last few weeks it keeps going down or is it my pc playing up.

I couldn't get on either Angel 'til about 4pm although i could get on other site's.

Havent been able to get on all day

krankie give the meter a kick man or take the magnets of it.

I've had the same problem today - error message unable to connect to server.

Probably needs a few more donations from Devachat regulars to get it up and running again

AOTN ? Fancy paying up

tryed to get on at 5 and its only just connected???

I've tried another config tweak tonight and will leave it for a few days to see if it makes a difference. If not I'll install some monitoring scripts to automatically bring the board back up and/or reboot the server when there is a crash to at least improve on any downtime.

Long term though we may need to look at a higher spec'd hosting option.

Whatever that means Krankie,it's sounds painfull! My wife said to me today,"Look at you,you are lost cos you can't get on Deva Chat!"If you need more cash,i am sure we would ALL willingly stump up!

Could always make it pay-per-post. That'd stop a lot of spamming although it would cost Mancot a fortune!

After two crashes this evening I've decided to scrap that last config change.

Not been able to get DC all day at work!!!!!!

C'mon Krankie

Its not anything to do with these Surgical Aplomb Donuts is it?

No, it started about two weeks ago. I blamed Sudoku at first as it started happening around the time I installed it but even after removing it still no improvement.

I've got a script running every 5 minutes now to check that apache is running and give it a kick up the backside if it isn't.

seems to be ok now mate

You have already lost me!!!!!!!

As long as its not our "friends" .

No it's not our friends. If anything it is that bloody googlebot and its yahoo partner in crime who seem to spend more and more time indexing the contents of the board for search engines.

For those who have got a clue what I'm talking about I might try another script to swap around two versions of robots.txt so they can only index the site during the night.

Edit: Don't think they react quickly enough to changes for that to work.

The search engines annoy me, you can't see what their doing.

Little bastards.

Krankie,why does my computer keep telling me firefox can't access the site?Says it may be busy?

Also,while you're there,keep getting reminders to download firefox 2.Is it worth it?

I've had the same problem too AOTN ............Infact I've had to have a look on 'Goat Passion'

Shame on you Waz.hope you washed yourself with bleach mate......or a rancid pint at the once great Peacock!

Krankie....have you fixed the problem as eveything now seems ok????????

Can you answer my question about Firefox2 please?

The problem hasn't been fully fixed but there's now a job running every 5 minutes to automatically recover from any crash so downtime should be much more limited.

With regards to upgrading to Firefox 2, yes you should go ahead with this. You won't notice any major change in functionality or the user interface, however you should still upgrade regularly to make sure you are fully up to date with security patches.