Whats with all the downtime? Just seams that there has been alot lately.

Paul

Flexbeta got slashdot.org'ed... damn MySQL

haven't happened in a while, but still, very annoying

I NEED MY FLEXBETA FIX

Yesterday, /. linked to our NeroLinux/k3b review. Today, a database error. Not sure if the two are related.

i was lonely and cried

guys the downtime was a result of the us being slashdot'd ...i dunno if the db couldnt take it or what the specifics are...we've been slashdot'd before and never knocked us down but im sure the admins can explain exactly what happened.

Yup slashdotted.

Slashdotted again last nite and today because of a Google X image

We got /.ed twice yesterday. The first time caused some downwtime. A few hours later, we got /.ed again for the Google X image and that really brought the server to its knees.

o great!! :S hope it doesnt happen agen!!!!

MartMoz

guess we need a better server again dont we .... i thought this new one we had could take a /.

Yea, google X thats my new homepage now:) lol, i think it was down for a while also yesterday.

new server? what are you running now?

Dual 2.8 Xeons

well lets hope this doesen't happen alot or very little.

it doesnt happen alot, we can usually stand a /. load ...especially on our 2.8 Dualie ...i dunno if it could take 2 back to back ... lol hey G maybe we need to investin in Itanium 2's

This kind of stuff is to be expected... /. has lot of users and that means alot of people looking at the links.

I think we need an official Flexbeta Downtime thread lol, we everyone can post the rants and raves etc etc.

I thought Xeon were better? Anyways, I will be on the phone today with the people from the Planet to see what they would suggest. Yes, we are able to handle a /. effect, but that was a backtoback /..

You guys maintain the servers yourself or are you using some other company to do it through?

It's great to get slashdotted though.. brings more users to the site

Henry for what we're doing Xeons are fine lol only enterprises use Itaniums ... lol unless u can afford it go on ..maybe we should do Dual Xeons with HT or when the dual cored xeons come get a dual Core Dual Xeon

Oh man, Betcha that would make a difference!
I think it's outgragous How Many Hit's Slashdot can bring! Honestly, -

I think we have a company that does it for us, the planet i think. not sure. better off asking g.

Would a flood control like 1 post every X seconds by a user type setup help? Some sites I visit won't allow clickage of requests within X seconds. Dunno if that is even in the same partition, lol. I am a severe noob boob when it comes to things like /. which I just now heard of, lol.

better off going with dual opertrons 252's

the server is not the problem, its our SQL connections. If you have over 1000 folks and only 100 SQL connections allowed at 1 time, plus all the normal traffic, it will take you down!

soooo lets increase the sql connections so it dont happen again lol

Why is the number of SQL Connections set so low? Just for bandwidth purposes?

kinda like to know myself...we get thousands of hits and we have it set low?

Actually its probably not low. But look at the SQL connections like a telephone company. Everything works fine, but in an emergency like an earthquake where everyone is using the phone systems all at once, the phone system works, but it may take some time to get a dialtone or even through to the person your calling, sometimes you may not even be able to get through because of a trunk busy signal

Except in that analogy the "earthquake" was slashdot lol.

Slashdoted again today we really need to find a way to prevent that from happening other then just not posting any news

Quote from slashdot

what does it mean to be slashdotted?
when slashdot posts a link to here and all the nerds come here?


and what is google x?

egotistic bastards...sorry we cant "Afford" a uber server to withstand such an flood of hits. Now if they WANT to buy us a totally kick a$$ server then tell them they can but id like to see it reversed on them for once and see how they like it.

bmx...being slashdotted means this:
theres a site thats significantly bigger than all the beta communities...thats slashdot.org ...all it is is a news feed yanking news from other sites. When we post an article , and it gets put on slashdot we get /.ed ...means we get a TON of hits and visitors but its usually too much for our poor server to manage.

and what is google x anyone?

This was Google X >> http://www.theplaceforitall.com/googlex/

and now /. is down

Still up I think for me at least

hmm, well it's back up now. must've just been down for a few minutes when I checked