Downtime

February 13, 2006 1:09 PM

Sorry about the downtime today, it looks like some comment spammers were DoSing the box with requests for long-dead trackback URLs. After that was cleaned up, some other weird bugs kept the server unavailable for a few hours, but things should be back to normal now.
posted by mathowie (staff) to Uptime at 1:09 PM (26 comments total)

thanks, math
posted by grateful at 1:11 PM on February 13, 2006

owie.
posted by grateful at 1:11 PM on February 13, 2006

beedogs.com has been updated as well.
posted by wakko at 1:16 PM on February 13, 2006

AxMe is still down.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:16 PM on February 13, 2006

somebody cheerfully took a shit in AskMe's lifeless mouth?
posted by matteo at 1:54 PM on February 13, 2006

must ... stop ... shaking
posted by monju_bosatsu at 1:57 PM on February 13, 2006

AxMe is up, alive, shitless mouth.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:58 PM on February 13, 2006

Speaking of which:

That other thread made me realize, to my horror, that I have a long-hidden fetish for shitting in lifeless corpse's mouths.

Do I call a shrink, or do I get a job in a mortuary? So much to ponder.
posted by Astro Zombie at 2:10 PM on February 13, 2006

Crummy morning, Matt. Do you have a beer fund for contributions? I bet you need one. :)
posted by Malor at 2:13 PM on February 13, 2006

i don't seem to be able to connect to the jabber server.
posted by quonsar at 2:56 PM on February 13, 2006

Astro Zombie writes "Do I call a shrink, or do I get a job in a mortuary? So much to ponder."

Now *there*'s a question for AxMe.
posted by clevershark at 3:01 PM on February 13, 2006

The Wrath Of Rothko Is Upon Us !
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:03 PM on February 13, 2006

AskMe seems to have a special Valentine lover; it's still getting a massage.
posted by boo_radley at 3:15 PM on February 13, 2006

I took the jabber server down while I worked on this. Once everything is completely back to normal, I'll turn it back on.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:15 PM on February 13, 2006

boo_radley, force a refresh of your browser.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:16 PM on February 13, 2006

AskMe is for lovers.
posted by Astro Zombie at 3:19 PM on February 13, 2006

You took the time to apologize for someting that's not even your fault.

It's all good.
posted by mystyk at 3:27 PM on February 13, 2006

Doesn't sound like such a fun morning. Thanks for the hard work. - luv m
posted by mischief at 3:48 PM on February 13, 2006

You took the time to apologize for someting that's not even your fault.

You presume too much. He was up all goddam night driving around and egging comment spammers' houses and hitting on their girlfriends and failing to tip those among them who moonlight at local late-night diners. I wasn't there, mind you, but I understand that he even killed one and shat in the mouth of the lifeless corpse thereof.

His uppance has merely come!
posted by cortex at 4:01 PM on February 13, 2006

Once everything is completely back to normal

As if!
posted by kindall at 4:02 PM on February 13, 2006

grateful: "thanks, math"

1) Eponysterical.
2) Math deserves our thanks every day.
3) So does Matt. Thanks, Matt.
posted by Plutor at 4:07 PM on February 13, 2006

Malor: "Crummy morning, Matt. Do you have a beer fund for contributions? I bet you need one. :)"

Create a sockpuppet and he'll get $5. Make it a joke username, like "Mefi's Masseur" and you can.. er.. what's the point of doing that?
posted by Plutor at 4:09 PM on February 13, 2006

and he kept honking the squeaky-horn on his recumbant bike, just again and again and again, huh-HONK, huh-HONK, huh-HONK

you could see the spammers eyes twitchin' something fierce
posted by cortex at 4:28 PM on February 13, 2006

Good idea, Plutor. Done. :-)
posted by Beer Fund at 4:52 PM on February 13, 2006

The Wrath Of Rothko Is Upon Us !

Brand New Day, cunto, Brand New Day.
posted by jack_mo at 7:26 PM on February 13, 2006

Fuck Brand New Day. Let's have an Unholy Vengeance of Ryvar Day.
posted by Ryvar at 9:11 AM on February 17, 2006