Emergency Spleenville

All fall down

2010-07-23T11:48:00.003-04:00

Woah, huge server crash. I can't get to Spleenville.com, so I went and checked my hosting peoples' server monitor pages, and for a few moments there were over a hundred servers in the red, mine included. And what's annoying? Now my server doesn't show as one with a problem, but I still can't get to my site.

Server slowdowns

2010-07-19T00:08:00.002-04:00

Can't get to Spleenville.com at the moment, though a peripheral page where I keep some bookmarks loaded just fine. It was probably in the cache. Oh well, it's late, I should go to bed soon, I don't have anything I want to blog about right now anyway.

Well hell

2010-07-14T11:31:00.002-04:00

Several servers including the one Spleenville lives on are currently down. Don't worry folks, this doesn't usually last long. Yeah.

Le Site

2010-04-28T19:07:00.002-04:00

Things seem to be back to normal. Oh no now I've jinxed it I bet.

Update, June 2, 2010: this post has been attracting spam, so I'm closing the comments.

Socket Timeout

2010-04-27T19:13:00.002-04:00

...on Spleenville, 7:13 PM. This is the first time in a while I haven't been able to get to my site.

Update, 8:38 PM -- well, it's supposedly back up, but the site is still loading slowly on my end. I had better not be getting hammered by spammers.

Second update, 8:45 PM: yup, it's down again. "Service check timed out," five minute load time" -- etc.

Spleenville Server having problems

2010-02-27T09:19:00.001-05:00

...again. Five minute load, socket timeout after 10 seconds, that sort of thing.

Update, 9:44 AM: okay, everything seems to be back up.

A bit of downage for the weekend

2010-02-07T14:31:00.002-05:00

Is "downage" a word? I don't even know. Anyway, in between internet outages here at meatspace headquarters (no, Verizon, the modem "can't hear you now"), Spleenville's servers are having some troubles of their own wherever it is they reside. New Jersey, I think.

Site down again

2010-01-31T09:42:00.003-05:00

The server is having a problem again. What else is new. Actually, though, it's been pretty good the past few weeks -- until a couple of days ago and today. Oh well. It's not like I've had all that much to say lately.

Update: it's back up.

Spleenville: critical socket timeout

2010-01-29T16:09:00.003-05:00

Having a critical socket timeout on the Spleenville server. Stay tuned.

Update: everything's back up now.

Socket problems again

2010-01-07T14:50:00.001-05:00

I have no idea what a socket is in internet terms or why it having a timeout is bad for the server my website sits on but that's what is happening with Spleenville at the moment. Wait a few minutes, that will probably change.

Sloooow site

2009-12-21T14:22:00.000-05:00

Well, my site seems to be very, very slow if not completely unreachable (I haven't the patience to wait for it to load in any case) but I can't see any special problems on my server space. Some other servers are having problems, though. This would be the Spleenville server; Victory Soap is up and running.

And just before I decided to post this, Spleenville came up too. Never mind!

Slowdown of unknown origin

2009-12-14T13:51:00.002-05:00

For some reason it's not showing up on the Nagios server monitor, but the Spleenville server is experiencing slowdowns. Half the time I can't get to my site. *grrr* how annoying.

Of course, just when I wanted to post something

2009-12-09T13:45:00.003-05:00

The Spleenville server went into red alert. (The server monitor site really does use the Star Trek color alert system -- yellow to orange to red, red being the most serious. Though I can't remember now if Star Trek ever used "orange alert." Still.)

Anyway, when I get around to it, the blog post I wanted to put up is about this little number: all your economy are belong to us! Thanks, Obama voters. (Via Kathy Shaidle.)

(Also, I previously put this in the wrong Blogspot blog. I think that's my cue to turn off the computer for a while.)

Connection refused!

2009-12-07T14:23:00.001-05:00

There's a 5-minute load time and "connection refused" problem on the Spleenville server.

Update: okay, it's back up.

Systems critical

2009-12-03T14:14:00.003-05:00

Having some server problems today on Spleenville, so you may not be able to reach the site. I sure can't reach it.

Oh, and I keep forgetting to post my Monday status update. Well there went that idea.

Update: okay, everything is back to normal.

Secondary site server slow load times

2009-11-26T14:36:00.001-05:00

Victory Soap, my secondary site, is experiencing slow load times. This really doesn't matter to anyone but me, as I don't have any current "public" blogs on that site, just my archived blogs from 2007 and 2008, and some test blogs.

Update: everything is back up.

