MetaTalk posts tagged with downtime

Wha' happen?

longsleeves — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:39:36 -0800

Who attacted Metafilter, How, and can they be tracked down and made to squeal?

A happy ending!

carsonb — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:47:40 -0800

Muscle memory finally pays off. MeTa is back! While mefi was getting a massage, how did you cope? Twittered Metafilter withdrawal triage recommendations.

Posting down?

stupidsexyFlanders — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:41:28 -0800

Can't post a comment to the blue. "Error—Comment Timed Out Your comment took too long to add. This happens when the server load is unusually high. Please use the back button on your browser to return to the comment form and try posting it again. Sorry for the inconvenience." "Your comment took too long to add?" Server overload I get (though I thought that had been addressed), but since when does the server care how long I take crafting my precious prose? Long story short, can't post to the blue.

Server upgrayedd (the extra d is for a double dose of downtime)

mathowie — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:59:17 -0800

We're in the process of updating the server. You probably noticed about 20min of downtime and things may be up and down throughout this evening but should resume and hopefully be faster later today and tomorrow.

Uptime is hugely improved

teleskiving — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:22:25 -0800

Uptime and performance have been awesome for me lately. In particular the days of long downtimes when the admins are asleep seem to be over. On behalf of UK mefites, thanks.

Hmm.

Totally Zanzibarin' Ya — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:24 -0800

Is this a bug? Or did everyone sleep in these three days? [more inside]

Why all the crashes?

empath — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0800

Why is metafilter so slow and crash-prone? I know it gets a huge amount of traffic, but what causes the regular outages? Do you guys need a new server or what? I can't think of another major site that experiences as much downtime as metafilter does. (i'm not criticizing, I know how difficult it is to run a site of this scale... just curiouis)

Woot, we're back up. Sorry about the downtime.

mathowie — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:25:05 -0800

Woot, we're back up. Sorry about the downtime.

What's up with the downtime?

antifuse — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:00:27 -0800

Any explanation for why Me* seems to be dying overnight again?

Why can't I reach Metafilter?

sjvilla79 — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:28:18 -0800

What is being done to curb the continuing amount of times that MetaFilter dies in the arse each day (e.g. when it's inaccessible)? Just wondering.

Are we still getting hit by DoS attacks?

antifuse — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:55:40 -0800

Is Metafilter still getting hammered a la this thread? I notice that just about every day this week, I have been unable to reach mefi at all in the morning time (GMT, say 8am till roughly 11 or noon). I thought it might just be my net connection at work, but my home connection has the same issues whenever it appears to be down.

Are we just undergoing backups or some-such thing at this time? Or does Ireland just disconnect from MeFi every morning for some reason? :)

Downtime

mathowie — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:09:16 -0800

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.

Is AskMe down? (Jan. 22, 2006)

By The Grace of God — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:21:13 -0800

Is AskMe down? Can't get to it via comments or the main page, on firefox or IE, on two separate computers. This is a new one - I've never noticed just one segment of the site going down before.

Downtime notice?

sjvilla79 — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:42:02 -0800

WhenMeFiIsDownFilter: Any chance we could see a message a la Flickr-style like MetaFilter is getting a massage and will return soon or something to that effect? Not trying to sound snarky, but ideally I think it'd be better than the hanging pages and timeouts we usually get.

What's with the downtime?

caddis — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:17:22 -0800

Matt: There has been lots of downtime lately. What's up?

Is Ask.Me broken?

knave — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:43:57 -0800

Is Ask.Me broken?

MeFi's down. Again.

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:00:55 -0800

Administrators! It seems to me that this website has been having a lot of downtime recently; well, this century. Do we know any more about what is causing it, and are there plans to combat this phantom menace?

Comedy of Server Errors

mathowie — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:16:03 -0800

Sorry for the downtime, I was tweaking one small aspect of the server when a comedy of errors ended up with two hours of hair pulling before the server was reachable once again. Everything should be back to normal now.

IP blockage error?

Harry Morgan — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:01:49 -0800

If my IP were blocked, would the symptoms be something like constantly getting a "Error Executing Database Query ... Server returned: No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?)" error, even though everyone else can connect just fine, until it occurs to me to ssh elsewhere and try connecting? At which point I get through fine?

cannot connect to jrun server

ralawrence — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:10:02 -0800

I've been unable to view any part of Meta for the past four and a half hours today because of a "cannot connect to jrun server" error. Whilst this doesn't normally bother me (it is quite a frequent occurance) I find that most of the time other people are still able to continue posting during this 'outage'. So how come it is completely broken for me but not for everyone else?

These days it seems like MeFi is down constantly

taz — Mon, 16 May 2005 04:03:42 -0800

Can I just make a frustration-vent post? These days it seems like MeFi is down constantly, several times a day, and to be honest... I'm getting to the point where I'm about ready to move on to another spot. The problem is that, for me, my main community site is like comfort food; it's a place that I can always pop into to see posts and comments from the people I know, and I can always fill in a time gap or soothe my real-life-related nerves by browsing there. But one of the things about comfort food is that it has to be easy and accessible, and lately, MeFi... isn't. So I have some questions...

Why does MetaFilter occasionally just wink out of existence?

CrunchyGods — Fri, 06 May 2005 17:52:55 -0800

I'm fairly new around these parts, so forgive me if this is stupid question, but why does MetaFilter occasionally just wink out of existence? This doesn't seem to happen to most of my other favorite sites.

fail!

scarabic — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:33:14 -0800

fail!

status.metafilter.com independent or not?

dash_slot- — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 06:46:08 -0800

Matt: when you setup status.metafilter.com, wasn't it supposed to be independent of the Mefi server? I don't get how come they were both down at the same time last night.

Anything we can do to help keep MeFi up?

johnnydark — Mon, 24 May 2004 07:21:51 -0800

Anything we can do to help keep MeFi up? Because these frequent downtimes are annoying me. I need my MeFi in the morning more than coffee.