Calling all Monkey(filter)'s....

May 13, 2005 8:05 PM

Any monkey know what's up with the site? It's all down, tracicle's blog, Monkeyfilter, wiki, all of it. Anyone been able to contact her? Page coming up says that all these sites have been suspended. Would try her in KoL, but can't remember her name.
posted by codeofconduct to Computers & Internet (50 answers total)

Looks like a billing problem. I've written to her, as have no doubt several hundred others.
posted by Wolof at 8:27 PM on May 13, 2005

Seems like a bandwidth issue.
posted by Gyan at 8:32 PM on May 13, 2005

The official word in #mofirc is: nobody knows, and she's been away for the day so there'll no immediate resolution.
posted by DaShiv at 8:32 PM on May 13, 2005

No clue, but I'm glad you posted this. Email's in my profile here - happy to help in any way needed if needed - I'm already jonesing.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:23 PM on May 13, 2005

Mentions of billing and bandwidth make me wonder how much it all costs.
posted by PY at 9:47 PM on May 13, 2005

Makes me wonder if maybe she needs some cash flow for the site. I know many have offered and she has turned them down, but really, we all use it, she shouldn't carry the load. Any suggestions?
posted by codeofconduct at 9:52 PM on May 13, 2005

Suggestions: Depends on what the problem is. If it's billing, Paypal's there. If it's ISP complaints that the load is too taxing on servers or whatever, beyond recommendations for a new host, nothing much to do.
posted by Gyan at 10:14 PM on May 13, 2005

I guess my confusion is that I thought the overload problem had been remedied fairly recently. Also, it seems the last time Monkeyfilter went down, hard, it wasn't showing this type of page. No point in speculating, I suppose.
posted by codeofconduct at 10:30 PM on May 13, 2005

'Scuse, but does anyone know who the host is for MoFi?
posted by taz at 10:36 PM on May 13, 2005

Never mind - I was just being lazy... It looks like Ion Web.
posted by taz at 10:49 PM on May 13, 2005

I'm wondering if it was the wiki. You would think that if bandwidth was becoming an issue we would have heard about it before now (she did overhaul recently but I thought she had worked that all out), but maybe there was enough increased traffic to the wiki that it put her over the limit.
posted by Kimberly at 11:02 PM on May 13, 2005

Sorry. I just had to keep checking that page to read what everyone's panties were like.
posted by PY at 12:27 AM on May 14, 2005

I'm so silly. I noticed it down at the same time MeFi was down. For a full minute I couldn't understand why my ISP was saying that 'this account has been suspended'. Heh. I took it as a sign and went to bed.
posted by peacay at 12:38 AM on May 14, 2005

Sniffle.
posted by fish tick at 2:20 AM on May 14, 2005

Argh
posted by Bighappyfunhouse at 2:39 AM on May 14, 2005

Dammit
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:49 AM on May 14, 2005

Jesus fuck! If only there was some other community weblog with a similar setup but perhaps a slightly different colour and more members, where I could continue to post endless inane rubbish about beetles that eat magic pie and live up my nose.

But there's NOTHING.

Fuck YOU, the interblog or whatever.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 5:47 AM on May 14, 2005

LOL@quidnunc
posted by hojoki at 5:54 AM on May 14, 2005

She should let people chip in so she can get some sort of cheap VPS (or even a dedi) for between $40 - $100 a month. I pay $99 a month for one of my servers and it has 1000GB bandwidth per month, and very reliable. I doubt MonkeyFilter is even using a quarter of that.
posted by wackybrit at 8:40 AM on May 14, 2005

You're such a brat quid :)~
posted by Kimberly at 9:28 AM on May 14, 2005

Did she just move? I thought I remembered reading something about that.

When I moved my TypePad account was almost suspended because I forgot to update my address in their automatic billing form. Apparently the credit card companies actually check that sort of thing. I wonder if the issue isn't simply a technicality like that.
posted by sbutler at 10:34 AM on May 14, 2005

GYOFCW
posted by terrapin at 11:10 AM on May 14, 2005

I find your lack of community weblog disturbing.
posted by flashboy at 2:29 PM on May 14, 2005

harumph !
posted by sgt.serenity at 2:47 PM on May 14, 2005

People, this is NOT a Curious George thread. There are certain rules around here for staying "on topic" that are enforced by a stern librarian and a maniac on a recumbent bike.

On topic: I can pledge a few bucks, plus 5GB monthly bandwidth on my 1and1 freebie hosting toward providing MoFi with seperate space for the wiki, or a mirror site, or whatever.

And let this be a lesson to all individual webmasters and webmistresses: Keep a back-up administrator for your site (who you are NOT married to).

I just hope the extended period of silence from tracicle and family is not due to any family emergency/tragedy/crisis. Two of my favorite web neighbors are going through bad times (Presurfer's mother passed away; Mark Evanier's mother is very ill), and you know how these things happen in threes.
/Eeyore-like pessimism
posted by wendell at 3:38 PM on May 14, 2005

Let's all try to keep clam. Prolly just some administrative screw-up at the hosting outfit compounded by a little Murphy's Law and some bad Friday the 13th mojo.

