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The website is being moved to a bigger server with twice the processors and 1.5 times the memory. We’re still 2-3 times as fast as the old site prior to the relaunch, but they want to move us to a bigger one. What that means for all of you is that the server will be down for a spell (30 mins to an hour) this evening after ten pm.

So don’t freak the hell out.

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  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    So…e-mail you in all caps and bug you on Twitter and Facebook about how your website is broken again?

  12. 12.

    schrodingers_cat

    I was freaking out yesterday but the protests all over India have been heartening.

    Protest at India Gate in New Delhi. India Gate was a memorial for soldiers who died in WWI IIRC.

    Remember that it is cold in Delhi around 5 degrees centigrade so around 40 F

  13. 13.

    joel hanes

    We’re still 2-3 times as fast as the old site prior

    Yes we are.
    My thanks and congratulations to all involved.
    Special thanks to the implementors for the late tweaks, especially the slightly-darker background and the slightly more-visible font. These make a big difference to me.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: It would be foolish to make a blanket statement like that. :-)  I can, however, say that this change is not unrelated to the 502 and 524 errors.

  25. 25.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Cloudflare is what’s called a CDN, basically a provider of caching services so web sites can appear to be more responsive. Crowdstrike is the security company that Giuliani/Trump have somehow delusionally placed in the middle of the Ukraine issues.

  27. 27.

    J R in WV

    Wife tells me to climb up on the roof in the Noah-like flood rain and caper and dance while B-J is down. This is because I wailed “But What WILL I DO??” She can be funny like that sometimes…

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    @WaterGirl: I wasn’t 100% sure myself, but figured a little extra information wouldn’t hurt.

    Although Baud’s charge of “mansplaining” cut me to the bone.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    @Baud:

    I’ll give Ted Stevens this, the damn fossil went out in a blaze of aeronautical glory–his second plane crash at that–instead of choking on strained carrots at the Dumfuck Senile Senators Retirement Village. Great final act, Ted.

  51. 51.

    CarolDuhart2

    Question:  will the move lead to a little more charges for the site, and can you give us an approximate time for this move?

  56. 56.

    Dan B

    @schrodingers_cat:  My dear honorary Umma Massi lives in Malabar Hill one block from the Pryadashini Dash temple and 5 blocks from the Taheri Masjid.

    Beena, Anil, and their daughter Neelanjana liv in Defence Colony three miles from Islamic University that was attacked by police.  There is a mosque and a temple in Defence Colony, and a Gurdwara as well.  The market has Muslim food stalls.  (Superb fish!)

    I wonder how the thousands of doctors and tech workers in Seattle who are Indian Anericans are feeling.  I’m shakey and I just have people who are very dear to me caught in this mess.

  60. 60.

    Dan B

    @schrodingers_cat:  India Gate is such a beautiful site with the avenue to the Parliament.  I recall that it’s a short distance to the Muslim market side of the old part of Delhi, and the Jama Masjid which divides the huge Muslim and Hindu bazaars.

    5 degrees C is bone chilling as the temperatures last week were between 75 and 80 degrees F, and in in the 90’s a few weeks ago.  (Yes, I check the temps in Delhi almost daily.)

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @trollhattan: and a celebrirty

    I can’t remember which foreign trip trump was on when he got in a twitter spat with Bette Midler in what was for him the middle of the night

  72. 72.

    Jay

    What’s that smell leaking out from beneath the locked door of Dotus’s “War Room”?

    Desperation?

    Fun facts about this account retweeted by the president:

    —Account is 1 day old
    —First tweet was retweeted by the president
    —Follows no one
    —Claims to be a Jewish Trump supporter from Boro Park
    —Profile picture is from a NYTimes story about Jewish Trump supporters in Borough Park pic.twitter.com/vC8GsEZe7e— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2019

  82. 82.

    FlyingToaster

    @WaterGirl: Somehow, I don’t see “Reassessing capacity required after upgrade in place for 15 days” equating to “it’s your fault”.  But then again, what would I know?*

    *Prior to WarriorGirl, I coded multimedia simulation software, primarily for corporate training or back-o-textbook disks.  These days, I fix friends’ website errors after 10pm.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Did you cancel the edit by hitting the toggle on the Edit Comment box?

    You can start an edit, hit the toggle to close the edit box, then open it again at any time during your 5-minute window.

    Perhaps I am not understanding what happened?

  87. 87.

    Jay

    VICTORY: For the first time in 20+ years, Congress agreed to fund gun violence research: $25M at the CDC & NIH.This was one of our top priorities of 2019. Together with medical & public health partners, we lobbied, we rallied, we’re getting it done. https://t.co/Y5gHttq46k— Giffords (@GiffordsCourage) December 16, 2019

  88. 88.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jay:

    What’s that smell leaking out from beneath the locked door of Dotus’s “War Room”?

    Desperation?

    You don’t want to know

  91. 91.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jay:

    Wait, as in both the Senate and the House? This is good news, but all it takes is Trump throwing a tantrum and vetoing to throw a wrench in the process

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    If B movie thrillers which revel in their B-ness appeal to you, if the once removed relative coziness provided by the”‘So you think you’re having a bad day, huh?” school of film making tickles your fancy, one could do worse than frittering away the imposed time-out with SOS Pacific, available on Prime. Hesitate to provide any links as they give away entirely too much plot. Cast includes Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Eva Bartok.

  97. 97.

    Jay

    @debbie:

    when you are setting up a bot, sock or troll, you want to make google image search work a little for it.

     

     

    I am kinda surprised that the trolls, socks and bots construction crews havn’t figured out the you can just walk around taking thousands of “rando” photos of people, places or things, even in Macedonia or Romania, that will never “out you”.

  100. 100.

    Gin & Tonic

    This is the second time in as many days that the site has not remembered my nym/e-mail. Just like the bad old days.

  101. 101.

    Jay

    @Gin & Tonic:

    sometimes the site only gives me the text form, with no visual tab, and often with no nym. A refresh after a few seconds seems to bring both the forms back up with a nym.

    sometimes, a new window or tab opening of a new front page post, when you have another open, loses the nym.

  102. 102.

    FlyingToaster

    @karen marie: GMT-5, 22:00 in West By God Virginia (and the People’s Republic of Massachusetts).

    3am London, UK

    11pm Halifax, Nova Scotia

    9pm Chicago and New Orleans

    8pm New Mexico

    7pm California and the rest of Pacifica

    5pm Honolulu

    4pm the Aleutians

    Hth ?

  104. 104.

    Sab

    @J R in WV: Please don’t do that. We value you here. Maybe go read a book.

    I have actual books I want to read, but I don’t, because it pisses the cats off when I turn on the light in the middle of the night.

    Of course it is okay fo them to shriek and battle at night while I am trying to sleep. Because cats are sensitive.

    Tonight, back to Ta-nehisi Coates novel. It is beautifully written, but intense.

  107. 107.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    “Throw hardware at it” is an ominous sign. Chances are that Cloudflare is misconfigured.

  112. 112.

    NotMax

    Preparing to assume the fetal position in a half hour or so. Still undecided on whether to rock back and forth or to and fro.

    ;)

  113. 113.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax: The possible timeframe is between 10 and midnight, Eastern time.  So you might not want to assume the position until the maintenance mode message comes up instead of the website. :-)

    Which could be right at 10, or maybe not.

  116. 116.

    WaterGirl

    @Gin & Tonic: I suspect you’re not, but I will ask anyway.  Are you either not allowing your computer to store cookies OR are you using private browsing?

    Those are the only two instances so far where nyms have not been saved.

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