I have been trying to get into the forum for about the last 2.5 hours and only now have gotten in (through the Universe Today link). Even now it is v_e_r_y s_l_o_w. Anyone know what's up?
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I have been trying to get into the forum for about the last 2.5 hours and only now have gotten in (through the Universe Today link). Even now it is v_e_r_y s_l_o_w. Anyone know what's up?
Order of Kilopi
I noticed that too. I'm having trouble getting a connection.
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Same here, been getting a 503 error.
Ah, looks like we've been Slashdotted.
(Slashdot page)
Order of Kilopi
Same here.
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same here...
Order of Kilopi
Hm. Well now we know that the BA's main site is on the same server as BAUT. I like trivia like that...
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Yep. Those people over at slashdot are ruthless.Originally Posted by Captain Kidd
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Bad Astronomy is hosted on the same server as BAUT. Phil's latest post on the Big Bang has generated a massive amount of publicity across all the big news sites. He got dugg, slashdotted, farked, and then some. So, the server's just been punished in the last couple of days. We're figuring some short and long term solutions to reduce the impact of this on the server.
Order of Kilopi
So, was the site simply overloaded or was it a denial of service attack?
Never mind. Fraser posted while I was typing.
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Just overloaded. Any one of those sites will bring a webserver to its knees. All three... forget about it.
Order of Kilopi
It seems to be handling it pretty well, considering.
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Phil stripped out all the functionality of his publishing system. So it just posts the HTML page, and that's it. He had to turn commenting off, etc.
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Wow
I just read the blog. (Somehow I missed this story till now.)
Phil is righteously angry.
The BA Rox!
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I would have missed the blog in question if I hadn't seen this thread, and then I wouldn't be so angry I can hardly see straight. I hope this story absolutely saturates the web. Righteous anger suits the BA very well.
Order of Kilopi
How many new BAUT members will we be getting, over the next few days, do you think?
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You mean there is an upside to this?
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I can not get the Search to work.
I just get an error 500
Order of Kilopi
Seems to be working fine at the moment.
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I somehow lost the subscription to a thread in Questions and Answers called Could a toroidal planet be stable, which I started myself.
A year passed without new posts being added. When finally new posts were added, I did not notice this because the thread didn't show up in User CP. I noticed it a week later by coincidence (a new post had just been added when I checked New Posts), but now I wonder what else I am missing.
Vulcan Administrator
Were subscriptions carried over from the old forum? It's been less than a year.
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
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Until now (11:04 EST) I have been unable to get on BAUT since about 17:00 yesterday. I tried both at work and on my ISP at home.
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Not only BAUT, also badastronomy.com: both are only just online again.
Order of Kilopi
Yeah, I was also unable to open it until a couple of minutes ago.
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I see that ToSeek has wasted no time getting back into the "swing" of things. (numerous posts)
Order of Kilopi
Yay! We're back! (*withdrawl symptoms subsiding*)
Vulcan Administrator
Fraser emailed me this morning saying he didn't know yet what had happened because he couldn't access the server, either.
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
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A good chunk of the service provider was down all yesterday, so I'm still working with them to figure out what happened. The ISP's own website was offline for most of the day. Computers... arghhh!
Bad Post-Doc
I actually e-mailed To Seek at about 11:30 last night because it'd been twelve hours, which meant it probably wasn't just me, and could he tell me what was going on, please? Of course, he was asleep (just look at the time zones!), and while he very nicely replied this morning, the board was back.
Today, the board; tomorrow, my boyfriend; Thursday, my best friend. It almost makes me wonder what's going to get back Friday.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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And boy was I getting the shakes real bad.
"Snakes"
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