Questions/Issues/Wishlists for BFP

Kobi · 04-21-2011, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Medusa

Hey Kobi -

We actually have a couple of things happening right now. Yesterday, our site was down for a bit because our hosting company had a systemwide outage due to various issues.
I posted a thread about it on the front page but basically what happened was that Media Temple had an issue large enough to cause not only our site to lose service, but literally hundreds of sites.

This morning, we had a different issue arise. We hit a memory limit on our site usage which caused our operating component to shut down. This is both a good and bad thing. Good because it means that the site is growing and is evidence that more and more folks are using the site every day. Bad because it means we are going to have to upgrade our memory in order to accommodate our increase in traffic.

I'll be posting more about this issue once I speak to Linus.

Thanks!

Medusa,

Thanks for the update. I have no idea what you said but something
about a woman talking techy makes me feel warm and tingly.

Medusa · 04-21-2011, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Kobi

Medusa,

Thank for the update. I have no idea what you said but something
about a woman talking techy makes me feel warm and tingly.

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Jack says the same thing! (and I feel the same when she starts going on about welding/construction talk)

Linus · 04-21-2011, 10:15 AM

I suspect the memory issue is a side-effect of the network attack against the provider yesterday.

Medusa · 04-21-2011, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Linus

I suspect the memory issue is a side-effect of the network attack against the provider yesterday.

Heck yeah - And I saw on the wire this morning that Amazon cloud was hit as well!!

Linus · 04-21-2011, 10:42 AM

Hrmm.. be interesting to find out who was the source of this. It's a bit old school to use DDOS attacks these days to bring someone down. The last time that this kind of stuf was done was when Mafia Boy did it against a variety of sites, effectively knocking them out for 12+ hours.

ETA: I checked. Amazon's was due to their own error. Something happened to their storage in the backend.

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