Sorry about the downtime tonight. Don’t know what happened there other than our system became overloaded. Still don’t know when John is planning on installing the new equipment, but hoping it is soon. This was very disappointing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2939499/posts?page=223#223
And this one yesterday in response to a question:
No new equipment yet. Hopefully soon. Thanks!
Hopefully, or it won't really matter.
John was monitoring the system during tonight’s debate. Still has not specifically ID’d the bottleneck.
Here was his response when I asked what was happening:
“Database is nearly completely idle (0.25 load average) and web servers aren’t very busy. I don’t know why its screwed up. It doesn’t make sense. It must be a network problem.”
I saw myself that the load average was not high and that the cpu’s were mostly idle all night. I asked him if it could be a DOS attack or a configuration problem and he said could be. He’d look into it. Said the system was not overloaded and it would be a shame to buy a new database server and not solve the problem.
I’m in favor of swapping out the system a piece at a time until the bottleneck is found, but that’s just me. Don’t know what John’s going to do.