Ok....Who is screwing with The Ledge?

ryan8472 · #1 07-01-2005, 12:06 AM

Really tho, WTF?

macfanken · #2 07-01-2005, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ryan8472

Really tho, WTF?

A Ledge meltdown and a troll on the same night... I'm sure it's just a coincidence

seeker007nmss · #3 07-01-2005, 12:34 AM

I can get on and then it goes....and then its back....... *sigh*

golden braid · #4 07-01-2005, 12:36 AM

This sucks. BuckinghamNicks is down too. It's really weird how they will be down at the same time.

GardenStateGirlie · #5 07-01-2005, 12:54 AM

I'm in the process of posting photos and it keeps going down

Dear Annoying Hacker Person(s),

Screw with another fandom.

Intolerance,
The Ledgies.

***ThePenguin*** · #6 07-01-2005, 05:31 AM

There is a particular process on the server hardware that when it runs, causes apache (serves the web pages) to constantly restart..hence the up, down, up, down you see. The process has to be stopped manually to make it stable again. That particular process gets started again everytime there is an automatic software update (which isn't that frequent, but has happened twice recently). I'm working on trying to minimize this downtime.

BTW, I do not think that there are any 'hackers' causing these problems. It is from what I wrote above. When people see a large number of visitors to the Ledge at one time, that is typically a search engine spider. I saw the one yesterday and it was Inktomi. They come in with very similar IP addresses (traced back to them) and go from thread to thread to build their indexes. As the Ledge has been busier lately, I think it is getting spidered more frequently.

- Marty

PS-- Even as I wrote this there is a large number of guests online...they are simply hitting links around the Ledge and belong to inktomisearch.com. Perhap the owners of inktomi are Fleetwood Mac fans as they keep coming back.

Mari · #7 07-01-2005, 06:26 AM

so that explains it... I think I get most of it. Well, good to know it's not some malicious person doing this. Good luck with solving that technical problem

WelshWitchPMD · #8 07-01-2005, 06:57 AM

I had something odd happen last night. Everytime that I went to read the Amber b-day thread my AOL would crash and it did this 5 times. It did not do it on any other thread.

**mylittledemon** · #9 07-01-2005, 08:38 AM

Hmm...I've not noticed a problem as of yet. Maybe if we were all donating the 12 bucks it would help Marty and Lis clear up any issues...? *wink*

SuzeQuze · #10 07-01-2005, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by golden braid

This sucks. BuckinghamNicks is down too. It's really weird how they will be down at the same time.

Nancy explained in another thread that this is because she uses Marty's server for her site.

lagringader&r · #11 07-01-2005, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

I had something odd happen last night. Everytime that I went to read the Amber b-day thread my AOL would crash and it did this 5 times. It did not do it on any other thread.

AMBER is the hacker and that's how she gets her kicks on her birthday! And everytime it crashes, she goes

WelshWitchPMD · #12 07-02-2005, 04:13 PM

There are a high number of guests on here right now 138.