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== Page load issues ==
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This might be just me, but has anyone else been experiencing trouble loading pages lately? I'd ignore it completely as the price of having an old laptop, but I have this problem here more frequently than any other site. Is anyone else having such a problem? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 17:42, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
:Bookworm allegedly "moved us to a new server" on March 18m knocking the site offline for several hours and apparently fucking with the site's DNS entries.  (Why you'd need to fuck with the TFwiki DNS entries to swap servers in-house...?)
#They are lying.  We're still on the same server.  All the BLC sites still go down at the same time.
#We have no idea what they actually ''did'' when they claimed to be "switching TFWiki to another server."
#That server has been having epileptic fits ever since ''whatever'' they did with [http://deriksmith.livejournal.com/38572.html brownouts, blackouts, timeouts and lockouts] occurring off-and-on at ''all hours'' of the day.  This doesn't affect just us; it also affect all the webcomic guys hosted on our server-- thus [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20090327.html the punchline of the latest Shortpacked!]
#The site is still going completely offline for a half-hour every night for the "backup" which apparently doesn't work.
#David's being either preoccupied or secretive (or possibly just sullen given the strip) which leaves me in the dark on whether anything new has happened with Bookworm the last 5 days-- but I suspect the answer is "no."
#A new home for the site is being discussed.  The current (very tentative) plan-under-consideration involves a "Safeguard" two-server setup where one server hosts the wiki and a second ''synced'' server acts as backup, with server-bogging tasks like weekly database backups and downloads handled on the second server so that the "live" wiki never skips a beat.  '''Note:''' ''It's not my plan, I know ''nothing'' of the technical issues involved, don't ask me questions about it, and nothing has been <u>decided</u> yet, it's just what people-who-are-not-me are looking at.''
#Scout just fixed some post-caching processing code the wiki's been running since we moved in (a early hack we never got around to setting right) that should ''slightly'' improve TFWiki's responsiveness.  But this isn't related to the downtime.  That's on the ''Houston'' end of the problem.

So yes- you're not imagining it.  The site's experiencing intermittent downtime.  It seems ot be getting worse, we don't know what's causing it, and Bookworm has been about as helpful, useful and informative as the jawbone of an ass.  That's right-- ''biblically'' useless.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:59, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
{{note|Yes, Derik is '''aware''' that the jawbone which everyone thought was useless was eventually given a purpose by Sampson.  Shut up Walky, allow Derik his bombastitude.}}