7/26 UPDATE: we’ve added more RAM to the slave database and are adding 4GB more RAM to the master database on Monday. Are people feeling things are zippier?
UPDATE: sites are back up—and things are better than before. This is game of inches on the performance front but I think we gained about 2 inches with the last buffer move. Okay, back to goaling!
UPDATE: we’re taking the sites down for 5 minutes to increase some mysql buffers—that’s a fancy way of saying hold on for just a sec and things should get much better.
Are you getting a lot of Oops pages in the last few days? You are not alone. I could make up an elaborate explanation, or simply say: we’re working on it. More specifically, we should have two new boxes (aka webservers) up by the end of the week. That may help things hum along. In addition we’re looking into other database efficiencies to deliver us from Oopsland to the promise land.
In other news I was lucky enough to make it this weekend to the Bay Area 43T Meetup in San Francisco and met some great folks. It was rewarding as a user of 43T to meet up with a bunch of smart, insightful 43T’ers. I highly recommend attending and/or organizing a 43T meetup of your own. If you do, let us know how it goes.
P.S. If you’d like to lodge your frustration about Oops-ness, feel free to do so here in the comments. You’ll feel better if you get it off your chest.
July 17, 2007 at 11:54 am
No worries
I still love you guys at 43T regardless!
July 17, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I love the way you’ve linked to 43things in a post about why the sites are down.
Yes yes, I know, it’ll be back up soon and then the links will work, etc. etc.
July 17, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Seriously guys, take your time, work the bugs out. The minor bugs I’ve found on the site are more than made up for how amazing of a site it is including the community and people on it. One day I’d love to meet you guys and shake your hand, because without this site, I don’t know how much more difficult getting my life in order would have been. This tool has been beyond important in my life. Thank you.
July 17, 2007 at 4:32 pm
YOU are kool!
July 17, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Yeah, can you tell that we’re all getting errors trying to post comments, too?
July 17, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Thank you!! You guys ROCK!!!
PS
I guess a Seattle 43T meetup should be in order now
July 19, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Thanks party people. I think we’ve gained another 2 inches in the last day. We’ll keep plugging away.
July 31, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Daniel! Thanks for posting the kind words-it was awesome meeting you, too
Seattle meet up!? I’m soooo down for that one!
September 3, 2007 at 2:32 am
Please let me now when you are coming to NY ( I use to leave in san Francisco and I wish I never left!. ( that is another thing i have to do - stop saying I wish I did if only etc)