KeenSpace down.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:01 pm

I think Boardy's FTP is still off-line as well as its Auto update. I think those only work for YDK right now, sorry Ghastly.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:42 pm

Grrrrrr....

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:28 pm

... How do you tell which one your sites are on?

I'd like to know which one my strips sit on right now.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:01 pm

If you got your account before June 1st 2003 you're on Boardy and after that you're on YDK (I think, I'm fairly certain).

BunELovecraft · Post by **BunELovecraft** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:59 pm

I really hope boardy ftp will be up again soon! Not bein' able to update is makin' me nervous...

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:43 am

Indeed, my readers are sending me the word update in giant red font.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:22 am

Yeah that's the part that pisses me off the most.

It doesn't matter how many times I tell people that all technical aspects of my comic are completely out of my hands. I have no control over whatever it is that's fucking with their proxy and/or firewall. I have no control over whatever it is that causes Keenspace to crash every couple of weeks for days at a time. Yet still I get dozens of e-mails every freaking day either bitching about the downtown or bitching about the proxy/firewall issues.

God damnit! I just draw freaking comics. Period! Bitching to me does nothing to fix any tech problems but piss me off.

KleSt · Post by **KleSt** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:56 am

I'm getting impatient, i'm also a "Boardy" user, I was about to reach the strip #100 of my comic that i had to post a week ago, I hope this issue gets solved soon.

BunELovecraft · Post by **BunELovecraft** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:52 pm

Yeesh yeah, for once I'm glad that my readers haven't emailed me...of course, around here, most of them just bitch me out in person. eh.

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:17 pm

Same here with Stalag '99. Point 'em to http://www.keenspace.com. We *ARE* transferring everyone over to Butch, but it's over the 'net itself because Boardy and YDK are on Sagonet and we're going back to HE.NET -- hopefuly with the assumption that we aren't going to be spam-blocked.

BunELovecraft · Post by **BunELovecraft** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:55 pm

Whoa, over the internet? How do you transfer so many huge files like that!

Bruce Bergman · Post by **Bruce Bergman** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:07 pm

How do you transfer big files like that, you ask? Why, over big pipes, of course.

Most Colocation facilities have BIG connectivity - multiple DS-3 [or faster] lines (usually fiber-optics) to the world, managed switches, and 100BaseT and 1000BaseT "gigabit" ethernet links to the servers. The kind of fast that you or I can only dream about.

Throw some serious bandwidth at the problem, and you can move the files between facilities easily.

--<< Bruce >>--

Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:52 pm

Ghastly wrote:Yeah that's the part that pisses me off the most.

It doesn't matter how many times I tell people that all technical aspects of my comic are completely out of my hands. I have no control over whatever it is that's fucking with their proxy and/or firewall. I have no control over whatever it is that causes Keenspace to crash every couple of weeks for days at a time. Yet still I get dozens of e-mails every freaking day either bitching about the downtown or bitching about the proxy/firewall issues.

What Ghastly said (except that I have a lot more sympathy for the bitchers. They don't, and shouldn't *ever* have to know a thing about Keenspace, auto-updating systems SQL databases and all the other stuff that makes comics run. If you weren't a cartoonist - or a computer geek- , wouldn't the mere mention of that stuff give you narcolepsy?)

Also, people who visit regularly can be divided into two categories - those who are fanatical enough to go to the forum, and those who don't. My experience is that people who have made up their minds about not being interested in the forum won't ever go to the forum, will stop noticing links to the forum even if you more them to the top and make them blink red and add a sound file saying "click on the blinking red link to go to the forum and read what's going on - not that I would do that if I could. And guess what? They're right too. I have no right to demand that they go out of their way to read about the things that I happen to want to tell them.

The upshot of this, though, is that after two weeks of no updates, people are beginning to email me to ask me if I've died. Please reinstate ftp so I can at least manually update and tel everyone what's going on.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:23 pm

I think Ghastly is just pissed about the people who KNOW what's going on, and STILL continue to bitch even though he's told them that there's nothing he can do about it.

Charlesbrubaker · Post by **Charlesbrubaker** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:04 am

looks like about 80% of the Keenspace is restored.

It's assumed that it may return tommorrow.

I hope so, I finally want to join Keenspace so I can move my webcomics "Gag-O-Rama" from Geocities to Keenspace.

I already joined it actually, but I didn't have time to move it there, but once SPACE is fixed, I'll immediately do that

http://www.geocities.com/charleskrazykat69/

SamSim · Post by **SamSim** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:16 am

KleSt wrote:I'm getting impatient, i'm also a "Boardy" user, I was about to reach the strip #100 of my comic that i had to post a week ago, I hope this issue gets solved soon.

You think that's bad. I missed my comic's second birthday because of this downtime.

Cdcman · Post by **Cdcman** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:40 am

The inability to ftp an update to my front page has me wishing that Keenspace instead leave the 403 error on (or some generic "technical difficulties, please standby" msg). That way my visitors get some idea that the server has crashed. As it is the lack of a new comic all week suggests to some that I've gone on hiatus again...

Post by **Kisai** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:32 am

FTP and Updating is turned off for a reason, the files are being copied, and allowing you to change them during the copy will wind up updating the wrong version. I didn't bring mysql and FTP back up because the machine that is currently boardy I'm not trusting to be stable. Autokeen is also not running, so there is no way to simply run a bulk update putting 'patiently wait for the system to start updating on friday/saturday.'

YDK is going to get some of the same effect once boardy's stuff is moved over.

Cdcman · Post by **Cdcman** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:06 pm

Thanks for clarifying!

Post by **Kisai** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:28 pm

boardy and ydk are now offline for ftp, please try to ftp to butch.keenspot.com untill the dns updates

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