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kg notes that we're still getting occasional Internal Server Errors. I know why it's happening, I think I know how to stop it but it's going to involve stopping the forum for 15 minutes of downtime.

Depending on what we decide as a long-term fix we may also have a one-day merry-go-round if we need to adjust the nameservers. I'll try to reduce that to as short a time as I can, and I'll give two days' notice before making the adjustment. Other than that, none of the periods of downtime should exceed a quarter of an hour and they'll all of them have a "system down" page rather than just no response.

The server did lock up for ten minutes an hour or so ago - that was me. I'll be more careful next time.
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doesn't worry me . If the wind changes direction I lose my wideband connection. lol

The server did lock up for ten minutes an hour or so ago - that was me. I'll be more careful next time.


Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha poor spot. :)
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spot;1370745 wrote: kg notes that we're still getting occasional Internal Server Errors. I know why it's happening, I think I know how to stop it but it's going to involve stopping the forum for 15 minutes of downtime.

Depending on what we decide as a long-term fix we may also have a one-day merry-go-round if we need to adjust the nameservers. I'll try to reduce that to as short a time as I can, and I'll give two days' notice before making the adjustment. Other than that, none of the periods of downtime should exceed a quarter of an hour and they'll all of them have a "system down" page rather than just no response.

The server did lock up for ten minutes an hour or so ago - that was me. I'll be more careful next time.


OK but twenty pages of error messages to wake up to - you could have warned me first! I nearly had a heart attack :wah:
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I'm going to try that again in an hour.
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When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
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When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1370745 wrote: kg notes that we're still getting occasional Internal Server Errors. I know why it's happening, I think I know how to stop it but it's going to involve stopping the forum for 15 minutes of downtime.

Depending on what we decide as a long-term fix we may also have a one-day merry-go-round if we need to adjust the nameservers. I'll try to reduce that to as short a time as I can, and I'll give two days' notice before making the adjustment. Other than that, none of the periods of downtime should exceed a quarter of an hour and they'll all of them have a "system down" page rather than just no response.


Only been here three days, and I'm already stirring up all kinds of trouble. :o

See how I am? :sneaky:
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ohhhhh. Do it again!!!!

If you pay real close attention there's a momentary high right before the crash and you can see through the veil of existence.
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We're back, we regret having taken 80 minutes instead of the 20 minutes I thought it should be, we crashed a couple of times unexpectedly.

No more outage anticipated until next week.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.

When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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I was on pins and needles.
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I'm notified by the host that FG was down for perhaps a half hour between three and two hours ago. A somewhat bemused Admin offers his apologies.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.

When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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