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It’s almost 43 days after New Year’s, and we hope you’ve got your New Year’s Resolutions squared away. We just took the Resolutions feature off the home page, but you can always access your 2010 Resolutions with the tab on your profile page:
Or you can go directly to your 2010 Resolutions if you know your username, e.g. http://www.43things.com/people/resolutions/joe
From that page, you can copy individual Resolutions over to your Life List with the click of a button!
While we were at it, we did an update to the homepage, which should make it easier to add new goals and create a new account. New users can play around with the site, adopting goals which are temporarily saved until they create a 43 Things account. We also cleaned up the log in and sign up pages.
Check it out: http://www.43things.com
As always, please let us know if you see bugs, slownesses, or any other ghosts in the machine.
Thanks, from the Robots
Categories: Announcements · Site Status
January 21, 2010 · 1 Comment
How’s your 2010 going so far? We hope you’re sticking to your New Years Resolutions!
Sunday morning starting at 2:00am Pacific time, we’re bringing all the sites down for database maintenance. The outage may last up to 4 hours, but probably won’t take that long. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and we hope we picked a time that will impact as few people as possible.
update: maintenance completed without any problems. The sites were down for about 2.5 hours. Thanks for your patience (especially those further East from us who had to go without 43 Things in the middle of their days!)
[Photo by andrewscott]
Categories: Announcements · Site Status
We’ve made some recent hardware changes in our ongoing efforts to speed up the sites and keep things more stable. We just finished commissioning 7 new boxes in our fleet, 
with a net increase of 2 servers.
We are now running on a total of 9 web servers with of 16GB of RAM per box.
New hardware is not all it takes to keep 43things.com running fast and stable, but it is part of the solution, and some of the hardware we replaced was 4 years old. We’ll update you on some of the network and software changes we are also making to deal with the increased usage of the site. Thanks for putting up with some of the site’s setbacks. We feel lucky to have a problem like too much content and too many heavy users – that is the sort of problem we never want to get rid of.
Categories: Announcements · Site Status
Today (August 25, 2008) we’ll be bringing the site down around midnight PST (aka Seattle time). Todd will add columns to one of our database tables, and the sites have to come down for this to occur. This change to the database will enable some new features on 43 Things. Those features won’t roll out just yet, but we’re making the change now so we can begin to push the features and test them before they go live.
The outage should last about 60 minutes … but leave us some wiggle room. Good luck and godspeed, Todd
UPDATE: Switched off the sites and initiated the database update around 12:05 AM PST. Now we just have to wait while MySQL chews through millions of rows to add the new columns. This should complete within the hour.
12:40: First half of the update just completed, so it may be bit later than 1:00 by the time we’re back online. If the second half runs at the same speed, we should be back up and running by 1:30 PST.
1:20: Okay, database is upgraded and the websites are back up. G’night, folks!
Categories: Site Status
We’re having some server issues at the moment which we hope to have solved soon. We’ll keep you posted on progress …
update: sites are back up. We’re tweaking boxes today but we should be able to keep the sites live while we do so. I’ll let you know if things go wonky, but I think we should be alright.
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If you’re still seeing the “Scheduled Maintenance” page, try refreshing your browser a couple times. Thanks for your patience.
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Ivan is tuning the database to improve performance. We should be back up in less than an hour.
update: began maintenance at 10:10am PST (expect to be back up at 11:10am PST)
latest update: sites are coming back up now — it’s 11:15am PST (65 minutes total)
If you’re still seeing the “Scheduled Maintenance” page, try refreshing your browser a couple times. That’ll normally do the trick.
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We’re transferring the DNS settings for All Consuming this morning and that means it’ll be down for a little bit. The back story on this one is that allconsuming.net was registered by Buster long before the Robot Co-op was around. He and I spent many hours over the last 3 years trying to transfer the domain from Gandi to Joker (where we have 43T, 43P, 43Peeps, LOB, etc. registered). This was not easy. In fact, it was a total pain in the ass (damn you Gandi!).
But the good news is the transfer has occurred and we’re yanking the band-aid off the DNS settings today. Soon (hopefully later today) All Consuming will be humming again.
UPDATE (Aug 8): All Consuming is back up as of a couple days ago.
Categories: Site Status
You may have noticed two missing sites the last few days:
- robotcoop.com was down as we swapped the blog over to WordPress — it should be a stable experience now. No more multiple posts and comments or application errors. Phew.
- All Consuming was down for about 16 hours — this stemmed from trying to renew the domain and incorrectly having the credit card denied. The credit card has now been accepted and we’re back in business!
Hope you enjoy the new blog.
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7/26 UPDATE: we’ve added more RAM to the slave database and are adding 4GB more RAM to the master database on Monday. Are people feeling things are zippier?
UPDATE: sites are back up—and things are better than before. This is game of inches on the performance front but I think we gained about 2 inches with the last buffer move. Okay, back to goaling!
UPDATE: we’re taking the sites down for 5 minutes to increase some mysql buffers—that’s a fancy way of saying hold on for just a sec and things should get much better.
Are you getting a lot of Oops pages in the last few days? You are not alone. I could make up an elaborate explanation, or simply say: we’re working on it. More specifically, we should have two new boxes (aka webservers) up by the end of the week. That may help things hum along. In addition we’re looking into other database efficiencies to deliver us from Oopsland to the promise land.
In other news I was lucky enough to make it this weekend to the Bay Area 43T Meetup in San Francisco and met some great folks. It was rewarding as a user of 43T to meet up with a bunch of smart, insightful 43T’ers. I highly recommend attending and/or organizing a 43T meetup of your own. If you do, let us know how it goes.
P.S. If you’d like to lodge your frustration about Oops-ness, feel free to do so here in the comments. You’ll feel better if you get it off your chest.
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