FFF.net down for HOURS? by Agatsu

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FFF.net down for HOURS?

POSTED BY: AGATSU
UPDATED: Thursday, April 27, 2006 19:19
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:02 AM

What happened?

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://serenityjune23rd.com/

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:03 AM

SAMEERTIA

Dunno, but I almost went into withdrawals!
I actually had to go write fanfiction just to keep the shakes off!

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:04 AM

GRIZWALD

What a TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. That near to kilt me!! Haken, don't ever do that again, okay?

____________________________________________________
They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

Click on my profile for my Annoyingly Long List of Firefly Links.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:06 AM

WINDIE

I nearly took to drink.

I wonder what happened???

Why have they taken the sky from ME

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:08 AM

PENGUIN

Gosse happens!

As a person with two websites of my own, sometimes a server just has a hiccup and takes things down for a while.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:09 AM

GRIZWALD

While I'm thinking of it, I am also concerned that when I click on frakingalactica.net (to see if Haken has had time to get it back up again), I get a "domain expired" notice. I'm tempted to renew it just to keep it safe for him. But then he'll think I stole it.

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They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

Click on my profile for my Annoyingly Long List of Firefly Links.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:17 AM

WILDIGSTART

Yes, sad hours they were.

I'm glad we're back up. I've had my site go down for hours before too, sometimes you just can't help it. I'm willing to bet there was some kind of upgrade going on.

Just to make sure, I ask anyone that can afford to please donate to the site.

You see? She's not a junkie or mentally ill, she's gifted!--Momma Roxy

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:18 AM

LITTLEALBATROSS

That explains it. I just logged on for the first time in 3 days (must have been just after the site came back) to see that no one had responded to anything in the past day.

I was wondering where everyone went.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:19 AM

GRIZWALD

Quote:
Originally posted by wildigstart:
Just to make sure, I ask anyone that can afford to please donate to the site.

*tosses a measly five bucks into the kitty with shaking hands*

____________________________________________________
They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

Click on my profile for my Annoyingly Long List of Firefly Links.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:22 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

I was starting to get the shakes myself. LOL!

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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:24 AM

SAMEERTIA

It's true, though. Sometimes servers just go down for a bit. It's nice to have a little warning, but it's not like our world ended.
Well, not entirely like our world ended.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:57 AM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

I know, but this isn't the fist time this month that this has happend

I was so sad

One Day.
One Mission
One Army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, We Aim To Misbehave.
www.SerenityJune23rd.com

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:06 AM

WILDIGSTART

It's the first time this month I've noticved it down for so long. Think about the traffic to the site. I'm surprised at how well it holds up. Haken does a great job doing this on his own and out of his pocket.

This is probably one site that would hold up to the webmasters' worst fear: digg effect.

You see? She's not a junkie or mentally ill, she's gifted!--Momma Roxy

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:11 AM

MEGMAC

OMG, that was horrible lol. I was online and didn't know what else to do!

------------------------------------------------
Mal: Wheel never stops turning, Badger.
Badger: That only matters to the people on the rim.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:16 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

I was on the raggedy edge between no and where! The withdrawal was almost as bad as having the blue hand guys hit me with that brain thingy!

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave!

Nathan doesn't know it yet, but I am his one true love! Is that weird?

(he will believe, he will believe)

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:29 AM

DRPAIN

I'm thinking it was the space monkies that caused the site to go down. Yeah that's it the space monkies did it. They were messing around and playing on the server and they made it get all "bendy".

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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:32 AM

SIGMANUNKI

Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:

What happened?

Haken has this site running on a Windows box. They do go down quite often. And if someone isn't there to reboot when things get hairy, things stay that way until someone notices (possibly a very long time).

I got a site running on my box (several subdomains), and here's the numbers:

Andrew (the DMZ):
uptime 242 days, 17:20

Xander (the web server box):
uptime 241 days, 57 mins

There uptime has to do with one main factor: OpenBSD. You gotta love the stability of OpenBSD

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:29 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:

What happened?

Haken has this site running on a Windows box. They do go down quite often. And if someone isn't there to reboot when things get hairy, things stay that way until someone notices (possibly a very long time).

It's not the Windows box. And for the record, FFF.NET in the last 4+ years have only been down twice. First time was because of software upgrade. Second time was because of hardware failure.

As for yesterday, the entire building lost power because of electrical work. I should have posted a notice more in advance, but simply forgot it was yesterday.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:34 AM

SOULOFSERENITY

The Man They Call Soul...

See!! Don't blame the man who gives us this shiny playground whenever there are a few hickups.

Man, Haken, some people just aren't appreciative of all that you do!!

Just think: No Haken = No FFF.net...

______________________

Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.

Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

http://havenofsouls.livejournal.com/

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:58 AM

SAMEERTIA

Thank you, Haken!!

*hugs and kisses*

(Heh, netbsd has it's share of issues, too.)

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:00 AM

DEEPGIRL187

With no forum to post on, I actually had to do the work they paid me for today. Well, that and study for my final.

