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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
 Posted - 04 Dec 2010 : 17:08:30
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| Yeah, this is the first time I've been able to get to the site since yesterday afternoon. Nearly 24 hours... Though admittedly I did sleep in rather late. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
8035 Posts |
Posted - 04 Dec 2010 : 21:19:56
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I notice that Active Topics page falls into sad disarray every now and then. It doesn't get updated when people manage to successfully post then unsuccessfully return to the forum. Quite a mess after a bad server day. 
Thus, a question: when submitting a post, why is the intermediate redirect page (New Reply Posted! or Your Reply Was Changed Successfully!, Thank you for your contribution!, Back to Forum!) even necessary? It just seems like needless cross-server talk to me (though of course I don't have any idea how CK is really set up), would it not be less error-prone (and time consuming) if this report page didn't exist and Back to Forum autolinked right away? Am I missing something about how this works? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2010 : 00:07:12
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Not really. It's just a somewhat useful function that allows scribes to know that their post was successfully accepted by the forum registry.
Is it absolutely necessary? No. But it's courteous. 
And I don't think having it or not having would make either difference to the nature of the ASP errors plaguing the system. You'd still receive the error message about your post, because it can also occur when we Moderate a particular entry in a scroll [where this posting message doesn't appear]. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 05 Dec 2010 : 00:28:31
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Originally posted by The Sage
Not really. It's just a somewhat useful function that allows scribes to know that their post was successfully accepted by the forum registry.
Is it absolutely necessary? No. But it's courteous.
Agreed. I actually like it. Most of the forums I joined in have something similar. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
8035 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2010 : 17:44:17
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| Perhaps a script which compares the new post with the previous post (or at least the last post by the same user) - a quick scan for dupe posts which will redirect to the usual (Thank You!) page immediately instead of re-posting when a dupe is found? lol, it might reduce the mod cleanup chores a little. |
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
1190 Posts |
Posted - 22 Dec 2010 : 08:47:00
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Originally posted by Arik
CK servers appeared to be entirely offline most of the day. Not even "Error ASP 0113" pages.
The page cannot be displayed
The request cannot be processed at this time. The amount of traffic exceeds the Web site's configured capacity.
HTTP Error 500.13 - Server error: Web server is too busy.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Yeah, I got it yesterday a few times too. Makes me right angry... |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
5699 Posts |
Posted - 23 Dec 2010 : 10:06:49
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Originally posted by Zireael
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Originally posted by Arik
CK servers appeared to be entirely offline most of the day. Not even "Error ASP 0113" pages.
The page cannot be displayed
The request cannot be processed at this time. The amount of traffic exceeds the Web site's configured capacity.
HTTP Error 500.13 - Server error: Web server is too busy.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Yeah, I got it yesterday a few times too. Makes me right angry...
Well met
Sadly, there's nothing to be done about this error. Candlekeep is on a shared web server along with other websites. Therefore, we have to share bandwidth and server loads and on occassion, such heavy loads may happen. I haven't seen this myself yet and suspect it's quite rare for the loads to be so high.
Unfortunately, as Candlekeep is non-commercial we cannot stretch to going to a dedicated server.
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
8035 Posts |
Posted - 23 Dec 2010 : 10:23:37
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| Interesting that Zireael (in Poland) would experience server lockout - I'd think the problem would be seen more often by those of us on the other side of the Pond, as bandwidths get bottlenecked crossing through 7000km of trans-Atlantic fiber (map of global submarine datacomm infrastructure). |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 12:46:10
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 12:52:40
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Originally posted by dennis
The site was inaccessible for almost the entire day.
Indeed. I was unable to reach the site from mid-afternoon thru midnight, and when it loaded this morn, there were only a few updated threads -- so it likely hadn't been up for long. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 15:26:41
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 15:42:08
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Originally posted by The Sage
You all can't blame me this time. My gremlins were all asleep. 
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Seriously though, I suspect it was problems with the host.
