If anyone has problems with the site today please let me know

[Sean]

Hi All,

I have re-tweaked an application we use to block certain bots, spammers, etc from the server. If anyone has problems today it would be helpful to know. That's all, Thanks! Sean

 

[pentaxuser]

Site has been very slow since your message about maintenance tonight. I've had page cannot be displayed once and a frozen screen a couple of times. May just be coincidence or is it connected. I note the thread on APUG's success with membership but is the price of increased members, an overloaded server?

I know we always look back with rose coloured spectacles to the good old days but when I first joined I am sure I was not experiencing these problems.

Pentaxuser

 

[Sean]

update*

Still working on the server, things are looking better -currently-

 

[terri]

The site wouldn't open for me all morning here - the usual "server not found" error message. Seems fine now.

 

[winger]

I've been trying since about 9:45am US East coast time and this is the first I've gotten through. It has been slow lately, but I never know if that's the site or our system here at work. It's usually faster from home.

 

[benjiboy]

I been trying for most of the day , I did get on early this morning, but this is the first time I have been able to get on since, all I could get was server not found.

 

[vet173]

Just came on at 10:00 AM west coast time. Seems ok here.

 

[Dave Miller]

Much better, thanks.

 

[blansky]

I've been trying for hours. Finally said fuck it and went back to bed.

Michael

 

[medform-norm]

19:00 hours CET and back on after a down period during the afternoon.
But no bad words from me - I've got plenty of others ways to while away my time

 

[Dave Parker]

Have not been able to get on all morning, just came back online about 30 minutes ago, just the server not found error is what I was getting.

But all is good, back on now.

Dave

 

[RGyori]

Somebody wake up Blansky.

 

[medform-norm]

Somebody wake up Blansky.

LOL - his phone number is on his website -

 

[Sean]

Sorry guys... We had a bit of downtime yesterday due to the cpu loading too much and work done to fix it. We then ran into the -oh so typical- technical issues of fixing one thing and then that breaks another. All seems good now.

Sean

 

[jp80874]

Sean,

At least a dozen times today I could not connect to APUG, no problem anywhere else.

John Powers

 

[BarryWilkinson]

All seems ok here at present Sean

Barry

 

[sajianphotos]

Whew...I'll be okay now! Life will go on...it's workin' sweet.

 

[Sanjay Sen]

I couldn't access the site during the morning (US Eastern time) but it came back after 2-3 hours, during the afternoon IIRC. It seems to be fine now.

Sean, thank you for the efforts that you put in towards all this. It is much appreciated.

 

[rduraoc]

I still can't acess apug from my home computer (for 3 or 4 days now). Using firefox 1.5 behind a bitdefender firewall and a wireless router, I haven't changed any settings and firefox tells me there's an error with redirecting the adress, maybe cookies or firewall related. I don't get it, I'm allowing cookies and my firewall hasn't changed. Help?

 

[Sean]

I still can't acess apug from my home computer (for 3 or 4 days now). Using firefox 1.5 behind a bitdefender firewall and a wireless router, I haven't changed any settings and firefox tells me there's an error with redirecting the adress, maybe cookies or firewall related. I don't get it, I'm allowing cookies and my firewall hasn't changed. Help?

are you running the 'fasterfox' plugin? sometimes that is tagged by our security system as a malicious page stripper and your ip can get bocked. Can you please go here and PM me your ip address: Dead Link Removed

Thanks, Sean

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Had some timeouts this morning.

 

[Sean]

Not sure what it might have been. I have a monitoring service that monitors the site 24x7 it does a check from over 10 global locations every 5 minutes and pages me if any of the locations fail the check. Might have been a local thing in your area.

 

[Sean]

fyi- I had to restart the database engine, brief outage sorry

 

[Sean]

ok few moments of downtime today due to a strange issue with my database backups. Every few days I take an offsite backup of just the forum database which results in a 140+meg zip file (unzipped it's over 500meg). I have never had trouble doing this but tonight for some reason while the backup is downloading the site becomes non-responsive, backup completes and the site responds again. I'm asking some guys at the vbulletin site if they've ever seen this.

 

[rduraoc]

are you running the 'fasterfox' plugin? sometimes that is tagged by our security system as a malicious page stripper and your ip can get bocked. Can you please go here and PM me your ip address: Dead Link Removed

Thanks, Sean

Indeed, I´m running fasterfox plugin. But today I reset my router and was able to get in (finally!). But now I don't know if it was from the reset or if you unblocked my IP adress (btw, my IP adress isn't fixed, it's atributted by my ISP each time I logon. How would this work?).