At last.
We can retire and give up
this life of crime.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:01 AM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

FIREFLYFANS IS BACK!!!!!!

*hugs board* I missed you so much! *sob*

Desktop Hippie: Addicted? Me?

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:30 AM

DAVESHAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by deepgirl187:
With no forum to post on, I actually had to do the work they paid me for today. Well, that and study for my final.

Zounds! How did you survive?

Oh and thanks to Haken for keeping the site up and running. I certainly appreciate the time and effort involved.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:35 AM

ZZETTA13

If that happens again somebodys going to "The Special Hell!!!"

Great job getting the board back Haken

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:46 AM

DAYVE

Quote:
Originally posted by SameErtia:
Dunno, but I almost went into withdrawals!

is there something like Methodone for a website?.... i was about to start looking for something...

i will be sending some cashy money in order to support my habit...addiction is a bitch

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:56 AM

DONCOAT

Heh. People keep sendin' him money after an outage, he's gonna start shuttin' it down regular-like.

Just kidding, Haken. Thanks infinitely for this site.

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:37 PM

AGATSU

All Hail the Mighty Haken!

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://serenityjune23rd.com/

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:52 PM

SIGMANUNKI

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:

It's not the Windows box. And for the record, FFF.NET in the last 4+ years have only been down twice. First time was because of software upgrade. Second time was because of hardware failure.

Sorry to contradict you, but from my perspective this just isn't true.

First off, even within the last couple months there has been several occurences of just the DNS lookup timing out straight after a successful page load and 10 mins+ later, it works.

Secondly, within the last month there has been more than just a handle full of days where I couldn't load the page; errors kept popping up.

So, when I see, deadlock error, ODBC erros, IIS errors, etc, that's the issue of M$ tech not able to withstand the load and/or failing altogether ie scalability issues.

Thus, in all seriousness, with how successful this site has become, I think its time for a OS with less overhead and/or some more powerful hardware and/or a fatter pipe.

To all those people that think that I'm pooping on Haken and this site, I'm not. I'm just pointing out the facts as I see them. Basically, I'm not going to cheerleader for something when I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that things can be improved.

Technically yours,
SigmaNunki

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:57 PM

CHINDI

pant pant pant.. whew.. that withdrawal is HARD!!!

but this might be a good time for ppl to pay a little into the paypal kitty... otherwise.. who knows...

THANKS HAKEN for taking such good care of us!!

wheew.. I thought we were eaten by reavers or some such while I was in the world...

Glad it was only the catalytic thingamajig...

whew

Chindi.. hugging the floor so glad home is still here!!

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:05 PM

PURPLEPEBBLE

WOW, that was scarier than a whole army of reavers!

thank the god's and of course haken that beloved fff.net is back!!!!!

~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~
"Why did you leave?".... "Why didn't you ask me not too?"

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:36 PM

LAUGHINGMUSE

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Thus, in all seriousness, with how successful this site has become, I think its time for a OS with less overhead and/or some more powerful hardware and/or a fatter pipe.

Any OS is only as stable as the techs maintaining it. Get a neophyte administering an OpenBSD box, and it doesn't matter how rock-solid the kernel: Things Get Ugly.

The primary problem I see with Windows is that it's marketed itself as user-friendly and "id10tproof" so very very well that some end users think that they can actually host a site off of their home PC and everything'll be shiny. They seem surprised (or subdued) when asked how they'll handle a DDOS attempt, or which ports they'll close. Too many pushbutton server admins running about...

"Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with."

Glad to see FFF.net back among the living!!

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Mankind makes tools; we use them to augment our hands, arms and legs.
The computer augments the brain and this makes it very unpopular with totalitarians. - Charles J.C. Lyall

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:56 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally posted by Grizwald:
Quote:
Originally posted by wildigstart:
Just to make sure, I ask anyone that can afford to please donate to the site.

*tosses a measly five bucks into the kitty with shaking hands*

A likely extortion attempt, like a crack dealer givin away free coke. Suckers!

Idiots. Dupes. That's what you'll all be if you trust her.
-Inara, Trash

FIREFLY SERENITY PILOT MUSIC VIDEO V2
Tangerine Dream - Thief Soundtrack: Confrontation
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/8912.php

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:11 PM

WILDIGSTART

Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
A likely extortion attempt, like a crack dealer givin away free coke. Suckers!

Idiots. Dupes. That's what you'll all be if you trust her.
-Inara, Trash

FIREFLY SERENITY PILOT MUSIC VIDEO V2
Tangerine Dream - Thief Soundtrack: Confrontation
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/8912.php

Ya know what? You use a lot of bandwidth here PN, more than most...so you can just go....

You see? She's not a junkie or mentally ill, she's gifted!--Momma Roxy

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:33 PM

AGATSU

Hey, I didn't even notice there was a link to donate via PayPal! I love PayPal! Although they added 10% for "shipping". Ah, well, maybe there'll be a singing telegram or something for that money.

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://serenityjune23rd.com/

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