MetaTalk posts tagged with server

What does the metafilter server look like?

6am — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:43:15 -0800

Tanks for the new server. Can we see a picture of it? In the true spirit of childlike curiosity combined with a let's-acknowledge-things-that-we-take-for-grantedness...can I see a picture of the metafilter server? Or am I being dense and it's actually hosted by some company far-off? It makes me wonder about what google servers actually look like, or any other site I visit regularly for that matter.

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.

Weeee're back

mathowie — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:11:17 -0800

Ugh. Ok, we should be back now, mostly working. I'm sure there are lots of little things I need to fix and I'll try and get things going over the next couple days.

Apache error

xammerboy — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:32:52 -0800

Help! I see this message instead of the Metafilter homepage?

If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Apache web server software on this system was successful. You may now add content to this directory and replace this page.

RSS feed for each user

armoured-ant — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:01:29 -0800

Daddy, I want a pony.
Further to me asking this, I'd love it if Matt would make a(nother) RSS feed for each user, listing all of their contributions (posts and comments [or maybe just posts?]) - basically, a what-I-said-on-MeFi Feed. Is it a big strain on the server, making these feeds? There seem to be a lot per-user already.

DNS weirdness.

mendel — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:05:53 -0800

Metafilter's DNS is broken. (More inside.)

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? :)

Server log retention policy?

theora55 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:45:04 -0800

So, Matt, what are your server log retention policies. This is not a snark, it's a serious question. I'm American, and I don't trust my government.

Bandwidth costs of snark

Balisong — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:23:56 -0800

What uses less bandwith, posts that are calling out people being stupid or hypocritical, or MeTa posts that are calling out the deletion of posts that call out people that are being stupid or hypocritical?

Server is still starting up

bat — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:57:15 -0800

Ask MetaFilter post message has spazzed out and I keep getting server errors ("Server is still starting up"??).

I just thought I'd impart this thrilling news for your edification and reading pleasure.

I'm done now.

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.

creaky server, creaky software

mathowie — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:44:26 -0800

creaky server, creaky software [mi]

last 50 posts for everyone

mathowie — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:55:38 -0800

I've swapped in the new mefi homepage showing the last 50 posts for everyone, including non-members. You can use the links at the bottom to page through more results. Gone is the feature that let you customize how many days to show on the front page, but on the positive side, this should make for a much better use of server resources.

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.

Outage, whoops

mathowie — Wed, 04 May 2005 17:44:12 -0800

Sorry about that, but for the first time since I started hosting mefi at server matrix, there was an outage:

D2 OUTAGE: www.metafilter.com Last Updated: 05/04/2005 19:05:17 Details: This server did not come back online after reboot. We will investigate shortly.

(bwalker-05/04/2005 19:05:17): This server would not power on. We have swapped the chassis and this machine is now powered up and responding to ping and RDC.

But all should be good now.

Guy with server inside his body?

fizz-ed — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:36:53 -0800

I've been trying to track down a post about a guy who had a server (from which he was hosting his site) inside his body. Does anyone remember this or have I just gone mental and imagined the whole thing?

connection failure??

bob sarabia — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:10:23 -0800

from looking at this thread, hoder mentioned a thread that (presumably) I made and that was deleted. I tried to go to the page in question, http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/35470, and got a "connection failure" notice. What's up wit dat, yo?

Moving metafilter to new server

mathowie — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:11:01 -0800

Moving on up... If all goes well, I'll start moving everything over to our new servers later today. When that happens, I'll be shutting the site off during the move (to conserve bandwidth for moving actual files). Just a heads up that the site may be down between now and say, Monday at the latest.

Why does talespin.net have the same DNS as MetaFilter?

soundofsuburbia — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 05:19:05 -0800

talespin.net = MetaFilter? Weird.

Coral links prevent mefi-effect

vacapinta — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:29:33 -0800

The future of the Internet? If your posted site is getting mefi'ed, you might consider also providing a link from Coral. Coral is a p2p network that replicates content across participating servers. Heres metafilter through Coral.

Is there any way we can help to ensure MeFi uptime?

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 06 May 2004 16:45:43 -0800

Is there any way we unfortunate non-Californians can help to ensure that MetaFilter becomes a 24-hour operation once more? [More inside.]

How to reduce server load on large threads

y6y6y6 — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:46:25 -0800

Okay, since I sort of wasted my last MeTa post by being too fast on the draw, how about something more constructive. I think we could save a great deal of overhead on the server by changing the way 100+ post threads are displayed.

The timeout setting is pretty low right now.

billsaysthis — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:25:52 -0800

These days there's enough traffic on MeFi (which is a good thing) that it takes a while, what with interruptions and such, to get through all the new links, comments, and new comments on previously-seen threads. So Matt, could you increase the timeout setting (or make it configurable on the User Page) for deciding when to update the new comments count? Thanks!