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Jasconius
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Over the last few days I haven't been able to access PA at all, forums or site... it was happening on multiple computers on multiple ISP's....
Is this accurate?
Is this accurate?
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Umm thats a forum JAILING, not even a ban, and a forum ban wouldn't restrict you from viewing the main page... and not even the forums from multiple IP's if it were an IP ban.
It happened to me too, and I was just as confused as you were. ISPs seem to be trying to route around the difficulty now, which has helped some.
If your ISP gets another provider your in luck, if not too bad
I kept getting an error last night that said "Could not query forum information" (I was able to logon though) and then this morning it transformed into the typical MySQL error. Now I have access, but everything is loading very slowly.
No really, some hired assassin released millions of cobras on the server stack.
So... PA is in fact.. being wanged? This.. this is a new feeling to me. :shock:
Well, the correct terminology would be farked. Slashdot also linked to PA, so they'd also be /.'ed. Annnd, Shacknews did, too, but I don't think it would have much of an effect (no offense to fellow Shackers out there).
Either a) it'll all blow over in a few days, or b) Jerry and Mike do something so outrageously cool about this Thompson thing that everyone will just have to know about it as soon as it happens. I'm hoping for the latter, expecting the former.
You mean aside from the $10,000 donation?
When penny arcade bites the dust, it has to do with mysql eating itself. The webserver and php scripts (hosted over dedicated fastcgi processes) are still alive and kicking, they just can't talk to the database. The resolution to this is not an easy one. Simply put, we need to rearrange the way penny arcade handles web traffic. That isn't easy, and it explains where I have disappeared to the past few weeks.
The solution here is to add in some more servers, but there is a technical bug in the way PHP handles things that makes adding servers really annoying. This is another thing I have been working on, expect something shiny and pretty by the end of the month.
For all non-techies, stop reading here, the next paragraph is a mini-rant about PHP.
The reason we can't add another webserver is due to a flaw in the way PHP and eaccelerator work. When a request comes in PHP takes the script, compiles it into an executable, executes it, and throws away the executable. eaccelerator takes that executable and stores it in ram, so the next request only has to run the executable. Life is good until you add in a diskless webserver. It mounts the filesystem from your main server and uses the network for all look ups. Life is good right? Nope. PHP is going to stat the file system atleast once on every page hit, eaccelerator or no. The stat says "nope no change to the file" and PHP goes on its way. While it will work, the overhead associated with that stating over the network will actually make the site performance worse. The solution? An elaborate system of ram disks, cron scripts, and hackish changes to the eaccelerator source code. A better solution? Use a different language
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Ruby on Rails ftw?
People need to totally stop coming to the website.
I mean.
What the fuck.
A week in the hospital is usually pretty serious. If possible, they usually try to get you ambulatory ( and hence out of thier bed ) as quickly as possible. You seem to be in good spirits though, so I am presuming to conclude that you are ( if not recovered ) then recovering nicely?
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.