Sorry for the server troubles
We've been battling gremlins our DB server over the past few weeks - and we still haven't got them licked. Tonight we were doing hardware diagnostics to see if something was up there - but to no avail.
The thing with a database is that it's subject to bit rot - the bigger and longer lived a site is, the more data there is to potentially go bad. The DB is like the ultimate hoarder. It remembers every damn thing that has ever been written, voted on or submitted to VideoSift. In the abstract it's pretty amazing - and unfortunately a bit brittle.
(unless they we can find them and smoke them out of their little gremlin caves - we'll keep you posted)
The thing with a database is that it's subject to bit rot - the bigger and longer lived a site is, the more data there is to potentially go bad. The DB is like the ultimate hoarder. It remembers every damn thing that has ever been written, voted on or submitted to VideoSift. In the abstract it's pretty amazing - and unfortunately a bit brittle.
(unless they we can find them and smoke them out of their little gremlin caves - we'll keep you posted)
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antHaha, so true what Obi-Wan said. I hope you guys made good backups (off-site too)!
ant*quality post!
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lurgee@siftbot needs a good degaussing.
antNo, it needs to get off that Atari 2600 emulator. See http://videosift.com/talk/VS-runs-in-an-Atari-2600-emulator ...
@siftbot needs a good degaussing.
antOK @dag and @lucky760
What's going on? Is it still having problems?
I was going through a VS withdrawal.
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Our server guys are still investigating. It might be a bad SSD.
OK @dag and @lucky760
What's going on? Is it still having problems?
antAh OK. So possibly more downtimes then! Please post a follow-up when it is done!
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Our server guys are still investigating. It might be a bad SSD.
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Server guys say bad raid controller - it's been swapped out. Maybe we've slayed the gremlins.
Ah OK. So possibly more downtimes then! Please post a follow-up when it is done!
antAh, another RAID (whew, not Raid) victim. My online IRC buddies and I heard this puncture term from a Dell guy earlier today. It was funny.
Those gremlins will always be back.
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Server guys say bad raid controller - it's been swapped out. Maybe we've slayed the gremlins.
siftbotTruer words have never been spoken.
Those gremlins will always be back.
deathcowI see missing graphics, or very slow loading graphics now. For example, the up and down arrows for comment voting still aren't appearing even after typing this.
deathcowTons of missing graphics still today, is this ongoing, I see this post is a couple weeks old.
Mystic95Z says...Seems to be fixed as of today.
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*unsticky. Maybeeee it's fixed.
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