Downtime tonight
Some of you may have noticed that blogs was largely unavailable, or at least very slow, from about 10:30 pm this evening. We're having problems caused by the database that provides information on academic groups (such as which department you're in, or which modules you're taking) running very slowly at the moment.
To prevent this system from taking the whole of blogs down, as it was doing, we've temporarily disabled groups–related functionality. This may break some pages, particularly if you've subscribed to an entire module's or department's blogs in your favourites. The blog directory will also not work at the moment. However, the majority of pages should still work fine.
We should have a better solution in place tomorrow, once the maintainers of the academic groups database are back in and able to sort it out. Apologies for the inconvienience in the short term.
Chris May
17 May 2006 23:25
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Wow – I'm just impressed that there was a notice of explanation and a fix implemented (albeit temporary) so quickly. I thought it'd be tomorrow morning before it was working properly again. It is much appreciated when people go out of their way to post stuff like this late in the evening out of normal working hours.
If only the Resnet admin could be that efficient at communicating problems and implementing fixes… [sigh]
17 May 2006, 23:55
I was wondering why my favourites was error–messaging, but it must be because I have the whole of the classics dept blogs favourite–ised! Glad to know its not just me :)
18 May 2006, 04:03
Everything should now be fixed again. Sorry for the delay :)
20 May 2006, 11:08
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