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➩ ➩ ➩ 10/24 - 11/13: Errors, balky and unresponsive actions on MFO site
I really, really hate to be the guy who has to tell you folks this, but the site is acting up again in a very similar way to the past few episodes.
I’ve been watching for a couple of hours, and if it's any help at all in analysis, the issue seems to run in spurts- the site will behave normally for maybe five minutes or so, and then comes a longish period where it gets very slow in response, and then deteriorates further to no response at all.
It’s almost as if there is some process which is running intermittently which is using so much of the server resources that everything else either runs very slowly or even not at all. I’d think that if it was an electronic (equipment) problem it likely would just break and not work at all. That suggests that perhaps some sort of intermittent data process occurs which is almost more than the server can handle, or possibly a bandwidth issue where just too many users are trying to access the site all at the same time.
There must be some sort of analytic record which documents various parameters of server activity. I surely hope so, anyhow.
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Additional note, at 20:35 PDST: I just noticed that the time stamp on this post is also wrong- it's showing 4:50PM.
I've attempted to alert Chip and David to the site problems via email.