Author Topic: m6 gone away again? (Read 18018 times)

Ursus · Reply #1 - 22 January 2008, 02:20:50

Yup... seems to be down... down... down... down... (gravity-y... Oh, 'scuse me... old Schoolhouse Rock song keeps going
through my head every time the forums go down.)

[Edit: Back up... just a short outage... maybe 45 min or so...]

Post Edited ( 01-22-08 02:36 )

willy88 · Reply #2 - 22 January 2008, 05:39:07

http://www.m6.net/history.aspx

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Back in the days when hosting companies would lock up the building and go home, all our servers were connected to
mobile phones of the network administration for customers to call on the slightest issue. M6.Net understands servers
and network are life in the 21st century and downtime can feel like death to many people running sites that their existence
depends upon. M6.Net took this seriously and over time has added six levels of monitoring, monitoring hundreds of
different metrics in the servers.

doggie015 · Reply #3 - 03 February 2008, 01:49:43

oh that is B*******

Urwumpe · Reply #4 - 03 February 2008, 03:11:35

Its a tiny bit slow today. I would say, some annoyed customers are doing a DDOS against M6. Or somebody just used the forum
search.

Zatnikitelman · Reply #5 - 03 February 2008, 05:04:51

Quote from: M6

...has added six levels of monitoring

Isn't that the number of atoms on a base alcohol molecule!?

Urwumpe · Reply #6 - 03 February 2008, 13:34:14

Uh no.. does not fit to alcohol. Its the number of carbon molecules (And Carbon atoms have the number 6 in the period system)
in a Benzene molecule. 1:6 is also the mixture ration of LH2 to LO2 in the space shuttle main engines. And 6 is the favorite
number of Bert from the Sesame Street. And we all know Bert is Evil...

Maybe M6 is run by Bert and is a convert organization for maintaining secret communication with Osama? Maybe M6 handles his
email? And that the outages are in fact, US cruise missiles aiming at Osamas secret command center?

But MI6 is also the British external intelligence agency...

Cornflake · Reply #7 - 03 February 2008, 18:30:30

Yeah I haven't been even able to load the forum once since Friday. About Friday afternoon I started getting the "connection
was reset" message in Firefox after it tried to load for ten minutes. It's been slow all week actually... I've been having to
regularly sit and wait for it to load several minutes until it went down completley.

If you ask me, whatever servers the forums are on are a pile of fail. I think I might start posting on these forums, they
seem like the 2nd most active Orbiter forum, and I've gotten a lot of useful feedback from the friendly folks here. Plus i'm
sick of the slowless of the Orbiter forum.

When I was doing a search on the 'net I found threads on this forum from last year talking about forum outages...

MJR · Reply #8 - 03 February 2008, 19:36:28

Its down for sure.

Urwumpe · Reply #9 - 03 February 2008, 21:58:22

It goes up again - i get error messages again.

MJR · Reply #10 - 03 February 2008, 22:41:22

My sceario is that is is extremely slow and I cannot refreash the page because it just loads the page forever.

Cornflake · Reply #11 - 03 February 2008, 23:26:38

I'm able to get on the forum now, but It's still pretty slow on loading. I wonder what the deal is...

linguofreak · Reply #12 - 04 February 2008, 00:08:16

As far as I can tell, it's not been literally *down* at any point today or yesterday. What I *have* found, is that
pinging it yesterday revealed a latency of 1500 milliseconds, and today it shows up at around 2500. So everything
loads extremely slowly, and the connection times out more often than not. So, it's *effectively* down, even though
it's up.

Look at it this way, we'd be thrilled to get that kind of latency from Brighton Beach.

EDIT: As I said in another topic: "We choose to use the M6 forum not because it is easy..."

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Cornflake · Reply #13 - 04 February 2008, 00:14:11

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linguofreak wrote:
Look at it this way, we'd be thrilled to get that kind of latency from Brighton Beach.

Hahaha, yeah. Even still though if the forum's pinging at 2500, I wait 10 minutes and it doesn't load at all. And I spoke too fast, I'm not able to access any pages today either.

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linguofreak · Reply #14 - 04 February 2008, 05:20:28

Well, with it pinging at 2500, it may not be possible for to get a page loaded in any reasonable amount of time. But in
any case, now the ping time is down to the 500's range, and I'm able to access the main page of the forum, but when
I try actually visiting any topics, I get the whole "Server Error in '/' Application" message that we get whenever the
forum's totally down.

Doug Beachy · Reply #15 - 04 February 2008, 06:20:26

It really is astonishing how poor M6's service is. Downtime is a weekly event...

James.Denholm · Reply #16 - 04 February 2008, 07:38:55

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Urwumpe wrote:
Maybe M6 is run by Bert and is a convert organization for maintaining secret communication with Osama? Maybe M6
handles his email? And that the outages are in fact, US cruise missiles aiming at Osamas secret command center?

But MI6 is also the British external intelligence agency...

Now if we assume that point 1 is correct, and assume that M6 is a frount for MI6 (has been hypothisised on this forum
before...

MI6 handles Osama's e-mail! And his tech support!

Like I told you, it's all a conspiracy, it's all a conspiracy...

Remember folks, you heard it here first!

Urwumpe · Reply #17 - 04 February 2008, 09:02:53

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Doug Beachy a écrit:
It really is astonishing how poor M6's service is. Downtime is a weekly event...

yeah, i wonder why they did not start a cron job for this yet... ah, wait, it might cost them their jobs!

Cornflake · Reply #18 - 04 February 2008, 18:54:37

It's Monday now, isn't there anyone around who's noticed the forum trouble who can do something about it? Then again, since
downtime seems to be a weekly thing as Doug posted, maybe Martin just hosts the forum on his home computer and decided to go
on vacation... with Osama!

Simonpro · Reply #19 - 04 February 2008, 21:30:12

Works fine here, bit lonely over there though...

Scrooge McDuck · Reply #20 - 04 February 2008, 21:52:41

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Simonpro wrote:
Works fine here, bit lonely over there though...

Strange, doesn't work over here..

Cornflake · Reply #21 - 04 February 2008, 22:13:19

Where are you located, Simonpro? I tried using a proxy to see if the website worked for different IP addresses, but it was a
no-go. Did you try to read any threads? Because it seem's we're able to load the main forum page, but no sub forums or threads.

C3PO · Reply #22 - 04 February 2008, 22:17:01

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Cornflake wrote:
Did you try to read any threads? Because it seem's we're able to load the main forum page, but no sub forums or
threads.

I can get into the sub-forums, but I can't open any threads.

Simonpro · Reply #23 - 04 February 2008, 22:51:00

I can open most threads (usually takes a few attempts though), but I can only seem to post in the less busy forums (such as
education). Trying to post in offtopic results in crashingness.
Attempting to delete my test posts results in even more crashing, so I'm leaving it alone to have a think

Cornflake · Reply #24 - 04 February 2008, 22:55:45

Simonpro, where are you located? I had a reason for asking. If I could use a proxy, that goes through your area, maybe I
could access the forums.