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Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour

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spot wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:21 pm The management would like to apologize for a 20 minute outage without warning over the last hour, following two heavy system resource overloads by Hong Kong and Indian web harvesters. Matters are now stabilized, but please note next week may bring further brief disruptions. There may be trouble ahead. But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance.
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Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour

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For those keeping score:

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Downtime: ten minutes.
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Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour

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The site will be back in a while - there are significant changes in the works because of Chinese web-crawlers slowing down the board - something needs to be done.
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Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour

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spot wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 1:03 pm The site will be back in a while - there are significant changes in the works because of Chinese web-crawlers slowing down the board - something needs to be done.


We are, after slightly more than a half hour, up again.

Please note any exceptions as they arise.
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Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour

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And it's half past seven, the sun's up and so is the site. So it could all be lots worse.
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Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour

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spot wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 11:32 pm And it's half past seven, the sun's up and so is the site. So it could all be lots worse.
And a much faster response time, thank you :-)
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Re: Heads up, ForumGarden is going down for a half hour, on the hour

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Bryn Mawr wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:56 am
spot wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 11:32 pm And it's half past seven, the sun's up and so is the site. So it could all be lots worse.
And a much faster response time, thank you :-)
We migrated overnight to a replacement server with more memory and 8 cores, we have also firewalled several million IP addresses in China.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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