Site Outage 7/15/15

Post by **trilobyte** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:33 pm

Sorry about that, folks - it wasn't you, it was us! ePlaya suffered a brief outage this afternoon, due to an issue with our load balancer. Everything has been resolved and we should be back to whatever passes for normal around here.

mgb327 · Post by **mgb327** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:41 pm

Trilo, nothing on here is ever normal.

Ratty · Post by **Ratty** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:42 pm

It had been taking a very long time to load a picture.

digital · Post by **digital** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:47 pm

Did you forget to feed the server gremlins again? You should know by now how moody they get this time of year.

TT120 · Post by **TT120** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:00 pm

Man....I almost died.....Couldn't log on for at least 10 minutes.....I almost had to do work at work......

Melonblue · Post by **Melonblue** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:12 pm

TT120 wrote:Man....I almost died.....Couldn't log on for at least 10 minutes.....I almost had to do work at work......

Holy shit, this!

Man with so few days to go, this is like my lifeline (sad, sorry) to maintaining my excitement/fear etc.

if they ever took my phone away at work.... o_o

Post by **Savannah** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:16 pm

TT120 wrote:Man....I almost died.....Couldn't log on for at least 10 minutes.....I almost had to do work at work......

Me TOO.

It was CLOSE.

Melonblue wrote:Holy shit, this!

Man with so few days to go, this is like my lifeline (sad, sorry) to maintaining my excitement/fear etc.

if they ever took my phone away at work.... o_o

Hide the precioussssssssssss.

caffeineslinger · Post by **caffeineslinger** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:58 pm

Ahh... I ain't even mad.

Post by **mdmf007** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:01 pm

What Trilo is not telling you is our internal snark filter needed to be rinsed out in soapy hot water and reinstalled. We were out of snark soap and tried Dr. Boners, but it did not work as well. I ran to the store for beer and cigarettes while they tried whatever that powder stuff is we keep under the sink. Turns out a run through the dishwasher with one of them little squishy tide packets and some patchouli oil worked out good and we are now back up.

Game on.

Post by **trilobyte** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:19 pm

More like Dr. Bonkers soap

What I'm really glad for is it isn't like things used to be, when the board would go down or turn to molasses all the time. Ticket info going out, ticket sales, theme camp placement announcements, and then just the constant build-up on tickets... It used to take forever to load pages or post to threads sometimes. MANY MANY thanks to the tech team, we're on better hardware now and have fancy tech like the load balancer (that only exploded a little bit today), which helps us automatically scale things up under heavy usage. We're busier now than we ever have been in July, and today's hiccup notwithstanding things are running pretty smoothly.

That said, I am going to schedule some down-time tonight. Do a little under-the-hood checking around as well as re-index the board.

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:49 pm

Trilo, I am not receiving e-mail notifications of new posts on topics I am subscribed to. This has been going on for a couple days. Hopefully that will get sorted while you are at it. Thanks for all you do for us!

FIGJAM · Post by **FIGJAM** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:07 pm

Replies are taking about 30 second after hitting "submit".

It's not usually that slow.

Post by **trilobyte** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:35 pm

That wouldn't be related, Elliot, but I'll check into it.

It's been sporadic for me, Figjam, tonight's maintenance should hopefully clear that up.

digital · Post by **digital** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:44 pm

May the blessings of St.GNU carry you thru this server snafu, Dear Admin.

Onward!

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:44 pm

I'm not receiving notifications of PMs either.

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