Still trying to figure out what went wrong today with the site
(Maybe it was those pictures)
Regardless, a clusterf&^% from start to finish.
More to come later . . .
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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February 2nd, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Attack of the Ninja Photos I guess.
You may speak the Truth too much to the powers that be.
Keep up the good work.
We shall overcome.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I thought, after having hit refresh 600 times, The Big Picture had gone “on holiday.”
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
God Hates Short Sellers
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Pushdo related ?
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8125
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I think your site problems started yesterday and gave the appearance of a “denial of service” attack. If he/she haven’t already, your site admin might check the server logs for unusual levels of activity.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:32 pm
It was rough! Usually before I go to work I check in my Fave Blogs to see what they are saying.
“The BIG PICTURE”…gave me a warning ‘DATA BASE NOT FOUND.” It was devastating………..
Figured you were revising your blog… and it was just a “down time” for your crew to do “maintenance.”
Checked back in through day…and got the same “Full Caps” about “DATA BASE NOT FOUND.” Luckily I was able to check out your “Think Tank” and there was a good article by Welsh there…that made it worth it to do the work.
Glad you are up and running again!
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Amongst the unparalleled delights of working with interactive computing systems is that when a failure occurs, the clients (that’s you, gang) actually multiply the number of incoming requests by repeated retries, refreshes, and so on.
Which makes the problem worse, which causes even more retries, and so on, and so on.
In fact, failures in oversubscribed transactional systems can cause a state where things get so far behind that they can never, ever catch up.
Does any of this sound familiar to any of you out there watching the economy, national debt, foreclosures, insolvencies, bankruptcies, deficits, and so forth?
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
@bergsten Says:
Amongst the unparalleled delights of working with interactive computing systems is that when a failure occurs, the clients (that’s you, gang) actually multiply the number of incoming requests by repeated retries, refreshes, and so on.
Which makes the problem worse, which causes even more retries, and so on, and so on.
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Wasn’t Barry wondering why his blog site had less commenters in a post the night before his Blog Crashed?
Maybe all those folks who support Barry’s site came on and Crashed it All with their posts in Support?
Whatever it is..it was weird. But, it just might have meant when Barry posted his New Office Digs with the View of Failed Banks that it was TOO MUCH PHOTO ….and the bandwidth crashed the site?
That’s what I’m thinking…but being techno challenged…I might only have a weak opinion that doesn’t stand up.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I ask for more local first hand content
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/01/update-rss-feeds-traffic-blog-comments/#comment-251860
and you fill the blog with personal on location snapshots.
CIT @505 Fifth is real close by and filed BK.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Probably Chinese hackers.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I might also add that when things go wrong, they tend to go wrong in groups (possibly because no one by itself would cause the damage that the combination does). So, as TakBak04 says above, a 15+ megabyte download of pictures on the home page probably didn’t make matters any better (Barry later put a jump between the text and the pictures).
Multiple failures. Does THIS sound familiar vis a vis current economic matters?
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Low comment count? Easily fixed. Watch this…
TBP wouldn’t have these problems if they were running [pick whatever vendor, operating system, database, and application that others are sure to hate].
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Ahh, but can I see them from my Window ?
I’ll check 505 Fifth tomorrow
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Top Reasons for TBP Website Crash:
7. Blog traffic bounced off the 200 dma.
6. Novation CAT modem operating life exceeded. (Time to upgrade your infrastructure, Barry.)
5. Software written in Mineola instead of Mumbai.
4. ISP autopay failed after Barry’s generous midnite donation to SarahPAC.
3. Software written in Mumbai instead of Mineola.
2. Darth Rupert’s black hats retaliate against Barry after his untoward media criticism. (“Yarrr! … Revennnnge!”)
1. Visitor CNBC Sucks left alone in the server room.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:44 pm
“I think your site problems started yesterday and gave the appearance of a “denial of service” attack.”
as hgordon points out..
and, w/this : “…You may speak the Truth too much to the powers that be. Keep up the good work..”
from above,
BR,
there’s a real Reason why sites ‘mirror’ themselves..
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-mirror-site.htm
if this concept is ‘new’ to your admin. staff, they should come in, off the Playground, and do some studying..
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Have you pissed off any Chinese officials lately?
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:12 pm
your blog crashed.
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
BR, it definitely was the pics…I couldn’t access your site from home or work and both came up with the same reason and started immediately after your post of your office came up.
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Good Frontline on right now, “Digital Nation.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:38 pm
That’s the second time.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Barry, earlier today I checked your blog and it was showing ONE post per page. The site was running unusually slow too. I thought you were doing an intentional page-views play.
Whether it was intentional or not it would have increased the load on your host anywhere from 3x to 10x. WordPress doesn’t handle that too well unless configured optimally.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 am
What is that US gov. agency who monitors internal communications in this country? Is it NSA?
Watch out Barry they may declare you a “national security treat”- which means whatever they want it to mean- and shut you down.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:08 am
treat = threat
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 am
@TransorZ — Good Frontline all right…
“The Internet is ruining civilization. To learn more, visit our website.”
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:31 am
BR,
It was the pictures. Take the Citi one for example, the file size is 740KB, that is absolutely massive for such a small image and each individual viewing your site is downloading multiple images totaling many megabytes of data which simply overloaded the bandwidth of your server.
When posting photos on the web you can save a lot by converting them to .jpg with a reliable program. If they’re drawings or sketches, convert them to .gif
In windows I use IrfanView which converted your citi image to a jpg with ease shrinking it to a mere 47.7KB without any tweaking. I’m not sure what the equiv program would be on your Mac but any lightweight image viewing /editing program should do the trick.
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:34 am
I’m gonna blame Wal Mart for this one.