Site Down Again?
Nov 16, 2005 | 11:42 am
#16
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Originally Posted by FlyingToFly
I'm running into this message a lot:
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
This is for both www and web2.
John at Webflyer, what is causing all these problems? Are the servers just overloaded, or are there coding issues that are being resolved?
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
This is for both www and web2.
John at Webflyer, what is causing all these problems? Are the servers just overloaded, or are there coding issues that are being resolved?
We're also rebuilding the webserver software on one of the machines (web1) looking to improve performance there.
Nov 16, 2005 | 12:41 pm
#18
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Originally Posted by John at Webflyer
It's database issues with the web servers. Strangely nothing happened when we first added the servers into the mix last night but are cropping up this am. Easy to address so thanks for the feedback.
We're also rebuilding the webserver software on one of the machines (web1) looking to improve performance there.
We're also rebuilding the webserver software on one of the machines (web1) looking to improve performance there.
Would it be possible (it would sure seem desireable, imo) to have a link to a "network status" page that you could update with a sentence or two as problems occur?
Nov 16, 2005 | 1:01 pm
#19
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
Thanks for the update.
Would it be possible (it would sure seem desireable, imo) to have a link to a "network status" page that you could update with a sentence or two as problems occur?
Would it be possible (it would sure seem desireable, imo) to have a link to a "network status" page that you could update with a sentence or two as problems occur?
It'd be very helpful if we could check some sort of "network status" page when FT is down, so we know what the problem is and how long the estimated time is until FT will be back up.
Here's a good example of a network status blog:
http://admin.fastem.com/cgi-bin/fm-admin.pl
http://status.fastmail.fm/
Nov 16, 2005 | 1:46 pm
#20
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
Thanks for the update.
Would it be possible (it would sure seem desireable, imo) to have a link to a "network status" page that you could update with a sentence or two as problems occur?
Would it be possible (it would sure seem desireable, imo) to have a link to a "network status" page that you could update with a sentence or two as problems occur?
Nov 16, 2005 | 5:08 pm
#24
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Still intermittent dropping out/cannot access. Even when on it is slow.
No matter which address is used.
This reply took a minute to come up and then another two minutes to post.
EDIT: But editing this note was lightning quick.
Last edited by cblaisd; Nov 16, 2005 at 5:15 pm
Nov 16, 2005 | 8:17 pm
#26
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Pinging flyertalk.com is dead
Pinging web1.flyertalk.com and web2.flyertalk.com works.
But this (posted from web2) is still very, very slow in opening a thread and posting a reply.
EDIT: It took over three minutes for this to post.
Pinging web1.flyertalk.com and web2.flyertalk.com works.
But this (posted from web2) is still very, very slow in opening a thread and posting a reply.
EDIT: It took over three minutes for this to post.
Last edited by cblaisd; Nov 16, 2005 at 8:22 pm
Nov 17, 2005 | 12:12 am
#27
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For the past several days the site has been very slow. For several hours at least it was not responding at all.
Thanks for the tip about web2. I am using it now while www.flyertalk.com is being absolutely unresponsive.
Thanks for the tip about web2. I am using it now while www.flyertalk.com is being absolutely unresponsive.
Nov 17, 2005 | 12:55 am
#28
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Flyertalk.com remains unreachable. web1 and web2 are intermittently reachable and exasperatingly slow.
http://64.78.185.92 is currently the fastest (but that's not saying alot) although it's not downloading all the graphics.
I hope the tech folks can give us a thorough update. Thanks.
http://64.78.185.92 is currently the fastest (but that's not saying alot) although it's not downloading all the graphics.
I hope the tech folks can give us a thorough update. Thanks.
Nov 17, 2005 | 7:37 am
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This morning it wasn't loading at all for me and then in the last 5 mins web2 seems to be back intermittently.
I wonder if it's possible for the tech guys to post to some free web service or something about what is going on. I don't mean like 5 minute updates, but maybe if the database is down and it's going to take awhile, there can be a yahoo flytertalk page or something for network status. Just a thought.
I wonder if it's possible for the tech guys to post to some free web service or something about what is going on. I don't mean like 5 minute updates, but maybe if the database is down and it's going to take awhile, there can be a yahoo flytertalk page or something for network status. Just a thought.
Nov 17, 2005 | 7:44 am
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It's been awful for us over here in Europe today - even knowing some of the alternate addresses hasn't helped and I've been getting error messages more than i've managed to get access today 