Today Wikidot was off-line for about 5 minutes due to database operations blocking access to page revision table. We added a column to mark tag changes in page revisions. This took very long time unexpectedly (on the test server it was a quick operation and we do have a full copy of Wikidot database there). Also it caused SELECT operations on that table to block until the ALTER operation finished.
Wikidot service is up again and we don't expect any major problems.
BTW, what we did was a preparation to implementing a wish to store tag changes in revision data rather than relying on revision comments only.
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How exciting!!!
5 minutes outage huh? What would that change the Wikidot uptime from 100% to 99.999%? A mighty effort!
λ James Kanjo
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Hmm, not sure if it's related but I can't seem to save a page if I'm uploading a file to a data form. Also, I can't save tags - both give the following error message:
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Saving tags should work (at least now it works for me). File upload is broken from the same reason as this was
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BTW, it should work now.
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Thanks!
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Wow, some downtime. First time in a long while!
Thanks for working on the wish :) Seems my request led to the downtime :\
~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
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Yeah, according to Pingdom.com we had 0 seconds downtime in April :-D
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A little late on this, but I just gotta say. I love a site that devotes an entire blog post to 5 minutes of outage and explains why and what awesome new feature is resulting because of it.
Go wikidot!!
Well to be fair to other blogs… this is a shorter post than usual ;-)
There's a certain limit to how much you can say about one five-minute outage.
~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
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Yeah, I know. Speaking of outages, any ideas for some upgrades to make it even more rock-solid and gremlin proof?
edited.. I did not realize this was on May 28th.
May 18th :)
Not sure what to suggest about the Nivo slider problem… if I have some time later I'll look into it & reply on your community forum thread.
~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
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