Site Down For Servicing
By Barry Ritholtz - September 18th, 2009, 3:59PM
You may have noticed over the past few weeks that the site has occasionally been glitchy. “Node unavailable; Database Inaccessible” and other error messages have cropped up.
I am having my programmers make the site inactive for a few hours to run diagnostics. This means we are in Read Only mode — there will be new no posts or comments for the next 8 hours or so — and then we will come back online.
Some of this has to do with the increased population (traffic, users, comments and search queries).
Given the number of posts and comments, I wonder if we are butting up against a natural limit for WordPress.
Anyway, back in a few hours . . .
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September 18th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Good luck!
September 18th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Harry you are not on this board trying to add anything constructive, you use inane remarks that spark unnecessary controversy, you start arguments yet do not back them up, most of your facts amount to you saying “I have said it for months” or some such drivel.
Over the past few months I have learned a great deal about a great lot of things and have seen some pretty good arguments go on, and although I doubt many minds are changed through these arguments, the arguments are laid out in well thought out and factual ways and this helps stimulate growth of mind. Your agreements only stimulate your over blown view of yourself.
I have never ONCE heard any of these people – NONE of them say this or that will happen, they say what they see in their tea leaves and let others make up their own mind. You come on here stating “I have made a lot of money for a lot of people” “The indices will lead the way” “we are in for a 20% rally” This blog has many highly intelligent and skilled people, who actually know what they are talking about, yet every time I see you post I feel the overall IQ of the blog drop by 20%
So I feel proud in telling you
September 18th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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September 18th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
wow
September 18th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Franklin
best thing you’ve ever added to this board
September 18th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Lol, you shouldn’t poke bears arry.
September 18th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
When you say the site is down, BR, exactly what do you mean?
September 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
…it was, all comments were off, now they are on
September 18th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Big Up!
September 18th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
@BR: Your site host sucks.> Period.
What, you’re managing trillions and can’t afford a decent host?
Well yeah, welcome to NY.
September 19th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Barry,
You mean if I want to trade in the old site for a brand new, energy sipping model, that will make coffee for me in the morning, and scratch the dogs’ ears, that I have to wait?
Don’t I get any of the Cash for Crashers money? (CFC)….I’ve been waiting months….
September 19th, 2009 at 8:05 am
The host is Rackspace, whose track record and reputation is outstanding.
September 19th, 2009 at 8:57 am
franklin420d Says:
September 18th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
— wonderful graphic —
reply:
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I wish I had your talent.
Masterful.
You are a master at art, a master at observation, a master at commenting, and, perhaps a master at baiting.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:47 am
@BR
Agree, Rackspace is awesome. One of my long term holdings. I think it’s your wordpress set-up that might be causing the hiccups.
@f420 – bravo for standing upto HW. Btw, I haven’t seen your brother lately. Did your parents ground him?
On other news, Indian economy is growing at a brisk pace. More evidence for decoupling?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8073171.stm
September 19th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@BR: Actually the problem may lie with some of your subservient feeds.
cdn.eyewonder seems to be on vacation quite often when it’s time to reload/refresh
The price you pay for advertising revenue.
Thanks for the new “non-smoking” ads.
I suppose it’s OK if that’s what it takes to stay dialed into a great blog.
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BR: I haven’t seen that before. Its pretty weird.
September 19th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Part of the problem is sheer size:
Hopefully the database update will clear a few of these things up
As to the advertising, well, I promised my wife that the blog would not be a giant monetary sinkhole (I’ve been told that the job of a boat).
So far, I’ve spent $1,000s more in out of pocket costs (design, programming, hosting) than the site has generated. But the switch to Federated Media some time ago caused advertising dollars to really skyrocket. Its on a long delay — about 4 months — so the revenue should really kick in Nov 1.
I already have plans to add a few interns, editors, and graphics folks. Perhaps another conference in the spring, and the occasional contributor dinner.
The idea is to keep improving what the site offers . . .
September 19th, 2009 at 10:36 am
@BR: Well hey, you’re a big dog by virtue of this SUPERLATIVE blogspot. (hat tip CV for inventing caps)
Hopefully your wife will understand you have to spend money to make money.
Someone owns that Ferrari in the parking lot.
May as well be you.
September 19th, 2009 at 10:38 am
BR says-
“I already have plans to add a few interns, editors, and graphics folks. Perhaps another conference in the spring, and the occasional contributor dinner.”
and this-
“I promised my wife that the blog would not be a giant monetary sinkhole”
contradiction?- or do all those folks work for free :-)
keep up the good work Barry
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BR: You have the order backwards; the promise was first, THEN the advertising $, then add a few interns, editors, and graphics folks
September 19th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Advertising feeds have nothing to do with the delay. Sorry, BR, but I use an extremely effective ad blocker and never see any ads on this site, yet my delays were substantial at times. As you, I suspect a database problem.
September 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
@DH — “extremely effective ad blocker”? Do tell.
September 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Perhaps a post about making money on financial blogs is in order!
September 19th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
@ dead hobo – 8:57 – I have alwasy been a master baiter, it is perhaps he only thing I am truely good at :)
September 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
bergsten Says:
September 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
@DH — “extremely effective ad blocker”? Do tell.
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Firefox with adblock plus addon. All free and works great. Install and forget. I also like forecastfox – also free. And Keyscrambler, but you have to get keyscrambler from their site. Mozilla doesn’t have it.
September 19th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Barry,
More likely a server issue. Since WP is SQL based on the back end and SQL is very robust I seriously doubt that WordPress is the issue. I’ve seen way more posts and comments on other WPO sites with no problem. WordPRess is without a doubt a fine blogging system.