Server Status Update #2 - 2 days late

2009-11-25T13:43:00.001-05:00

Sorry folks, I've already forgotten my plan to update every Monday! Anyway, Spleenville is up, Victory Soap is down (5-minute load time). ETA 1:42 PM EST.

Updated 5:17PM - V-soap is back up, Spleenville is up.

Socket timeout

2009-11-22T13:15:00.001-05:00

Spleenville's servers are not loading: there is a "Socket timeout after 10 seconds" message. Wait a few minutes -- these things usually get resolved in fifteen minutes or less.

I'll be off to a play soon, so I won't be able to post an update for a couple of hours.

6:21pm update: okay, I'm back, the site is up. Don't know when it up, but Hosting Matters is usually on the ball and gets the servers clear in a few minutes. In any case, no one sent me any irate emails.

Spleenville Weekly Server Status No. 1

2009-11-16T18:44:00.000-05:00

This is something new. I figured I should have something up here more than cryptic, weeks-old cries of dismay about unreachable servers and so on. So every Monday (let's see if I remember) I'll post an announcement on the state of the Spleenville.com and Victorysoap.us servers. And as of this moment they are both all clear.

Server down AGAIN

2009-11-08T17:04:00.003-05:00

Why is it always when I'm trying to do something? Argh.

I forgot to add: and the server site doesn't show my server as being down -- I just can't reach my site, that's all. It's been doing that a lot lately -- I'll be unable to log in or even load my website, and I'll look at the server site and it won't say there's anything wrong for half an hour. *Inline update* -- Oh, now they have my server up as having socket timeouts and such. About time!

5:29 PM, it's finally back up.

Server down

2009-11-06T14:18:00.001-05:00

Servers are down again. (Well, they're experiencing "critical socket timeouts" and "5-minute load times" and so on. But whatever that means, I can't get to the site.)

Update: okay, it's fine now.

Weird stuff going on.

2009-10-29T13:04:00.001-04:00

Weird stuff is going on on my server. Strange folders with strange scripts appeared. I have emailed the support desk at Hostingmatters. Stay tuned!

Update: it was the Chinese. So that's the thanks I get for all the money I spent at Walmart... Anyway, to celebrate the matter being resolved, I have updated the theme for this site. Yays to the pretty!

Server problems - site down

2009-10-16T14:21:00.003-04:00

Spleenville.com is completely down. Check back later for updates.

Update: okay, it's back up!

Fail

2008-06-05T13:25:00.002-04:00

For my two or three readers -- my current main blog The Return of the Twisted Spinster is down due to some server problems. It will probably be back up shortly.

Also, in case you haven't been notified yet, Tim Blair now blogs from here. Change your links!

Tim Blair's site back up and running

2007-09-04T20:06:00.001-04:00

All the posts and comments are now back on Tim Blair's site.

Blog problems updates

2007-09-03T19:20:00.000-04:00

(This is crossposted at Victorysoap 3.0)

The blogs are slowly being restored. I can now get to Victory Soap 2.0's login page, but I'm going to leave that alone until all the missing blog entries are re-connected from the database to the new location of the site. Tim Blair is operational, but the same thing needs to be done with the missing September 2nd posts -- they are on the database, but need to be restored to visibility manually. I'm not doing this -- the hardworking folks at Hostmatters are. I'm just doing laundry. If I get the urge to post I'll do it here in the meantime.

Server lag issues

2007-09-03T11:33:00.000-04:00

A server move didn't go quite so well for the site: all of the posts from September on my Victory Soap blog, and most of Tim Blair's posts for September 2nd, didn't want to go to their new home. The Hostmatters people are having to move them manually, so they won't be up for a bit.

On my end one more issue is that the blog isn't recognizing the new location for some of the scripts that run MT 3's back end, so I can't make changed to the site or make new posts. I am not so miffed as one might think -- I've been wanting to change the blog for a while, for various reasons. Perhaps this is a signal for me to do so. In the meantime, I may temporarily use my Blogspot account for new posts.

Where o where has my traceroute gone?

2007-02-01T21:42:00.000-05:00

Not being able to get to any of my sites makes me feel like I'm not even on the internet. Here's the reason -- though I don't understand it. I don't like the whole "can't do anything about it" feeling either. What to do, what to do...

All the Spleenville sites are down including Victorysoap, Sine Qua Non, and Tim Blair's site. I can't get on the Hosting Matters website or, of course, any other site on Hosting Matters. Blogger is acting bizarre too. I can't even get any email from my Spleenville.com email address. Hello? Hellloooooo! Anyone there?

Rrrr.

Update: Level3 are these... fine people. (I was not going to type "bozos." Honest.)

