow since yesterday afternoon... for me at least.

Axolotl

21:20 / 10.04.06

I had quite a lot of trouble earlier in the evening, but I put it down to my shitty dial-up, until I opened another tab and got an instant response from another site.

Tom Coates

21:07 / 11.04.06

I really do wonder why this stuff happens, but to be honest, I suspect it's things out of my control that are responsible (ie. stuff happening on the server, or a particularly pernicious bot roaming around the place that pushes everything over the edge). Obviously keep me informed, and I'll do what I can about it.

Shiny: The Countdown to Thirty

22:45 / 18.04.06

Has anyone else found Barbelith has been way worse than usual for our old nemesis the SQL error messages today?

Chiropteran

22:48 / 18.04.06

Yes, since maybe about 2pm EST.

P. Horus Rhacoid

22:56 / 18.04.06

Yeah same here, but around noonish today I think. I've been having problems for the last couple days, actually.

Spyder Todd 2008

23:37 / 18.04.06

Everything got really crazy for me for about 20 minutes a couple hours ago, if tht helps any.

Mourne Kransky

23:44 / 18.04.06

My squirrels have been haunting us all night, off and on. C"est la vie: ce sont mes écureils...

Ganesh

00:00 / 19.04.06

Annoying.

matthew.

18:56 / 19.04.06

The past hour for me has been SQLed up the wazoo.

sibyline, beating Qalyn to a Q

19:33 / 19.04.06

working fine for me, if a bit slow when i post... is that why nobody's posting today?

Tom Coates

21:17 / 19.04.06

I'll tell you what's happening, because I've figured it out finally! It's bloody spidering by Yahoo and Googlebots - happening at the same time and crippling the server! Grr! Grr! I'm going to do some tweaking to try and stop them hammering the site so hard.

matthew.

21:53 / 19.04.06

Yay. I chocolate Tom Coates.