Comments for page "Server problems on Sunday morning (night) - resolved"

Re: custom domains hanging

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:33:10 +0000

A lot of people have a dynamic IP address, as ISP's usually charge extra for the "privilege" of having a non-dynamic (static) IP. So I doubt that is the problem :S

custom domains hanging

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:08:51 +0000

I'm still getting this in IE8. Nothing loads, and it times out at

http://www.wikidot.com/domainauth.php?setiecookie=1&url=...

I think my IP address changes pretty regularly — would that have something to do with it?

Re: iPhony

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:36:59 +0000

Well, we are still a small team, and we share various responsibilities ;-)

Re: iPhony

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:42:19 +0000

It easily wakes me up at night too.

Reminds me of my life some 10 years ago…

Hire someone who wakes up for you, instead. :D

Re: iPhony

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:37:14 +0000

Yes, this would work, but:

1. then I would not get notifications instantly, but in bulk with a long delay.
2. I do not want to automatically be notified about any other emails from other mailboxes — I read them in ~ 1h intervals, that is enough, and does not disturb my workflow.

What I really like about the current setup is that when I start receiving emails every 10 seconds, it is a clear indications something is wrong and intervention is required. It easily wakes me up at night too.

Re: iPhony

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:11:08 +0000

Or just go Settings » Mail » Fetch New Data » Fetch every 15 minutes when “Push” is unavailable

iPhony

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:11:26 +0000

Switch to an Android smartphone perhaps? :-)

(no title)

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:04:32 +0000

I discovered the reason why I did not get notifications about server problems. I rely on notifications sent by email to a special email account that instantly pushes every new email to my iPhone. But the phone for some reason could not log-in into the cellular network and was working only with my WiFi.

Now the thing I learned: Push notifications do not work with WiFi only when the phone is in "sleep" mode, because WiFi connection is closed to save battery. Without 3G/Edge connection, the phone does not have an open internet connection and cannot receive messages. When I touched the phone to check the time, I instantly got about 50 emails.

To prevent this, the simplest solution is to go back to SMS notifications as the second delivery channel.

Still, thanks

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:45:15 +0000

Thanks for the explanation anyway. This morning we got a few alerts from our monitoring service, and we were wondering what happened. It's nice to have such a transparent service provider. :-)

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Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:23:31 +0000

I'm running the same.

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Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:02:19 +0000

Thanks, I will look at this later. After quick testing I can only say that my Windows XP with IE 8.0 does not have any problems with custom domains and authentication.

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Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:24:39 +0000

Thank you for posting this so quickly, Michał, and for dealing with it promptly at odd hours.

This week, IE has been hanging a lot when I try to access custom domains. It times out at

http://www.wikidot.com/domainauth.php?setiecookie=1&url=...

I regularly need to clear my cache in order to get back in. For me, it's an annoyance. For many of our users, it's a roadblock.

Any recent changes that would cause this?

(no title)

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:53:28 +0000

Thanks for the update — was wondering what had happened ;-)