[RESOLVED] Intermittent Website Connections

LL is weening us off the forums!

They're on the case.

http://alo.antville.org/

If there was any truth to it, it's a bit of an own goal lol. The amount of time this has gone on, which let's face it, has nothing to do with cutting edge tech, is making them look very incompetent.

I have just submitted a "region down" support ticket for the forums

As a basic resident, that form of "Special Question" seemed to be the best fit.

Here's the text I used:

"The forums have been plagued with 503 and other errors, to the point where they are nearly unusable, since Friday. The forums are part of my, and many others residents', SL experience when I cannot go inworld. Please return them to working order."

p.s. I deleted this post, because I thot it could be construed as simply rabble-rousing. Then I decided that wasn't a bad thing.
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Solution: We are currently working on the issue and hope to have it resolved quickly

More Intermittent Website Problems
Monday, January 28th, 2008 at 9:04 AM PST by: Teeple Linden
Those of us who post here occasionally find ourselves in the position of play-by-play announcers. We think it’s important to let you know that we’re aware of a problem as quickly as possible, instead if letting it sit until we can blog a tidy post mortem.

Because problems in a heavily distributed environment can be subtle and difficult to thoroughly trace, we sometimes have to relay unpleasant surprises (in the form of the infamous [RE-UN-RESOLVED] tags) as our tech team closes in iteratively on an operational glitch.

Having said all that: These intermittent failures with our Website seem to be setting some kind of record for aggravation.

Here’s what we know so far:

It looks like a load balancer’s mostly to blame. A really stubborn load balancer.
If you get a 500 Error, a 503 Error, or a redirect error, hitting ‘refresh’ in your browser will generally get you a good connection the second or third time around.

Your irritation is thoroughly understandable, and we apologize for contributing to it with premature reports of resolution.
Multiple Web-savvy Lindens are focused on this. Some of them, still on the road to work, don’t know that yet. They’ll find out very shortly.
We’re not going to call this [RESOLVED] again until we’re sure the tag fits.
–teeple

if daily more then $1.4MILLION USD is spent/traded in SL, don`t you think calling in an engineer or 10 during the weekend to fix the issue`s so more money can be spent? 3.5% on all transactions would assume that

The "US$ Spent Last 24h" statistic is a fictional number derived from the sum of all L$ transactions in the last 24 hours, divided by the exchange rate. The actual real life money involved is $0 since the only point where L$ has value is at the time of exchange for US$.

US$ exchanged on the LindeX (generally around $250k/day) is a more accurate reflection of how much money is spent on SL (although that still includes currency speculators so the actual spent amount will be lower still).