brief unexpected downtime

[mark]

Hi, sorry for the downtime. The main incoming server that everybody connects to before getting farmed off to one of the other servers crashed, according to Slicehost. As expected, the backup server took over and the site was back up a few minutes later.

The followup problem (seeing the Apache default page) happened when the primary server came back up and it "took over" the site again. But of course, it took over and wasn't quite ready to give everybody the right stuff and threw some errors.

It should be all good now. If I hear anything else from Slicehost I'll let you know. Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope we didn't eat many posts. :(

Comments

[wildmachinery]

is there a reason i can't see usernames or community names for individual entries on my reading page? i did the thing where i went through the code for my personal layout and replaced "friends" with whatever dw said to replace it with (totally blanking out, sorry), and it worked for a while, but now it's back to just not showing the names again. apologies if this has already been explained elsewhere, but i can't seem to find anything.

[afuna]

Hmm, we didn't touch anything in that area. Could you double-check that your layout says "read" instead of "friends" in the various $p.view == "friends" bits?

[meallanmouse]

I was wondering about that too! Thank you for the fix! =)

[meallanmouse]

Additionally: $.view == "friends" also needs to become $.view == "read" as a side-note. I had to get two of those in my particular style layer in addition to the $p.view == "friends" ones. :)

[ovelia]

Wow, I didn't even notice the site was down. :)

[althea_valara]

1) You have an awesome Squall icon.
2) Your name is larxene.

This means you = awesome. :D

[ovelia]

Aww, thank you! ^_^

[magycmyste]

For that matter, so do you. Could I possibly have permission to use it?

(I'm a little Squall-obsessive, and that's such pretty linework!)

[althea_valara]

Squall is my very favorite character EVER. <3

And yup, you can use the icon. :) Credit goes to atelierjoh on LiveJournal.

[magycmyste]

Thank you!

just my reply to a previous maintenance post

[babysprite]

No need to apologize. We're in beta and things are going to happen. In fact, this is THE TIME for things to happen and opportunities to improve on the code and the system(s) hosting Dw.

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Music: Bruce Springsteen - The River

[hederahelix]

You know what makes me happy about Dreamwidth? That you guys posted that quickly to explain what happened. Thanks for letting us know what was going on.

[magycmyste]

I second this comment.

Thanks for letting us know what happened, Mark!

[featherswift]

Third'd.

[sami]

DEAR SERVERS

POSTS ARE NOT FOR NOMS

YOU CAN'T HAS POSTS FOR EATS

DUN DO THAT KPLX :( :( :( :( :(

[amadi]

I mentioned on my public Twitter my hopes to get this resolved with Slicehost quickly, but privately I said what I'll reiterate here: the transparency is greatly appreciated. Knowing what the problems actually are and what's being done to address and resolve them, and to know so quickly, is refreshing and reassuring. Thank you!

[gryphonwing]

...there was downtime?

I've been posting, crossposting, and editing pretty steadily for ages. Maybe it all happened while I was in the restroom...

Kinda cool to see an apology for something you didn't notice happening.

[xdawnfirex_fic]

See what you get for going to the restroom?

[jackandahat]

Echoing what they said - thank you for keeping us in the loop.

*Is definitely getting a paid account ASAP*

[willow]

Somebody's host is being unrealistic about some stuff, maybe? And as someone else has said - Beta's the time to be discovering that.

[aroihkin]

It's pretty funny that we're all so shell-shocked from that other site that we're like "OMG YAY UPDATES THANK YOU OMG ...wait, it was down?".

Funny, but kinda nice!

shell-shocked

[babysprite]

That is SO THE TRUTH. :-0 (sorry for yelling) I'm a little blown away, myself; by the transparency of DW.

O.M.G., they're actually telling us what's going on! (LOL) :0D

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Music: Joan Jett - Me and the Boys

[lichking]

It is nice you gave an explanation as so few do that. It is nice to see the Lich King's.... I mean your domain growing bigger every day.

[baggyeyes]

Man, I didn't even notice. BUt then, I have not been uber-active as of late. :-/