Insane Journal????

[josanpq]

Am I the only one getting this message when I try to access IJ?

"What does it mean?" asked the Luddite.

Internal Server Error

Comments

[libby_drew]

Pretty sure I saw a message from Squeaky yesterday about some work being done on the servers this weekend. I had trouble logging on earlier.

[josanpq]

Thanks. I was afraid it was just me.

[lilyeyes]

The site was read-only late last night, and I got logged on an hour ago, but now I get the same message you do!

[josanpq]

Thanks. So it's not just me. :-)

[boji]

You're not alone. I managed to access comm's earlier but now? Nada.

[josanpq]

Thanks. It seems to be accessible now, after 8 pm.

[boji]

I noticed *g* but thanks for letting me know.

[hpstrangelove]

I think they're moving servers. My guess is they don't want updates while the database is getting moved. Hopefully it won't take long.

[josanpq]

Thanks. Back on now. (It's after 8 pm)

From Squeaky this morning

[loupgarou1750]

I am in the process of moving accounts to the new database. Some accounts are currently stuck in read only mode. I will resolve this asap.

While your account is moving it gets locked into read only mode so nothing gets lost. Some accounts failed to move so they are still locked. I am going to resolve the reason they are stuck in read only mode and get them moved asap.

Edit: The problem wasn't locking, but one of the new database servers was running slow, I switched to the other and we are doing fine. I have 35k accounts scheduled to move right now. Also moving to the new databases will (hopefully) alleviate the comment rot problem. (For your DB types we are moving for a MyISAM engine to an InnoDB engine). The code handles InnoDB a little differently so hopefully stuff will get committed a littler more regularly.

Don't know what it all means, being something of a luddite myself, but I'm pretty much translating as "site will be up and down while this is going on".

Re: From Squeaky this morning

[josanpq]

site will be up and down while this is going on

Now why won't they say just that??????

When I want to read bullshit, I can always read the PM's speeches!