Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday 8 AM UK / 9 CEST / 3 AM EST / midnight PST

[badman]

We will be performing scheduled back-end maintenance this Thursday (that’s tomorrow!) at 8 AM UK / 9 CEST / 3 AM EST / midnight PST.

We expect this maintenance window to take up around 2 hours barring any major hiccups, and Dirty Bomb login services and the forums will not be accessible during this time.

We’ll be posting updates on Twitter, so be sure to check that if you’re feeling lonely.

[Mustang]

On a somewhat similar vein, what was the website slowness cause/fix?

[MrFunkyFunk]

Oh no we won’t be able to fill the servers like we do each morning or keep the medics threads alive

Is it to prepare the new folks arrival?

[Wezelkrozum]

Is it to prepare the new folks arrival?

Maybe they’re going to integrate the DB Alpha Webservices! :rolleyes:

[badman]

On a somewhat similar vein, what was the website slowness cause/fix?

Technical People will be able to shed more light on this, but in a nutshell, SQL insisted on doing a DNS look-up every single time a page was loaded despite us explicitly telling it that everything’s going to be just fine and it shouldn’t worry about it. There was an extra sprinkling of irony because DNS was the first thing that came to mind but we thought that couldn’t be it because it’s disabled in the config. That was a fun day of debugging, in any case.

[Mustang]

“You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to badman again.”

[badman]

<3

Maintenance complete!

[Hundopercent]

Technical People will be able to shed more light on this, but in a nutshell, SQL insisted on doing a DNS look-up every single time a page was loaded despite us explicitly telling it that everything’s going to be just fine and it shouldn’t worry about it. There was an extra sprinkling of irony because DNS was the first thing that came to mind but we thought that couldn’t be it because it’s disabled in the config. That was a fun day of debugging, in any case.

Gotta love DNS