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Forums went dead. What happened?

Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
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Hey, what happened? The internet crashed out for many hours today. Well, the Parallax forums anyway (which is much the same thing to me).

I had to go rowing and fishing on the lake, fire up the BBQ and take a beer to fill in the time. There is only so much of that a nerd can take :)

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  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    Yeah, the Parallax web site was down too.
    All seems to be fixed now.

    Bean
  • Jen J.Jen J. Posts: 649
    A number of power outages were experienced at the facility that houses some of our servers overnight. All is back to normal now thanks to Jim.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Ah, "facility", how quaint. I had forgotten about those. I thought everything happened on Amazon, Google, or other cloud services now a days :)
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-08-21 17:42
    Heater. wrote: »
    Hey, what happened? The internet crashed out for many hours today. Well, the Parallax forums anyway (which is much the same thing to me).

    I had to go rowing and fishing on the lake, fire up the BBQ and take a beer to fill in the time. There is only so much of that a nerd can take :)

    A bad, (good), excuse to cut the lawn and much needed weeding. :)

  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    You have a lawn? Mine died months ago -- with zero regrets.

    -Phil
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    Yes, we're moving everything out of this co-location facility, server by server, into AWS. It's just taking a lot of time to get there. These co-lo guys have had more power outages than a Chinese factory in 1995 and we've run out of patience with them years ago.

    Ken Gracey
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-08-21 18:01
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    You have a lawn? Mine died months ago -- with zero regrets.

    -Phil

    Well, the Rye and Blue Grass went brown, but the other 25% of fescue was 4 inches tall. Just didn't look right. :)

    Just checking, we are in General Discussion.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-08-21 18:10
    Luckily someone mowed the lawn before we got here. Just as well because the "lawn" is mostly inclined at 45 degrees. A large granite rock peppered with smaller granite rocks with some patches of grass in between.

    But there is always the wielding of chain saw and axe to be done to make wood for heating, especially for the sauna.

    Then the occasional felling of a young silver birch tree to make saunavasta https://www.google.fi/search?q=saunavasta&sa=X&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=975&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0CB4QsARqFQoTCPfCq-DguscCFcoFLAodxe0B5Q

    And the drive every other day to fetch fresh water.

    It gets even more interesting in the winter when it's dark all the time and -30C ! Then it's time for ice fishing.

    The 84 year old grandmother that lives here year round refuses to move to her nice house in the town. "It's boring" she says "There is nothing to do there".

    Out here you start to understand what the Finnish word "sissu" means. Which you cannot possibly grasp from a dictionary.

    Ah, sorry, I'm rambling again. Let's say it's cabin fever...



  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Jen J. wrote: »
    A number of power outages were experienced at the facility that houses some of our servers overnight. All is back to normal now thanks to Jim.

    A few hours without power? Pishaw. In 2003 I was connecting through JFK, headed to Paris for PBP, a huge bike event. We landed in the midst of the Great Northeast Blackout. Stuck at the airport for 3 days in August. HOT. No power, no air conditioning, no food. Slept with my bike on the baggage carousel. Ate all the protein bars and gels I brought for the ride. Used my bike headlight to help a lady change her baby's diaper. Eventually got to Paris via Miami, barely in time for the 1200km ride. Let the good times roll!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003



  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    Yeah, at the time, we lived about 2 miles from the unpruned foliage mentioned here, "A lack of alarm left operators unaware of the need to re-distribute power after overloaded transmission lines hit unpruned foliage" I used to drive by those wires every day on my commute to work.

    Just sat around in the back yard for 3 days listening to the radio and watching the world go by.

  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    Ken Gracey wrote: »
    Yes, we're moving everything out of this co-location facility, server by server, into AWS. It's just taking a lot of time to get there. These co-lo guys have had more power outages than a Chinese factory in 1995 and we've run out of patience with them years ago.

    Ken Gracey

    Where are they located, that has so many outages.
    Sicily, and you did not pay the 'Generous, better up-time' premiums ? ;)


  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    "unpruned foliage". What on Earth nonsense is that about?

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    I'm unpruned and proud of it!
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    Heater. wrote: »
    Hey, what happened? The internet crashed out for many hours today. Well, the Parallax forums anyway (which is much the same thing to me).

    I had to go rowing and fishing on the lake, fire up the BBQ and take a beer to fill in the time. There is only so much of that a nerd can take :)
    When was this? As it happens I was away from my systems, during the period in question.

    Ken using AWS is a good idea. It also happens that GitHub also lives on their systems so you're going to be in good company.
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    erco wrote: »
    Jen J. wrote: »
    A number of power outages were experienced at the facility that houses some of our servers overnight. All is back to normal now thanks to Jim.

    A few hours without power? Pishaw. In 2003 I was connecting through JFK, headed to Paris for PBP, a huge bike event. We landed in the midst of the Great Northeast Blackout. Stuck at the airport for 3 days in August. HOT. No power, no air conditioning, no food. Slept with my bike on the baggage carousel. Ate all the protein bars and gels I brought for the ride. Used my bike headlight to help a lady change her baby's diaper. Eventually got to Paris via Miami, barely in time for the 1200km ride. Let the good times roll!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

    I remember that one erco. Annoying that. My cable TV service was the last to be brought back online. Then I had my phone delivered by those <Expletive deleted!> individuals Verizon, and my ISP wasn't them, it was AT&T(!) but without power I was offline.

    Annoying.

    However..... Let us move back to our regularly scheduled arguments.

  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    mindrobots wrote: »
    Yeah, at the time, we lived about 2 miles from the unpruned foliage mentioned here, "A lack of alarm left operators unaware of the need to re-distribute power after overloaded transmission lines hit unpruned foliage" I used to drive by those wires every day on my commute to work.

    Just sat around in the back yard for 3 days listening to the radio and watching the world go by.

    To quote a good friend, "Oh dear.". Those toads own a power plant that's about a two and a half hour train ride from here. They've had more issues with the excellent plant that they bought from Con Ed, and whatnot.
  • jonesjones Posts: 281
    You might check out the "Leveraxe", currently on Kickstarter. It was invented by a pensioner up in your part of the world and looks like it might actually be a real improvement for splitting wood. I only rely on wood for heat when the power fails, but I split just enough that I couldn't resist.

    Heater. wrote: »
    But there is always the wielding of chain saw and axe to be done to make wood for heating, especially for the sauna.

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    jones,

    leveraxe: Very interesting. I'd love to give it a spin, as it were.
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