It was prolly the latter, as you say... But do gremlins ever sleep? |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
5699 Posts |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 18:17:33
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Originally posted by Alaundo
Well met
Aye, I was faced with "web server busy" messages most of the day. I raised a support ticket with the host, but (as expected) I received no joy and the stock reply of "it seems ok to us".
However, next time, I have a new tactic 
Does it involve the Sage's gremlins? |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 21:15:22
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
You all can't blame me this time. My gremlins were all asleep.
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Seriously though, I suspect it was problems with the host.
It was prolly the latter, as you say... But do gremlins ever sleep?
AFAIK, they don't at all. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4256 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 22:09:42
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Originally posted by Alaundo
Well met
Aye, I was faced with "web server busy" messages most of the day. I raised a support ticket with the host, but (as expected) I received no joy and the stock reply of "it seems ok to us".
However, next time, I have a new tactic
Care to share your enlightened tactic? |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2011 : 22:43:52
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
quote:
Originally posted by Alaundo
Well met
Aye, I was faced with "web server busy" messages most of the day. I raised a support ticket with the host, but (as expected) I received no joy and the stock reply of "it seems ok to us".
However, next time, I have a new tactic
Care to share your enlightened tactic?
SECONDED. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2011 : 00:15:30
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Alaundo
Well met
Aye, I was faced with "web server busy" messages most of the day. I raised a support ticket with the host, but (as expected) I received no joy and the stock reply of "it seems ok to us".
However, next time, I have a new tactic
Does it involve the Sage's gremlins?
Probably. I'd imagine they descend on the web host like the Uruk-Hai on Helm's Deep in The Two Towers. |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
5699 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2011 : 17:27:23
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Originally posted by Dennis
quote:
Originally posted by Dalor Darden
quote:
Originally posted by Alaundo
Well met
Aye, I was faced with "web server busy" messages most of the day. I raised a support ticket with the host, but (as expected) I received no joy and the stock reply of "it seems ok to us".
However, next time, I have a new tactic
Care to share your enlightened tactic?
SECONDED.
All in good time, all in good time |
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
1190 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2011 : 15:39:23
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| I've got another problem. Often, I'm not able to post - that is, page does not load at all, no error messages or anything. Sometime it persists for half a day... |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2011 : 17:54:38
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Every beginning has an end. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2011 : 03:15:20
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Again, the site was inaccessible for more than 24 hours. Is this a sign CK 2.0 is nearly done? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2011 : 03:42:35
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I'm not sure what caused the latest outage [and all my gremlins were safely stored away], but I suspect it was an external fault with the ISP, rather than a site problem.
As I recall, the same thing happened last year, whereupon Candlekeep was unavailable for almost an entire day. Alaundo later noted that the fault lay with major disruptions at the service supplier end. This recent bout, may simply be another such circumstance.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2011 : 04:52:39
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Originally posted by Dennis
Again, the site was inaccessible for more than 24 hours. Is this a sign CK 2.0 is nearly done?
About 18 hours, by my reckoning. I was able to access the site until about 1 PM yesterday, and then it came back this morn at roughly 6:30 AM. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jun 2011 : 05:04:39
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Most likely right. I mistakenly included the hours I slept (by which point I couldn't try to access the site, could I?) |
Every beginning has an end. |
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Varl
Learned Scribe
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jun 2011 : 14:29:33
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Here's the error message I got when I tried to reload Candlekeep yesterday:
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The request cannot be processed at this time. The amount of traffic exceeds the Web site's configured capacity.
You guys are popular! |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3765 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jun 2011 : 17:49:55
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| -Yeah, I had no luck accessing the site basically all day yesterday. Tried around noon, and it wasn't loading. Came home from work, and tried around 11 PM, and got the above error message. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jun 2011 : 18:24:14
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Yeah, I had no luck accessing the site basically all day yesterday. Tried around noon, and it wasn't loading. Came home from work, and tried around 11 PM, and got the above error message.
Ditto. It was up at 1PM Eastern, but then I wasn't able to get in again until early this morn. |
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Candlekeep - server problems
