MediaWiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving2

Man, we all had so much hope for New Caprica.

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? -- 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...?)

1. They are lying. We're still on the same server. All the BLC sites still go down at the same time.
2. We have no idea what they actually did when they claimed to be "switching TFWiki to another server."
3. That server has been having epileptic fits ever since whatever they did with 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 the punchline of the latest Shortpacked!
4. The site is still going completely offline for a half-hour every night for the "backup" which apparently doesn't work.
5. 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."
6. 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 decided yet, it's just what people-who-are-not-me are looking at.
7. 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. -Derik 18:59, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

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.

Derik, I just want to thank you for sharing all of that. As I said over on that Allspark thread, the view from the trenches can be exceedingly foggy. I'm sure that's in part due to you and Walky and Suki not actually knowing what's going on EITHER, or being too swamped to communicate when you DO... but still, it's really good to get updates whenever possible. I suggested maybe a setting up a Twitter feed or something. Anything, really, so that the rank-and-file can get a better understanding of how the wiki is actually being run. - Jackpot 19:11, 27 March 2009 (EDT)