What's up with SDN server problems?

[Long_John]

What's up with SDN server problems? Its been down all morning. I thought I was going to die.

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[PBMaxx]

What's up with SDN server problems? Its been down all morning. I thought I was going to die.

Yeah, me too. I was going through some serious withdrawl!!

 

[thegoogler]

Why don't these people get their act together?! It is down way too often, and for extended periods of time.

 

[kgm4]

seriously. i was going to have to actually *work* for a living. thankfully sdn is back up, and i only have to pretend.

 

[amnesia]

i felt like the guy in john's avatar.

 

[virilep]

Why don't these people get their act together?! It is down way too often, and for extended periods of time.

these people? dude. it's a free website. definately be happy we got it! haha. but yeah, i was checkin it about every 30 min. lol.

 

[thegoogler]

these people? dude. it's a free website. definately be happy we got it! haha. but yeah, i was checkin it about every 30 min. lol.

Regardless of the price, I think that if they make a commitment to neurotic pre-meds everywhere they should resolve these ongoing issues. It's like being a primary care doc: You can't be out of the office whenever you feel like it just b/c you're paid less than a radiologist - people are counting on you.

 

[PBMaxx]

This is the first time in like 3-4 months that I have encountered a server problem with SDN. But then again, I'm only usually on SDN during the day, so I cannot offer comment on the evening/overnight reliability.

 

[masterMood]

eh you guys are addicted.

addictions are bad.

server problems are good.

 

[sunnyjohn]

Oh my.. Thank goodness It came back up!!!

I was starting to worry SDN had gone away....

 

[Psycho Doctor]

at first i thought it was just my connection. Gee i thought after i donated (and so many others did too) they were finally upgrading the site. well i did get a lot of work done today.

 

[dbutz02]

eh you guys are addicted.

addictions are bad.

server problems are good.

I think I only have a minor addiction...but this morning I checked like three times and I thought to myself I bet there is going to be a thread about how people were having withdrawals ...but then I realized that I myself was freaking out...accepting is the first step

 

[Revolution #9]

at first i thought it was just my connection. Gee i thought after i donated (and so many others did too) they were finally upgrading the site. well i did get a lot of work done today.

You're kidding, right? Maybe you and 30 other people donated, pulling in $600. While every bit helps, that kind of money wouldnt even purchase the ethernet cords that it takes to run a site of this size. It would take an enourmous number of people donating to purchase faster servers.

 

[javert]

If everyone who complains about the server problems would donate, then maybe there wouldn't be any more problems!

 

[Psycho Doctor]

You're kidding, right? Maybe you and 30 other people donated, pulling in $600. While every bit helps, that kind of money wouldnt even purchase the ethernet cords that it takes to run a site of this size. It would take an enourmous number of people donating to purchase faster servers.

of course it was a joke and these server problems continue and it sucks!

 

[virilep]

What's up with SDN server problems? Its been down all morning. I thought I was going to die.

uh oh... 2nd day in a row.... ppl are gonna riot in the libraries.

 

[tkim]

Hey everyone, this is what Lee has to say about it:

Two times in the past 2 days the database-end of the fourms has crapped-out. I'm sure you noticed the 6 hours of downtime this morning.

So, I've brought in some uber-geeks to fix this damned forum.

They've check-out everything and our current tech guys are working with them. We're going to move the forums to one high-powered server, change to OpenBSD for an operating system and do some customization of the PHP coding - specifically in the search script. It's going to cost $120/hour to get it done -- but hopefully once it's done, we'll not have to face these problems anymore!

$120/hour ...

Yow.

So, it's being addressed. Be patient, please.

 

[mshheaddoc]

Hey everyone, this is what Lee has to say about it:



$120/hour ...

Yow.

So, it's being addressed. Be patient, please.

spanks for the info tkim

 

[i61164]

So that's 6 angel donations per hour. Can we scrape it together? I wonder how many hours of work it will be.

 

[PBMaxx]

Whoops! Open my big mouth only to insert my equally big (*wink wink* ladies) foot.

 

[Crake]

Does anyone even realize how much bandwith this site requires?! And on top of that it's free?! How does SDN even stay up and running at all? That is a fare better question than why is it down sometimes!