Muscle memory finally pays off. MeTa is back! [more inside]
posted by carsonb on Jan 26, 2009 - 126 comments

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.
posted by teleskiving on Jun 4, 2007 - 20 comments

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)
posted by empath on Oct 4, 2006 - 44 comments

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 on Feb 13, 2006 - 26 comments

So alas, one of the processor fans in the MetaFilter server decided to up and die, which coincided perfectly with a planned vacation to New York. Upon coming back, no replacement fan was to be found on my doorstep (due to stupid delayed shipping by the company from whom the replacement was ordered), so a trip to CompUSA later, we're back in business. Sorry 'bout that.
posted by delfuego on Feb 16, 2004 - 78 comments

so, what happened to mefi tuesday evening?
posted by quonsar on Oct 8, 2003 - 22 comments

"Error Occurred While Processing Request" - Is it just me, or is Metafilter down?
posted by pracowity on Apr 30, 2002 - 35 comments

We're back!

Now what the hell happened?
posted by joemaller on Apr 23, 2002 - 70 comments

Since about 6:00am PST, I must have had about 30+ server timeouts like so:

Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
Request canceled or ignored by serverServer busy or unable to fulfill request. The server is unable to fulfill your request due to extremely high traffic or an unexpected internal error. Please attempt your request again (if you are repeatedly unsuccessful you should notify the site administrator). (Location Code: 26)

Anyone else having problems?
posted by davehat on Dec 12, 2001 - 8 comments

Sorry about the server probs this afternoon (more)
posted by mathowie on Sep 28, 2001 - 5 comments

So glad to be able to get here. Downtime? What happened?
posted by bjgeiger on Sep 8, 2001 - 4 comments

There were DNS issues today, there might be more soon, as I switch to new servers. Beware.
posted by mathowie on Mar 8, 2001 - 0 comments