Server Update.
Hi Guys,
I posted a note in the show forums about the state of our servers right now. It’s disappointing, but after putting up with the downtime during the recent server upgrades, we’re not getting the performance we had hoped.
The TPN sites are getting hit hard because…well, hell because our shows rock! and we’ve gone to a round-robin load balancing arrangement. Unfortunately it appears that one of our servers isn’t playing so nicely. This means that every now and again (perhaps as much as 50% of the time with a round robin system) you’ll get a Wordpress ‘database connection error’ page. When and if that happens, try refreshing a few times - the page will eventually come up.
Please be extra careful when posting comments. Copy them to your clipboard before attempting to submit. Then if they go missing at least you can attempt to repost without retyping the whole thing.
Better yet, use the show forums (link on the right side of the main page) to post comments until the servers are acting nicely again. The show forums are completely separate from the show blog so they’re behaving well.
Sorry about this guys - everyone’s killing themselves trying to fix this.
Jon
PS - on a lighter note we should hear about our Penguin on Monday!