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I think I found the problem where we are getting large spam threads on certain pages where the parent post doesn't even exist on that page. Very weird. Must be robots just throwing random information into their POST variables. Mainly I'm posting here so I can comment and make sure I haven't stopped legitimate comments too.
Made some changes on the back end last night. The site was down for 2 or 3 minutes around 9:00pm and then again around 1:30am. You shouldn't notice any difference, but please speak up if you see anything amiss. Thanks.
Site was unreachable just now (well, 2 minutes ago) when I returned from Long Island. I was getting it around 1:30 just before lunch and our departure. Anyone else notice this? For how long?
The server was up, but just completely overloaded. Not sure if it was a traffic burst from somewhere or just something gone haywire. Seems okay now.
Image upload is back. Sorry about that.
subscriptions weren't working. Now they are.
I'll move the server move discussions to here where they really should have been.
[editpage] should now be working again. Any reports to the contrary are appreciated. As well as any reports of other weirdness. I'm pretty sure there are still some bugs out there.
The site was down again. I noticed around 7:30am, but traffic logs are a bit unclear and it might have been down for most of the night. Not sure what the story was, but a reboot and an fsck later and everything seems fine. I'll get this site moved to the new server one of these days.
Sorry about the logs being down for so long. The problem is very time consuming to fix because there are 1,125,435 rows in the table and it's been corrupted at various places, so I can't do a select all on it. I fixed the comment table (which had the same corruption) by going through it by hand and pulling out the corrupt entries, but that table only had tens of thousands of rows. So that was a pain, but at least possible. With over a million rows I just can't do it by hand. I'm trying to write a program, but it's proven difficult because of the corruption.
Anyway, that's my excuse. For the present I have just started the log over again. I should have done this before. I still have the old data, and I'm still trying to fix it, but at least you can see your log again now - it's just that it starts from a few minutes ago, so you'll only see data going forward.
The site was down for a while this afternoon (2 - 3 hours.) I think the other drive failed. This makes some sense since it was probably from the same batch as the one that failed recently. These things have a life span. Still trying to access damage.
We had some fairly major issues yesterday, but it looks like not too much damage. At some point during the day our primary drive failed. Seems like this took a little while (it was exhibiting strange symptoms leading up to the crash.) Once this was detected the drive was pulled and replaced with a backup, thus some things posted yesterday disappeared (from between when the backup was made and the drives switched.) Additionally, the entire site was down from around 11:30pm for the next few hours. I'd appreciate any reports of missing posts/comments. Especially if anyone notices anything missing that was not posted yesterday. Sorry for the hassle.