Category Archives: Site Status

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.

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.

Thanks for all the email reports regarding performance issues with Lists of Bests in the last couple days. We’re making some tweaks now that should stabilize performance—and we’ll continue to work on getting the site healthy again.

Sorry for the hassle but thanks for your detailed feedback. It’s helpful to us.

We’re working on 43 People, All Consuming & Lists of Bests right now—they may be down for a few minutes to an hour as we work on some database issues. Hope to have things up before lunch!

The sites may be down periodically on Sunday April 15th from 12am – 1am-ish (Central time). Here’s the official word from our hosting company, Rackspace:

The window for this maintenance will be from 12:01 AM to 1:00 AM Central time on Sunday morning, April 15, 2007.

Rackspace will be performing upgrades and routine maintenance in the data center networking infrastructure. Due to this maintenance, there may be several brief interruptions of service while traffic fails over from one device to another. No maintenance will be performed on your specific devices but applications utilizing persistent TCP connections like SSH and RDP may lose connectivity to the internet during the traffic migration.

Hopefully it’ll go without many hiccups. Thanks for your patience.

The last few days email was backed up (notifications, account verification, etc.). Apparently some spammer(s) had a few bogus email addresses that clogged up the pipes. The pipes are now clear and email is catching up. I think we’ll be back on track by the end of the day.

In other news, it’s a magical day at the Co-op. We installed a printer today! After 2+ years of no printer or fax machine we now have more than that: a printer/scanner/fax/copier. We don’t have a phone so faxing is still a thing of the future. If you’re curious, we’re using an HP Photosmart 3180. Things are looking up!

update: Josh has informed me that it’s actually not a fax machine. It’s simply a scanner/copier/printer. Faxing remains as elusive as ever.

We’re tweaking the database and the site has to be down for a few minutes. We’re hoping we’ll be up shortly. Thanks for your patience!

UPDATE: we’re back at 11:10 PST! Down about 10-15 minutes. Thanks folks.