03-20-2003, 08:13 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Sluggish Server
If you're wondering why the server is extra slow right now, and why the site wasn't loading about 30 minutes ago, it's because the server is getting hammered by a couple of external machines. From what we can tell, AvantGo is attempting to spider our entire site. That's tens of thousands of pages, and there's another user on a cable modem that's doing something similar. Our server team is attempting to block these IPs to restore server stability, but in the meantime things will be pretty slow. Thanks for your patience!
UPDATE: It looks like it wasn't AvantGo after all, just a rogue cable modem user who was causing an amazing amount of chaos. The IP has been banned, and the site is back to being snappy.
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03-20-2003, 08:21 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 495
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Go get 'em guys!
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03-20-2003, 08:43 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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Block & Lock! 0X
Glad things are back to normal. :google:
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03-20-2003, 08:54 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 361
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Impressive response guys.
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03-20-2003, 08:55 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Rats. I was trying to download the site to my Pocket PC! :wink: :worried:
Seriously, this could have been an error. Misconfigure a mobile favorite and this is what can happen.
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03-20-2003, 08:56 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 282
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Maybe it was a Palm user. :mrgreen:
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03-20-2003, 09:03 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Originally Posted by Eitel
Maybe it was a Palm user. :mrgreen:
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Nah. The amount of bandwidth a Palm can consume wouldn't have been noticed. :jester:
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03-20-2003, 09:06 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 390
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Probably Saddam. All's fair in war, right? :wink:
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03-20-2003, 09:55 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 399
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why not post his IP address and let's turn the tide on him..... of course, it needs to be a static IP 0X
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03-20-2003, 10:39 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 1,185
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[beavis voice] uhhh...sorry bout that...huh huh...hacking's cool [/beavis voice]
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Linear Mode
