Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?

Subject: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: Anonny Mouse
Date: 24 May 06 - 03:32 PM

Seems like for two days (give or take) this site wouldn't load, and timed out my browser. Is there a hardware/software issue going on (like switching something out/in) happening? Is this normal? Just wonderin'. Not an earth-shattering concern...more curiousity. (OK, Kill my CAT now! LOL!!!!!)

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: s&r
Date: 24 May 06 - 03:50 PM

Sometimes. Mudcat's had a few gremlins for a while. There have been a number of posts on other threads.

Stu

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: Scoville
Date: 24 May 06 - 05:42 PM

It couldn't find the server for me this morning but it's fine now. Does that every now and again but if I just stop and come back later it's always passed.

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 May 06 - 07:29 PM

A friendly popular character by the name of Norm starred in the "Life - Be In it" Health Campaign which had been started by the Victorian Government in 1975. The campaign spread all through Australia.

He was very popular, a little overweight and couldn't always keep up sometimes too...

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: Amos
Date: 24 May 06 - 07:46 PM

It hardly ever stays down for more than 48 hours.

A

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 May 06 - 07:48 PM

Once knew a guy who claimed that too Amos...

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 24 May 06 - 10:35 PM

YEP - the norm.

Send contributions to the MudCat (5.00 us) will give you "klein-geld" twenty-fold.

Sometimes, you can log...and things don't come up.
Switch servers (ISP's) Remove Cookies (records on your machine)
Change browsers (Motzilla, Lynix, WinDoz)
This particularly works ... if you (or anyone from your ISP address) have somehow offended someone inside, "the inner-circle" and your ISP goes on the MC - Sh!t-List.

This is a clique of USA blues/trad friends.

If you are looking for Morris Dancers, or bag-pipers....look on another continent.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 May 06 - 10:37 PM

AM, it's a good idea to bookmark the Help Forum, which is most usually up and showing announcements about site function problems, so you can check there when the main forum is down.

~S~

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: Bert
Date: 24 May 06 - 10:40 PM

It could be a bandwidth problem somewhere between you and Mudcat. I see it quite often and just come back later.

I've also noticed that MSN sometimes does a search when I click on a direct bookmark, and clicking on the results of the search takes me straight in.

Subject: RE: Tech: Is This The 'Norm'?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 May 06 - 02:41 AM

In the past, you often could go directly to the Mudcat Help when the main site was down, but the Help - if I understand things correctly - is now on the same server as the main forum, and if one is down I usually can't get into either.

There do seem to be particular times when my access is more likely to fail, although there has been too much variation recently for me to pin down anything very specific. There appears to be a "daily" cycle and also a "weekly" cycle at work, but this could be my imagination.

This could imply that a peak in the number of people trying to access simply overloads the server, and the heaviest traffic tends to happen at regular times.

It could also mean, as has been suggested by Max, that one of our users who visits regularly at about the same time on certain days still is using (or unknowingly infected by) a "personal search engine" or other crudware that locks things up.

It could also mean that the 'cat bogs down, perhaps more often than any of us realize; and those who must reboot (or whatever needs doing to clear it) tend to take their naps at about the same time. They deserve to.

If you look at the date/time of postings shortly after the 'cat actually has been down, a gap in postings may indicate that it actually was offline and the times indicate when it went down and when it came back; but re-postings to threads on either side of a break obliterates the visible evidence pretty quickly. I sometimes look out of curiosity, to confirm for myself whether it was (probably) a problem at mudcat, or if my own ISP is just jerking me around again. If I can't get in, but posts have appeared continuously - as has happened in a few isolated and very rare instances - I assume the latter cause.

I assume going to the 'cat is a bit like going to the library. Sometimes, someone else is using the book you want. It's nothing personal. You come back later, and be glad said "someone else" didn't rip off the book and it's back on the shelf.

John