No Avoiding Google April 16, 2013 11:00 PM Subscribe
I was initially trying to read the metafilter post There's No Avoiding Google+ and I kept getting a server error:
Your Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.64 Safari/537.31
I then tried searching for the post using the metafilter search box and the query "no avoiding google" and get the same server error (using both Chrome, and then Firefox and then IE).
I then found out that http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/metafilter.com shows that metafilter.com was down, but not http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.metafilter.com.
At first, I thought I was dealing with a Google conspiracy. I'm taking this as a sign to go to bed.
I then tried searching for the post using the metafilter search box and the query "no avoiding google" and get the same server error (using both Chrome, and then Firefox and then IE).
I then found out that http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/metafilter.com shows that metafilter.com was down, but not http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.metafilter.com.
At first, I thought I was dealing with a Google conspiracy. I'm taking this as a sign to go to bed.
Just some tinkering under the hood. Things should be mostly back to normal now. For future reference, you can check the status blog, and if something was planned (and will take more than a couple of minutes), it should show up there. Pb posted this there earlier: "We need to perform some server maintenance tonight at 10:00 PM Pacific Time. We plan to be offline for 30-40 minutes."
posted by taz (staff) at 11:03 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by taz (staff) at 11:03 PM on April 16, 2013
Sorry, everyone. Doing some maintenance tonight that's going a little longer than planned. We're going to be bumpy for a bit.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:06 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 11:06 PM on April 16, 2013
Yeah, looks like we ran into some major snags while updating the servers. We pointed the domain at the old backup/staging server while fixing things on the main server and as a result, there were a couple little things that weren't working, like the metafilter.com to www.metafilter.com bounce. It should be working now.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:07 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:07 PM on April 16, 2013
Folks who are using macs may have the DNS cached that was pointing to the part of the site that we switched back and forth from. This page may be helpful if parts of the site that should be up still appear to be not responding.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:08 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:08 PM on April 16, 2013
The archives can't be accessed, I get:
The archive you requested is not available.
__
The contact form can't be accessed, I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /contact/ on this server.
posted by unliteral at 11:10 PM on April 16, 2013
The archive you requested is not available.
__
The contact form can't be accessed, I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /contact/ on this server.
posted by unliteral at 11:10 PM on April 16, 2013
Just did the 'dscacheutil -flushcache' you pointed to jessamyn. Restarted Safari. Still no go.
posted by unliteral at 11:15 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by unliteral at 11:15 PM on April 16, 2013
The contact form should be working now. The archives won't be available until we move back to our main server, sorry about that.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:17 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 11:17 PM on April 16, 2013
I spoke too soon. The archives should be working now.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:36 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 11:36 PM on April 16, 2013
I don't know if it is related, but right now it looks like bestof.metafilter.com is returning a 403 Forbidden error.
posted by RichardP at 3:30 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by RichardP at 3:30 AM on April 17, 2013
I'm about 100% sure it's related. pb was up into the wee hours working things out, so he'll probably get that sorted when he wakes up.
posted by taz (staff) at 4:20 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by taz (staff) at 4:20 AM on April 17, 2013
Just to expand on empath's link a bit:
status.metafilter.com runs on Blogger servers (still, right?) and shows up even if the rest of the site is down. It's the first place you should look if metafilter.com doesn't resolve for you. But, you know, if the problem is happening at around 10pm Pacific time it's almost certainly server maintenance.
posted by carsonb at 5:12 AM on April 17, 2013
status.metafilter.com runs on Blogger servers (still, right?) and shows up even if the rest of the site is down. It's the first place you should look if metafilter.com doesn't resolve for you. But, you know, if the problem is happening at around 10pm Pacific time it's almost certainly server maintenance.
posted by carsonb at 5:12 AM on April 17, 2013
The MeFi RSS feed is still down.
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 6:57 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 6:57 AM on April 17, 2013
Best Of should be working again.
