Army.ca Status- The History of Outages & Dark Days

[Mike Bobbitt]

Thanks Occam, that might just be it. oldmtler, does it look any better now?

 

[oldmtler]

I CAN SEE!
Attempted humour aside, thank yiou Mr Bobbit and Occam.

John Davis

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Fantastic, thanks Occam! And, not to sound too much like I strolled out of a cheap WW II film, but I believe I've also permanently fixed 'the German problem'.

 

[Occam]

You're very welcome.

And here all along I thought "the German problem" was "two steins, only one mouth"  :cheers:

 

[oldmtler]

I experienced a short outage between 21:03 and 21:11 est.

 

[Edward Campbell]

I've been having periodic, fairly short outages, too. Both my Linux and Vista boxes fail to even "find" the site for five minutes then all is OK again.

 

[oldmtler]

I tried pinging the site during my outage and didn't get a reply.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Ping doesn't normally work, so it's not a good gauge of the site's availability. (It's ignored by the firewall)

The outage last night was caused by the ongoing house reno... we accidentally knocked the Internet connection down.

 

[oldmtler]

Things happen.
What I find refreshing on this site is the honesty.
Are you having fun with your reno?  We just finished putting in a suite over the garage for daughter #1.  It was a learning experience my wife kept telling me.  ( dealing with the city was)

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

The reno is fun mostly because it's a new (to us) house, so there's lots to learn. All the old, well understood but unfinished problems are gone, and we're on to a whole new set. It's a journey of discovery.

Right now, the cable connecting us to the Internet runs about 80 feet and has 3 splices in it. Every once in a while I talk to someone who envisions Army.ca running out of a high-tech temperature controlled data centre somewhere under bright white lights... and I have to laugh.

It used to be on my office which doubled as a spare bedroom; I always pitied my guests because the combined noise of the server and the UPS are enough to drive most people crazy... That's why a I always recommend a good stiff drink before bed.

 

[oldmtler]

I work in a high-tech temperature controlled enviroment for an electronics sompany.  People imagine that we must work in a stress free atmosphere in regards to our IT system.  I can only dream that it was true. 
Thank God that I spend a fair amount of time offsite and working from home.

 

[mariomike]

Every once in a while I talk to someone who envisions Army.ca running out of a high-tech temperature controlled data centre somewhere under bright white lights... and I have to laugh.

Actually, I envisioned Milnet H.Q. as something like the Diefenbunker!

 

[Edward Campbell]

OK. I blocked a spider that was crawling the site; it was a marketing site, not a useful search engine. I was hoping that might have made a difference, but maybe not...

Have we got another spider?

I'm getting similar symptoms: painfully slow page loading with random periods of "normal" (quick) performance.

Once again the Linux box seems to work better than the Microsoft box.

 

[kratz]

E.R.C.

I agree, I have the same issue here with drag as well.

 

[PMedMoe]

Me too.  :'(

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Unfortunately not... nothing obvious from the logs at this point...

 

[kratz]

Pages are loading like spagettie (some long and some short) at the moment.

 

[Edward Campbell]

It's all good this morning.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Glad to hear it... I have been tinkering in the background but may end up causing more damage than good.

 

[Nfld Sapper]

Ah that would explain the times I couldn't connect today