Final update: everything is up and running! And it turns out that it wasn't Level3's fault after all, but in fact the dreaded scourge of the world's weather. That's right: Al Gore breathed upon Atlanta and froze everything! Where is Batman when you need him?

Site slowdown

2006-09-14T13:27:00.000-04:00

The site is slow to inaccessible right now (1:21 PM EST) -- ftp and load averages are at "critical" on the server. I'll update when it's back to normal.

OK, immediate update: HTTP and MYSQL are also down.

3rd update: well, this is fast -- now just ftp is at critical status.

Final update, 1:27 pm EST: okay, everything back to normal!

DoS attack

2006-04-28T20:35:00.000-04:00

There's been a DoS attack on one of Hostmatters servers which shut down several major blogs (like Instapundit) earlier today. I thought Spleenville and Timblair.net escaped the effects, but apparently not. I can't bring the main hosting site up either -- the Emergency Forums are open though. It may be that sites are being rerouted and that's why my site and the other blogs here are down.

Database down

2006-02-11T00:26:00.000-05:00

The database for Timblair.net is down. A helpdesk ticket has been submitted to Hostmatters.

Critical site load

2006-01-29T21:42:00.000-05:00

Great, now the server's down. I love Sundays.

Update: okay, it's back.

Slow, though.

Second update: okay, that was short-lived. It's down again. Someone remind me why I bought a computer?

Down again

2005-08-30T18:48:00.000-04:00

This time it appears to be a Denial of Service attack on one of the servers -- not the one Spleenville is on, but apparently it's affecting everything. Fun!

Network issues

2005-08-30T07:37:00.000-04:00

The network is down for some reason. Check in to the Hostmatters Emergency Forum for updates.

Update: I'm staying home due to general malaise, so I'll be checking in frequently. Or maybe not; hopefully whatever the problem is (it appears to be outside the Hostmatters network) will be fixed soon.

Last Update: the site is back up.

Uncrashed

2005-05-10T21:57:00.000-04:00

It was a server crash. The site is back up again after a reboot.

Somebody dropped the internet again

2005-05-10T21:20:00.000-04:00

And things were going so smoothly too... Looks like the server is experiencing some site downage. I'm keeping tabs.

March fun

2005-03-07T15:27:00.000-05:00

I can't reach any of the sites -- not even the Hostmatters site. At least, not from the work computer. I will check the emergency forums.

Update: okay, it's all back up now.

Slow down

2005-01-27T01:25:00.000-05:00

Site access has ground to a halt again -- it looks like the network is having some problems. Check out the Hostmatters Emergency forum at that link for updates -- It's after midnight here and I can't keep my eyes open anymore. But I wake up at six! Well, six-thirty -- or until I can make myself quit hitting the snooze button.

It could be that I am stupid

2005-01-26T22:07:00.000-05:00

I just realized the site was down again. Oh noes! etc. Then I looked at the calendar: I do believe that today is when I had set my domain name to be transferred to another reseller, namely my hosting company. They had warned me it might take the site down for a bit. I sure hope that's the case. In any case I fired off another help desk ticket, and am bracing myself.

Update: nope -- it was a server monitoring tool failure, so they didn't realize the site had gone off line until I (or maybe someone else) notified them. Vigilance pays off! Anyway, they are taking the lazy tool down to the hosting company basement and giving it a good spanking.

Emerging from the ice

2005-01-25T11:04:00.000-05:00

Spleenville.com is back up. I'm still waiting on the add-on domains (Timblair.net, Victorysoap.us, Twistedspinster.com) to come up. Stay tuned.

Update: they are waiting for the subdomains to propagate. They'll be up asap.

Update #2: we're all back up.

Loons

2005-01-24T20:28:00.000-05:00

Oh this is hilarious. Some webfooted credulous plucked chicken is on the phone reading off every single hippyshit BushIsHitler™ talking point that have been chewed up and regurgitated and scraped up and dumped in the garbage and taken to the landfill and buried and converted to methane, which he breathes in... You know, all of it:

There were no WMDs
The Children! of Iraq! And their happy kites!
That axe murderess who got executed in Texas -- the new Blessed Mother of the Church of the George W. Bush Haters
All those poor murderers that were executed in Texas when Dubya was governor -- as if that was some sort of bad thing

And so on and so forth -- Hewitt reduced him to sputtering about how "it's not Christian to kill people." It's always amusing to hear people who sound like the sort of busybodies who think Santa displays in the public square are "too religious" attempt to lecture others on what is "Christian." It's pretty pathetic, but it seems about par for the course whenever the words "George Bush" are uttered in the presence of a liberal these days.

