DGN Downtime - The Real Reason

[Troy Spiral (13)]

A web spider, which is a "program" that searches the web for content and report it back to various databases, in this case Yahoo, molested DGN with reckless abandon. (Ok that sounds hotter than it actually was) Normal web spiders help us, but in this case we were being perpetually bombarded with requests for updates so much to the point that it ate up DGNs bandwidth but it was not obvious at first that this was going on. Finally figured out and fixed (with some help form our host IPS) it could have been fixed a bit faster but I didn't have the money for more bandwidth until just now.

Sorry for the downtime, i'm doing he best with the resources I have currently.

[pleasurekatzen]

Thanks for getting us back up and running, Troy

[n0Mad]

Yay! Troy is our hero.

Now, if just a few more people upped their status to Benefactor, or even Supporter, this problems would be fewer and farther between.

[phee]

What is this place? WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE???

[freydis]

So basically Yahoo brought down the board.

O.o

[Tyger]

I think its because DGN is a male board, and lately people are just talking about their feelings and what they think. So it just left.

[candyman]

I hate spiders...

[Epic_Fail_Guy]

Relevant to spiders..

[taysteewonderbunny]

Relevant to spiders..

Possibly related to Sponge Bob (thanks, ohmygoth):

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=TLcWNARPLB8

[Troy Spiral (13)]

DGN down again, due to basically the same reason as above except via a second source (also from yahoo) I went right to the big kids on this one (the hosts of our software / site) and they made some changes that were a bit beyond me. Hopefully THIS time will be the last time. Down another $10 in the process though. =(

[phee]

Oh boy

[Destroit]

That is super crazy. So it just went rogue and started attacking DGN for no reason? CONSPIRACY I say...I blame Russia.

That is super crazy. So it just went rogue and started attacking DGN for no reason? CONSPIRACY I say...I blame Russia.

[Epic_Fail_Guy]

I sense trolls on some trolling patrolls

*EDIT* I misspelled "troling" *FACEPALMS*

Edited August 31, 2010 by Epic_Fail_Guy

[Onyx]

Thanks so much Troy. I'm unable to help financially at the moment but should be able to very soon.

I hate it that it ate up the bandwidth like that but glad you were able to put a stop to it.

[WhiteLines]

That is super crazy. So it just went rogue and started attacking DGN for no reason? CONSPIRACY I say...I blame Russia.

No, the Russians could not have done it... This could only be the work of terrorist extremists.

[n0Mad]

This could only be the work of terrorist extremists.

The Westboro Baptist Church?

[Reaper]

Man, I want to help but am so far in the tank myself. Job is producing more and more though so maybe in the next month or two I can contribute again.