DU's servers and hurricane Sandy

[Elad]

Just wanted to let everyone know what's going on with our site and the hurricane. Our servers are located in Delaware so they are pretty much right in the middle of the main area being hit. My impression so far tonight has been that connectivity has been fairly decent but intermittent. We've definitely experienced outages, but my connections to our servers have been maintained.

We obviously can't predict how bad it will get, but there is certainly the possibility that our ISP will lose power/internet connectivity entirely. So far, that doesn't appear to be an immediate threat though.

Skinner and EarlG are in the Washington, DC area, and I am on the west coast, out of harm's way. But EarlG and I have been in touch and things are going OK (relatively), he currently has power and is able to text me.

Hopefully our ISP will continue to weather the storm and we won't experience any major outages, but look for updates on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/democraticunderground) if we do.

[LadyHawkAZ]

1. Thank you for the update! n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. only getting the occasional pause - 5-10 seconds max, now and then...great job as always!

and thanks for the info.



Stay safe, EarlG and Skinner!

[NYC_SKP]

3. Kick and thanks for the update, Elad.

Best wishes to all for a safe weathering of the storm.

[lonestarnot]

4. Be safe Skinner and family and EarlG.

Thanks for the update Elad! Working just fine considering. Hats off to you all. This is a hell of a place.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. You guys stay safe

Du is secondary at this point.

[niyad]

6. thank you for the update--be safe, everyone.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. k&r

[DollarBillHines]

8. Put on your effing waders, elad...

It'll do.
DBH

[MADem]

9. I was having a bit of difficulty earlier, and it seems a bit slow this evening, that said,

it could be because I'm on the far end of this storm, myself.

[HipChick]

10. Thanks for the update..I'm overseas

and getting connection errors..
Had a rough flight out of DCA (sorry, I refuse to call it Ronald Regan airport), turbulence was enough to make want to vomit...
Hope everyone stays safe..thought it was just me

[doublethink]

11. Thank's, only thing I'm missing is ...

the right side of the Latest Page seems to have gone blank. Not sure if it's on my end. Thought the top right of the page had 'New DU'ers' and other stuff down the page, links to LBN etc... just getting a white page now ... otherwise all seems well in here so far.

[pinstikfartherin]

12. Thanks and stay safe, guys.

I figured that was why it has been a little slow off and on tonight.

[fishwax]

13. k/r -- thanks for the info

[Lars39]

14. You might want to cross post this for the Meta-heads.

Thanks for the update.

[gkhouston]

25. Done. n/t

[Tsiyu]

15. Thanks Elad

DU is the 'go to" site for so many of us; we appreciate the status updates.

[flamingdem]

16. Thanks!

The real crisis is when DU goes down

[nolabear]

17. Y'all take care! We'd be lost without you.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. NOW'S YOUR CHANCE, MAN!

"I'm in charge, here"


kidding. Tell those guys to stay safe. And dry. But if not dry, then at least safe.

[progressoid]

36. Ha!

That's great.

I just noticed that there are tiles missing from the ceiling. What kind of shitty White House press room was that?

[jsr]

19. Fantastic job. Thanks, guys!

[obxhead]

20. In VA myself and

the storm speeding up and charging towards us really helped I think.

There will still be a lot of cleanup to do, but hopefully not as much as we expected.

I love DU, but at this point I'm far more concerned with GOTV. This is not the derecho though, we had time to get crews heading towards us well in advance.

Thanks for keeping us informed though and I'll keep hoping everything stays operational for all of us here on DU.

[Tx4obama]

21. Kick! Thanks for the info :) n/t

[Voice for Peace]

22. thanks!

it's great to have a place to come.

[renate]

23. thanks for the update!

How thoughtful of you!

[Nye Bevan]

24. Heckuva job, Elad!

[Cha]

26. Thanks for the News, Elad Here's hoping

everyone and everything Stays OK.

[Starry Messenger]

27. Thank you Elad.

Don't know if this is relevant~on firefox I'm not able to see replies to OPs or respond. I just opened Safari and I can now. Could be just that FF has finally jumped the shark, but thought I'd pass it along.

[spanone]

28. knr

[Paulie]

29. You're doing fine!

iCloud, not as well: http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/

(Can't get this page to load)

[ProfessionalLeftist]

30. Hey Elad, what's "sync.democraticunderground"

That's what I've been on all day. Is this an rsync'd backup server or some such?

EDIT: Ok two minutes later, it changed to regular old DU. Whatever. I don't care. It's been up all day and so I'm happy about that!

I hope EarlG and Skinner stay dry, safe and powered up in DC.

[Elad]

33. Sync is one of our 5 front-end servers.

Just change your address bar to "www," reload, and all the links should be relative so you'll be back to normal. You can use an individual server addresses like "sync" but I don't recommend it.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

35. Tx. Ended up there by searching for an old post

I found the post, but the link to it was "sync.democraticunderground.com/post". Weird.

[LynneSin]

31. Eye is right across the river near Claymont

It's bad now

[SidDithers]

32. Yeah, figured something was up...

I'm getting a 10-15 second delay, Chrome's dreaded "Sending Request" on virtually every page load.

Hopefully, the situation begins to improve quickly in the hardest hit areas.

Sid

[WheelWalker]

34. Rock on !!

Blessings to you all.

[ashling]

37. Thanks for the update, but more importantly

thanks for all you do - all three of you - to keep this site available for the DU community.

Just so you know, I am a government professor at a local community college and this site is invaluable to me in finding and creating material for my use in class.

Keep up the good work!

[SoapBox]

38. Thanks so much for the info.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. A live webcam feed out the window would be nice.

With the media ignoring the impact on Delaware I've been checking out conditions.

http://www.deldot.gov/public.ejs?command=PublicCameraDisplay

Click the "WTMC 1380 AM" button:

http://www.deldot.gov/information/travel_advisory/

[applegrove]

40. I couldn't log in from Ottawa for 4 hours. There was some disruption for other US based sites too.

But not all of them.

[mimi85]

41. Take care all!

Thanks for the update. Stay safe everyone. We need all the votes we can get! j/k Although we do.

[Festivito]

42. I can't load "My posts". Endlessly loading. /nt

[HopeHoops]

43. Thank you!

[lastlib]

44. Freeperville is insanely jealous--or just insane....

[klook]

50. In Freeperville the hamster that powers their generator is running down

but they gave him some more meth so he can keep going for a while longer.

(OMG, I just went to that site for the first time in a long time -- it *did* take a long time to load, BTW... and boy, is it hideously ugly! Not to mention hideously stupid. Ugh!!)

[sarge43]

45. Thank you for the update. Be safe. n/t

[malaise]

46. Thanks

Hope you're all safe wherever you are

[Major Hogwash]

47. Well, the impression I had last night was of George Burns.

And this forum was just as slow as he is now.

By the way, does this mean that EarlG will be able to spell correctly now, even without access to the spellchecker?

[Rose Siding]

48. Elad, you guys are amazing. DU is quality all the way. Stay safe all. xo, from me

[klook]

49. No problems here -- same steady DU heartbeat I depend on!

You guys rock. Thanks for providing this great site, and good luck with continued availability.