The MeFi RSS feed is here. We haven't used the feed URL you're pointing to for a while. If you update you should have the version we're supporting.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:08 AM on April 17, 2013
The MeFi RSS feed is here. We haven't used the feed URL you're pointing to for a while. If you update you should have the version we're supporting.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:08 AM on April 17, 2013
That's the last time we let pb change the desktop image!
posted by cjorgensen at 7:10 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by cjorgensen at 7:10 AM on April 17, 2013
We haven't used the feed URL you're pointing to for a while.
It was up and running until about 12:30 ET this morning.
I've just discovered that my RSS reader deletes the entire feed history if you change the feed's URL.
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 7:16 AM on April 17, 2013
It was up and running until about 12:30 ET this morning.
I've just discovered that my RSS reader deletes the entire feed history if you change the feed's URL.
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 7:16 AM on April 17, 2013
It was up and running until about 12:30 ET this morning.
Yeah, it's one of those legacy things. We'd like it to work, but it's not on the list of things to fix when wires get crossed. So if you update to the feedburner link you'll have a more reliable feed URL.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:19 AM on April 17, 2013
Yeah, it's one of those legacy things. We'd like it to work, but it's not on the list of things to fix when wires get crossed. So if you update to the feedburner link you'll have a more reliable feed URL.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:19 AM on April 17, 2013
Just logged in and I got an invalid cetrificate warning. The login page was serving the chat.metafilter.com certificate.
I've never used chat on this machine.
posted by Mitheral at 7:26 AM on April 17, 2013
I've never used chat on this machine.
posted by Mitheral at 7:26 AM on April 17, 2013
Thanks Mitheral, we'll get that fixed up later today.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:29 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 7:29 AM on April 17, 2013
SORRY EVERYBODY, I ACCIDENTALLY GOT SCOTCH ON THE SERVER
ALSO ON MY CAPS LOCK KEY
BUT THANKS FOR TRYING TO COVER FOR ME TEAM
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:05 AM on April 17, 2013 [5 favorites]
ALSO ON MY CAPS LOCK KEY
BUT THANKS FOR TRYING TO COVER FOR ME TEAM
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:05 AM on April 17, 2013 [5 favorites]
Go home cortex.... you're ... oh wait you are home.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:07 AM on April 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:07 AM on April 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
Wow, a complaint at 2 in the morning (my time), and within 8 minutes, FOUR mods respond?! Where else do you get that level of service?
It's like you're all right there in my bedroom with me. I assume cortex would have been there too but his mouth was too full of giant donuts to chime in (I don't need powdered sugar all over my sheets anyway, thank you very much).
Also, I feel like pb is running on coffee, Red Bull or maybe even Adderall by now. Hope you eventually get some sleep, pb!
posted by misha at 9:27 AM on April 17, 2013
It's like you're all right there in my bedroom with me. I assume cortex would have been there too but his mouth was too full of giant donuts to chime in (I don't need powdered sugar all over my sheets anyway, thank you very much).
Also, I feel like pb is running on coffee, Red Bull or maybe even Adderall by now. Hope you eventually get some sleep, pb!
posted by misha at 9:27 AM on April 17, 2013
Cortex and Jessamyn: We have, like, 19 mods now. It's finally safe to sleep without one eye open.
Sorry, PB. No sleep for you. Ever.
posted by double block and bleed at 11:46 AM on April 17, 2013
Sorry, PB. No sleep for you. Ever.
posted by double block and bleed at 11:46 AM on April 17, 2013
The Feedburner feed started returning invalid XML at some point after 8:26 pm ET on April 22, and is still doing so.
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 12:37 AM on April 23, 2013
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 12:37 AM on April 23, 2013
Thanks for letting us know. It's validating now so it should be set.
posted by pb (staff) at 5:09 AM on April 23, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 5:09 AM on April 23, 2013
Yep, looks good on this end too.
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 6:04 AM on April 23, 2013
posted by one more dead town's last parade at 6:04 AM on April 23, 2013
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