Search and Destroy

2005-01-24T20:22:00.000-05:00

I just got a message from Hostmatters. It was spammers. Spammers are swiftly replacing Nazis and tax collectors as the world's most hated beings, do they know that? Quite frankly I think it should be open season on spammers. Laws against hunting down and shooting humans should be lifted in the case of spammers. Come on, who's with me?

Monday, Monday

2005-01-24T20:01:00.000-05:00

Well, someone out there sure is going out of there way to prove this true. Okay, okay, I believe, I believe! Now can I have my blogs back?

I am so bored I am listening to talk radio on the internet. That's REALLY REALLY BORED, people. Neeeeedddd... bloooggg....

dingoes ate my website

2005-01-24T19:38:00.000-05:00

Glenn Reynolds gets the message out.

While you're waiting

2005-01-24T18:47:00.000-05:00

Eggs! You must love eggs.

Fun fun fun 'til her daddy took her webpage away

2005-01-24T18:40:00.000-05:00

Being popular -- or something -- isn't all it's cut out to be. It looks as if we've gotten so many visitors that we almost blew up the internet. The Hostmatters folks are busy moving us to another location in the cyber world as I type this, so in order to keep their servers from being transformed into a Salvador Dali painting they've shut down the entire site. When it's up -- well, you'll all know.

I/O

2005-01-24T16:08:00.000-05:00

The servers are having some hiccups today. Stay tuned.

Server down

2005-01-23T10:42:00.000-05:00

It's down at the moment. I have to leave the house on errands so I won't be able to check in until later. A help ticket has been submitted to the hosting company.

On the road again

2005-01-21T18:53:00.000-05:00

Reporting in late here: they got the site back up again. I must say they did it lickety-split; that's good service! It was that darn load on the database that did it. I wonder if it's all the people trying to register at Tim's site. Oh well.

I paid for and downloaded Expression Engine (the Pmachine Pro upgrade), so I'll install that sometime this weekend and see if it will work more efficiently. If worse comes to worse, I could take away the registration link and force wannabe commenters to email me directly, and then I'll register them myself.

down again

2005-01-21T12:47:00.000-05:00

The database is down again on Timblair.net, and strangely, Twistedspinster.com. I haven't tried to do anything with the MT sites today; they also use mysql databases. A help ticket has been sent.

That was fast

2005-01-20T16:56:00.000-05:00

We be back.

Server outage

2005-01-20T15:29:00.000-05:00

The server is out again. The connection between the database and timblair.net and twistedspinster.com is down as well. I am currently at work so can't do much about this. Stay tuned.

Server Up

2005-01-18T13:34:00.000-05:00

Looks like it's all up again.

Server down?

2005-01-18T13:16:00.000-05:00

The site's server seems to be offline or down or something. I've submitted a help desk ticket and am keeping an eye on the status page.

That was fast

2005-01-13T20:48:00.000-05:00

The sites are back up again. Minor glitch? Shot across the bow? Only time will tell.

It's not even the weekend yet

2005-01-13T20:38:00.000-05:00

Right on cue, fuckin' electra (the drive all my sites live on) has gone down. Fortunately I was able to squeeze off an email to support@hostmatters.com a few minutes ago.

site down again

2005-01-09T22:29:00.000-05:00

There seems to be another attack. Time to start fantasizing about hot irons, tongs, and the rack again.

Back to normal

2005-01-08T12:34:00.000-05:00

Hosting Matters and all its sites are up and running again.

One more before I go

2005-01-08T00:36:00.000-05:00

It's a DDOS attack.

Hosting Matters Emergency Support Forum - Network inaccessibility

2005-01-08T00:29:00.000-05:00

They are investigating. Ah, isn't Friday night wonderful?

Update: it may be an insecure script. Evil!

And with that, I am off to bed.

2nd update: I forgot to mention; I just realize I don't have the correct time set on this blog. I manually changed the time of this post about a minute ago. The previous post was uploaded around 10:30pm January 7th (Friday night, that is).

Site problems

2005-01-07T22:29:00.000-05:00

There are some ping timeouts on Hostmatters. Stay tuned, I'm checking it out.

Light at the end of the tunnel

2005-01-05T19:24:00.000-05:00

Okay, we seem to be coming up now.

Welcome to the Spleenville Emergency Broadcasting System

2005-01-05T19:07:00.000-05:00

Greetings! I have set up this blog in case of regular-site outages. For example: currently (January 5, 2005, as of 6:00 PM Eastern time) Hostmatters, the hosting service that houses Spleenville.com, Timblair.net, Sine Qua Non, and Victory Soap, is experiencing down time due to scheduled server reboots.