If not, we can blame quidnunc and his goddam underpants.
posted by islander at 4:00 PM on May 14, 2005

Clamming up at once, sir. Starting now.
posted by PY at 4:35 PM on May 14, 2005

Yeah, but now its been ages. Everyones so fierce on the Blue compared to the MonkeyHouse. Its just not the same. Its like East Coast/West Coast Who wants to visit NY when theres a party in Frisco...?
posted by BadSeamus at 5:10 PM on May 14, 2005

Have to say i thought it was poor form taking off the fpp about mofi.
posted by sgt.serenity at 6:35 PM on May 14, 2005

quidnunc - say that thing again, what you were saying about wishing there was another community weblog?? hey, maybe...

nah...never mine...
posted by jasper411 at 7:03 PM on May 14, 2005

Have to say i thought it was poor form taking off the fpp about mofi.

Really, this post? It's one link to a suspended site. The link will revert to the site once whatever problem has been resolved and then the post will be completely mysterious.
posted by jessamyn at 7:08 PM on May 14, 2005

Yeah. I think it's best here, and I'm glad it is. I was wondering if anyone knew anything and there's no real way to find out because I bet her monkeyfilter email is down too.

It was a silly FPP, though.
posted by Kimberly at 7:47 PM on May 14, 2005

God. What with the "connection refused" and JRun around here all the time, I knew I could always count on Monkeyfilter for some posting and commenting when I got that itch. It had sort of become like a windows vs. linux thing... you expect one to crash and lock up constantly, but when the OTHER one goes kaplooey you just sit there, mouth hanging open, all shocked.

Crap. Here's hoping when it does come back up that we don't suffer from another Massive Loss of Old Posts...
posted by caution live frogs at 8:45 PM on May 14, 2005

Okay--the thing that is really bothering me......why hasn't she shown up here to say anything. I am actually worried, it doesn't feel quite right. Maybe she can't get online at all, I don't know. I wish someone had her phone number to see is all is alright. Plus, she's due....like...next month, right? ARGH!
posted by codeofconduct at 9:52 PM on May 14, 2005

Plus, can't talk to her on KoL as she has let her account lapse (dammit!)!!

I hate worrying.
posted by codeofconduct at 9:57 PM on May 14, 2005

< /worry>

What happens now?
posted by ZippityBuddha at 11:30 PM on May 14, 2005

What happens now?

Tracy comes home from a pleasant weekend away and everything gets sorted out.
posted by Wolof at 12:08 AM on May 15, 2005

tracicle has gmail, but I can't remember the address, since I would look for it on mofi. But there are a ton of people coming in and out of #mofirc, if you are looking for company.
posted by jb at 12:11 AM on May 15, 2005

As Herbert Kornfeld would say, "Whole website was down for days cuz the lazy-ass billing department bitchez be takin' weekends off."
posted by rolypolyman at 12:25 AM on May 15, 2005

What happens now?

Tracy comes home from a pleasant weekend away and everything gets sorted out.

Wolof has it. I went to a lovely 30th birthday out of town last night, thank you, and got home about an hour ago to discover the server message. We're resolving it, but the server is based in Michigan, where it's 2am.

You guys are so cool and addicted and I can't believe someone made an FPP to Mefi. I'm never going on holiday again. :)
posted by tracicle at 1:15 AM on May 15, 2005

whew...
very glad to hear that there was no personal emergency, tracicle.
posted by horsemuth at 4:34 AM on May 15, 2005

Hurray! Glad to see you're okay, Monkeybashi!! :-)
posted by fish tick at 5:25 AM on May 15, 2005

IIRC, the last time this happened it wasn't a bandwidth issue at all, but rather the failure of something called "resin" in the server.
posted by the_bone at 5:29 AM on May 15, 2005

Resin, resin, resin, resin. Jrun! Jrun!
Resin, resin, resin, resin. (s)quid!
posted by fish tick at 5:53 AM on May 15, 2005

Boy, am I glad to hear from you, tracicle. Now don't ever let this happen again!
posted by languagehat at 6:25 AM on May 15, 2005

well , you know , what with them being our buddies and all i thought they deserved a wee bit of space but its all academic now anyway.
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:07 PM on May 15, 2005

I'm glad to hear it was something fairly trivial. Thank God for triviality!!
posted by codeofconduct at 3:08 PM on May 15, 2005

So that's why MoFi is so responsive - the server is local (to me). You have monkeys in Michigan, Tracicle. You know who to call if you need some heads knocked around in the server room.
posted by caution live frogs at 5:22 AM on May 16, 2005

I disagree. Triviality is killing our nation's children and turning previously law-abiding right-wing politicians into homosexual bondage queens that breath fire and have acid poo-poo.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 5:31 AM on May 16, 2005

Sounds like an improvement to me!
posted by codeofconduct at 9:16 AM on May 17, 2005