why does du crash out so often late at night?

[orleans]

i couldn't access the site AGAIN for about fifteen minutes

this happens a lot. what's up with that?

[pinboy3niner]

1. No probs here--may be local issue? nt

[orleans]

2. yeah, i guess locally people aren't too crazy about liberals

--it only happens with du
not any other site i go on or test out

and du is the only place i feel like going late at night

[pinboy3niner]

3. I'm thinking less tin foil

Late night is maintenenance time, and that can slow things down if your sevice provider is busy doing things like that.

[orleans]

7. sorry--i was just kidding with the implied tin foil business.

someone else just posted that the site goes down for maintenance & backup around the time it seems to go out for me. so...that's probably why.

i wonder why it only effects some users. you said it was okay at your end.

huh--computers are such a mystery to me.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Whew! I'm glad to know you're not a nutter, lol!

DU used to begin site maintenance just after 11pm Pacific, and if you posted at around 11:07 your post would appear two or even three times, all with the same timestamp.

DU's IT guru, Elad, later changed the maintenace time to later and eliminated that glitch--I think.

But I know Elad's still out to get us.

[Angleae]

4. If it's about 1AM PST, I believe the site is taken down for scheduled maintenance & backup.

[orleans]

5. yep. im in the central time zone and i lost du around 3ish or 3:15ish until 3:30ish or

whenever i first started this thread.

i wonder what they do for "maintenance" that doesn't allow some of us to access the website.

[Angleae]

6. You'd have to ask the administrators for the details but this is a daily thing.

[TorchTheWitch]

10. I asked them once years ago

It's a daily maintenance thing the servers do. For me being on the east coast it happens around 4 a.m. I've long since just gotten used to it. It only lasts about 15 or 20 minutes anyway. Funny, but I've noticed that a number of sites do the daily maintenance at the same time... Home Depo's website always seems to go down at the same time that DU does, but their's takes nearly an hour to finish before you can get back in.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Like I said, it's all part of elad'S nefarious plot

I probablyy shouldn't be posting this where he can see it.

[TorchTheWitch]

12. oh now you've done it

You do realize that with just a few keystrokes he can cook your brains.

[pinboy3niner]

13. That's why I wear my tinfoil helmet

Mwuhahahahaha! Lotsa luck getting to me!

[TorchTheWitch]

15. You'd be much better off with the full tin foil treatment

After all, this is Elad we're talking about here... with just a few seemingly innocuous keystrokes he could possibly by-pass your old school helmet cloaking device. But at least you have upgraded from the inside out potato chip bag helmet.

[pinboy3niner]

16. Thanks for the tip!

I'm goin' out to get lots more tinfoil. Let elad do his wurst. I'm gona be unpervious!

Thanks again.

[Locut0s]

14. Indeed most sites perform daily maintenance at about this time....

In fact every site should do it if they are smart. Daily backups and maintenance are key to keeping a site operating smoothly. And of course they should be performed in the wee hours of the night/morning to keep from pissing off most users. Of course it's impossible to prevent hurting all users. I myself am a night owl and often come across these issues more often than the majority.

[Demo_Chris]

17. They have to copy the files for the NSA...

[Locut0s]

9. 2:49AM here and no problems....

Usually I chalk up late night down time to backup and maintenance procedures and the like.