Bluelight maintenance vs Atomic clocks

[steewith2ees]

offline for routine maintenance 08.00 -08.05 in the UK, every day, for over a year now.

I can set my watch to it

 

[Allein]

It';s always been that way, it used to be 7am before the upgrade. I believe it goes down to do a backup, I'd guess it could be avoided if the site was able to fund a mirror server or such but it's not exactly flush with cash

 

[foolsgold]

is that a hint that we should buy less drugs and sub blue light once in a while ?

 

[Allein]

is that a hint that we should buy less drugs and sub blue light once in a while ?

Certainly not, how very dare you

 

[Chatative]

I guess 8am is 00:00 PST.

I noticed it used to be 8:00am until 8:03am but it seems to keep going over to 8:05am recently. Rather handily just as I'm doing my morning mod check in. 8)

 

[steewith2ees]

the main thing is its being looked after every day, and if your inbetween reading / writing posts, its back on again before you even realise its off. pretty tight and efficient for any site really.

 

[BecomingJulie]

The more records in your database, the longer it takes to back it up. You can either take an ASCII dump, which takes longer; or copy the .frm, .MYD and .MYI files. That is much quicker BUT isn't guaranteed to work across different software versions / hardware architectures, which isn't so good in the case of an enforced server upgrade.

And the BL server probably gets its time from an atomic clock anyway, since there's a standard for doing that on the Internet. Even creationists set their watches by atomic clocks -- when they are not busy insisting that atomic decay rates cannot possibly be constant, otherwise the world would have to be more than 6000 years old.

 

[Sammy G]

Creationism isn't just an Abrahamic thing, y'know. An awful lot of Hindu creationists have clocks that wind billions or trillions of years back.

 

[steewith2ees]

The more records in your database, the longer it takes to back it up. You can either take an ASCII dump, which takes longer; or copy the .frm, .MYD and .MYI files. That is much quicker BUT isn't guaranteed to work across different software versions / hardware architectures, which isn't so good in the case of an enforced server upgrade.

And the BL server probably gets its time from an atomic clock anyway, since there's a standard for doing that on the Internet. Even creationists set their watches by atomic clocks -- when they are not busy insisting that atomic decay rates cannot possibly be constant, otherwise the world would have to be more than 6000 years old.

i fucking love this website. what was the point in all that school and university?

 

[swampdragon]

That'll be the regular uploading of our posts to FBI servers, won't it?

 

[kingme]

Every thing recorded, everything backed up, everyone judged. Kind of religious really