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Admin 08-19-2009 01:49 AM

The message board was down for several hours. Everything should be working now.
I'm investigating the reasons.

Sorry for inconvenience.

tlrnhi 08-19-2009 01:58 AM

Several hours?
Was down from 12 til about 7:30 my time.
Was getting withdrawals! lol

Butterflyspain 08-19-2009 02:00 AM

Yes i had difficulty getting into the Board this morning from around 8.30am till 11.30. Thank goodness its okay again.

Elle

BlueChicken 08-19-2009 02:04 AM


Originally Posted by tlrnhi
Several hours?
Was down from 12 til about 7:30 my time.
Was getting withdrawals! lol

It was all day here too. I had withdrawls, cold sweats, palpatations, it was terrible.... I almost had to do some housework! LOL


tlrnhi 08-19-2009 02:05 AM

I didn't do housework....I sewed! lol

BlueChicken 08-19-2009 02:07 AM

Now why didn't I think of that! LOL

Admin 08-19-2009 02:31 AM

It looks like the server went down at 6PM eastern time last night.

By the looks of it, there was a post with two large attachments, 5MB each.
When someone on a slow connection tried to download it and then canceled in the middle of a download, the connection wasn't being released.
So eventually all available connections got consumed.

This shouldn't be happening, so I'm looking into why the connections got stuck that way.

tlrnhi 08-19-2009 02:50 AM

That puts it at 4pm my time, but it was down/unaccessable before that. I had run to town, was back around 12:30pm (2:30AM EST) and couldn't access the board.
Guess those of us that have are surrounded by the Pacific were the first ones to encounter this and then it trickled to the US? <shrug>


sewaholic 08-19-2009 02:51 AM

I was starting to panic that I had a virus or had somehow blocked the site from my computer :-( :-(

Admin 08-19-2009 03:02 AM


That puts it at 4pm my time, but it was down/unaccessable before that. I had run to town, was back around 12:30pm (2:30AM EST) and couldn't access the board.
That's strange. The flood of errors in the logs started at "Aug 18 18:01".


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