h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For the last few weeks, the DNA team has been investigating probable causes of the server errors that have disrupted h2g2 and all other DNA sites over the last few months. The sheer volume of users coming to the various Messageboards was recognised as being a major contributory factor and so the Central Communities Team has been in discussions with all of the DNA teams to find ways of reducing the build-up at peak times.

As the 606 Football boards attract by far the biggest number of visitors, the 606 team has identified ways that they can help the situation and earlier this week, Chris Russell, head of Sports Interactive, made an announcement explaining changes to be implemented to 606 in the coming weeks. While these changes have no direct impact on the way h2g2 is run, we thought Chris's announcement might be of interest to the h2g2 Community as he outlines some of the research conducted recently and explains the findings of his team.

You can read Chris's statement here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/4655158.stm

While there has been a noticeable improvement in the stability of the servers recently, work continues on trying to identify and isolate the causes of other ongoing issues. We'll update you once we have anything conclusive to offer and in the meantime, we once again apologise for any further disruptions and thank you for your patience.

Thanks very much for keeping us informed

I guess we can't get enough of that HooToo stuff!!!!

What's a 'wind-up merchant'? Is this a polite way to say spammer?

PAH!!!!!!

Someone who says stuff just to wind you up like a clock.

e.g. 'Have you heard that Mars is going to collide with Earth in the year 2007?' or something equally stupid. Or it could be something personal or something.

J

PAH!!!!! PAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! oops sounds like a renault ad

Did you take your medication?

nope! its just soooooooooo much better when you don't.......

also i would like to ad at this point the "Chris Russll" is/has nothing to do with me at all and any likeness is of pure coencidence, but I must say at this point i'm better looking.........

the back i presume is your best side as you are leaveing

just how do you justfy 606 board as a chat room????? please of course i'm leaving, i've been leaving ever since i became a member! its one's duty to hootoo!

Traveller in Time between the leaves
"I am not.

'Due to our explosive success we have to close '

The breaks they build in the Threadmills are functioning great. On most occasions there was a gradual recovery from the booze.

Less then a year ago most server problems ended with a sudden complete down, silent for some minutes and slowly waking up again. "

can you please translate for the rest of us

as all day i've been wearing tight speedos and the lack of circulation has been a bit of a prob,


ps don't ask about the speedos its a long story

TiT's got a point - the whole place used to pack up. That's certainly got better

christ hootoo being hootoo again thats the point it was sooo ok! for the place to pack up! it made hootoo, hootoo the place to be at!

Traveller in Time retracing log
"Should have used <QUOTE> tags. . .


There is talk in this thread about leaves . . well I never even sign out and I check for being online every few minutes (400 accounts total and 75 Researchers on HooToo)
in reply to the previous postings


The quote is from < <./>/dna/mb606/F2231922</.> > as mentioned on the news site


And I think I notice an improvement over time already.
Last summer we really went down for some time, this year we gradually recover after a period of busy messages.

As the data base server ('Elton') starts getting problems, the web servers ('NARTHUR's) starts generating simple replies to prevent the queue getting too long.
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