Stop it!!!!

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Why do you keep going offline Mumsnet?

Is annoying.

I can't post anything at all on Chat.

Somebody has been doing a spot of spring cleaning and has thrown away a Very Important Part.

Can you wiggle the wires , tech

Drink more gin and kick harder.

Feed the hamsters please.

DH made a snotty comment about my mumsnet distress. To retain some pathetic sliver of dignity I told him it, didn't bother me I was about to do my video.
I had to do the 30 day shred. Twice.
The rest of the time I've been walking around refreshing the page, sad and hunched - like desperately hitting redial when the takeaway is engaged.

I don't know how long it will take me to forgive you. Or feel my legs.

See? My punctuation muscle has been sprained.

This is getting desperate!
I might actually have to start talking to my DC in a minute!

( shudders at thought! )

Hi, The intermittent site offline message should be better now. Sorry about that. The dodge-o sized buttons should be fixed overnight.

Tech! Helloooo babe.

Yes it does seem a lot better now. Thank you.

Well done Tech!

Was it the Flux Capacitor?

Thank you, tech.

I've got rather fond of the great big purple sort button on TIO though.

I will miss it.

Tech, if you promise it's fixed, you can come to our London Meet Up tomorrow - although you'd better hop on a 'plane pretty smartish!

It seems fine now, Tech.

I liked that biscuit 404 page you had for a while, then it vanished again. Did it get crumbs all over everything?

Why thank you FruOla. That's very kind of you but I must regretfully decline. Though the weather here in New York is very London-ish today... makes a person wistful for the old place.

@Tech

Why thank you FruOla. That's very kind of you but I must regretfully decline. Though the weather here in New York is very London-ish today... makes a person wistful for the old place.

Ack don't be wistful.
It's cold and miserable.
Noo Yawk is where it's at.

Hello MadBusLady, the biscuit 404 is still there. The site offline page is a 503 status message.

What happens (if you are interested) is that each request for a page is dealt with by a web server and an application server. When you request a page, the request goes to the web server which will delegate it to the app server if it's for something like a talk page, rather than a file like an image. If the app server fails to respond for whatever reason within a short timeout period, the web server sends back a status code of 503 to your browser, which means service unavailable, and also sends that site offline message so that the browser can display something.

Earlier this evening, an application server was overloaded because of a human error (possibly by me though I couldn't possibly confirm such a thing) and so wasn't responding to all requests quickly enough. So sometimes you got an "offline" and sometimes you got a page.

Oh Tech, with all this honesty you are spoiling us.

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Ah, I understand that!

Was it same problem messing about yesterday from around 1600 to 1700 ?

Can I just say, in passing, that I really love how friendly and informal everyone at MN Tower's replies are.

Makes me feel al warm and fuzzy.

As you were

Thanks Tech, I am saving your message to read tonight as I'm been having difficulty getting to sleep and I think it might do the trick.