Slowness, database errors

[biglaz]

Anyone else seeing very slow response times and database error messages?

 

[SouthSoundScanner]

I have for the last day or two.

 

[Saint]

Slow

Anyone else seeing very slow response times and database error messages?

Yes the same thing is happening to me I thought it was my computer, the radioreference home page loads very fast but in the forums going page to page is very slow.
Steve

 

[blantonl]

Folks,

It's been a comedy of errors this week - starting on Sunday, that includes:

1. A significant set of outages from Rackspace in Dallas due to data center outages.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/164253

2. Crawlers loving to crawl through the FCC database here. 3.0 architecture changes will fix this, in the mean time our "popularity" have caused google to even more significantly crawl some of our more "in-depth" areas which can include some very expensive queries which hammer the database. Not to mention the crawlers that are not friendly.

3. Paypal having update problems between their infrastructure, and ours, which has resulted in payment updates to us delayed as much as 6 hours.

 

[Saint]

Problems

Folks,

It's been a comedy of errors this week - starting on Sunday, that includes:

1. A significant set of outages from Rackspace in Dallas due to data center outages.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/164253

2. Crawlers loving to crawl through the FCC database here. 3.0 architecture changes will fix this, in the mean time our "popularity" have caused google to even more significantly crawl some of our more "in-depth" areas which can include some very expensive queries which hammer the database. Not to mention the crawlers that are not friendly.

3. Paypal having update problems between their infrastructure, and ours, which has resulted in payment updates to us delayed as much as 6 hours.

Thanks for the quick reply Blantonl, we now know what the problem is, I'll just be a little more patient and good luck with the fixes.
Steve

 

[SCPD]

1. A significant set of outages from Rackspace in Dallas due to data center outages.

Rackspace needs to properly feed those hamsters that power their data center.

 

[Viper43]

Rackspace needs to properly feed those hamsters that power their data center.

Either that or put em on a diet so they speed up

V

 

[bezking]

It wasn't a lack of power, what it was is that the chillers have to take time to start up. The amount of time it would have taken to do this was enough time for everything to overheat. So, until everything was good, they turned everything off, which, as a professional network administrator, I think was the right thing to do.

 

[blackice]

can't completely blame Rackspace

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/rackspace_texas_truck/

 

[blantonl]

Oh yes you can.

That truck hitting the power line isn't my problem - that's rackspace's problem. It's their job to plan for contingencies.

These types of things happen all the time. The amount and length, and reason for the outages are unacceptable.