Sorry about the slowness and occasional errors you may be experiencing on SFN. Something very strange is happening and I'm still trying to figure it out.

 

Hopefully I'll soon be able to sort out the problem and get things working.

 

 

 

(If any of you know why lighttpd may be failing to communicate with PHP over FastCGI, talk to me.)

*cough* dedicated server *cough*

is "Slowness" a euphemism for Borked / unusable / SNAFU / FUBAR....

 

I probably won`t even be able to post this anyway *sigh*

(If any of you know why lighttpd may be failing to communicate with PHP over FastCGI, talk to me.)

Perhaps PHP's needs aren't being met by lighttpd so PHP is looking for an app who isn't interested only in FastCGI.

PHP is such a little tramp.

Fickle, whorish PHP.

Perfectly Happy Prostituting!

 

edit: I can`t be certain, but since Sayo was the only Admin of here just, and everything seems to working ok again , I Think he may have Fixed it!

 

edit^2: I spoke too soon

Last night I couldn't even open SFN. I was trying all the time, I even called my provider. I hope this really doesn't happen again!

My blog seems to have slipped into 505 land as well. I'm not sure if that's related.

That is related. I'm still utterly befuddled by it, though.

 

I may try upgrading the server's operating system, since we're stuck with older versions of the webserver right now...

 

Right, so a few settings changes seem to have sorted things. If you see any errors please tell me so I can look into them.

Why thank you.

I've noticed no difference Cap'n. Seems to be off and on, for me anyway. One page will load quickly, but with a weird bit of delay. The next page won't load for a minute or so.

I just upgraded through one version of Ubuntu (our operating system). That'd be why SFN was down for several hours today. There's one more version past this that I'll have to upgrade to -- I'll probably do that late tonight when there are less people online.

 

Things do feel a bit better though.

Why not wait ~ a month until the next ubuntu LTS version is released and upgrade to that?

I may well do that, now that you suggested it.