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Originally posted by Simcut I'm sorry but entries dont get in themselves, mods and editors make a huge effort too, and not forgetting the guy that runs it all and hosts it... I have every right to get bitchy about it, when some cock threatens not to pay membership cause of a temporary problem for a few days, where as 99.9% of the rest of the time it runs fine.... fucking annoying.

I can see your point, but still when people don't get what they pay for, at least they should get a discount compensating them for the downtime. I'm not saying that the owner or the mods are doing a bad job, but that's what the paying users are entitled to.

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rofl, you crack me up, every subscription service has downtime, do you see them refunding too? no.

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How can sound exist if there's no one there to hear it?

i hope he better fix it. it seems the site is down but it's better that way than being arse slow. and unlike some like you simcut there are ones like me that can't live without it and i made up my mind now for paying premiership since it's only costing 120£ for 12months

anyone know how long Discogs will be messed up for?

Speed is not even worth visiting the site...too slow.

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Bring back 1994 NYC clubbing nights, cus the sh*t today is filled with junk parties and DJs that play sh*t House.....Zabiela, Sander, or Howells and all the rest suck and couldnt throw a night like it was in the early 90s in NYC!!!...Screw Twilo - give me Limelight circa 1993!!!

Message from Discogs tech support:

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the support, still limping along here running on one tempremental web server, the other one is down and out.

This is the technical reasons for the problems:

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Three problems happened all at the same time.

1) Our SSH gateway server has a hardware problem which prevented us from getting into the other servers. That server is back up for now. We realize this is a single point of failure for getting into the servers and are working on getting a second SSH gateway set up.

2) We use a program called "monit" to supervise the apache process and restart it when it dies (which happens frequently because of high traffic). On the first webserver monit's logfile reached linux's 2gig file limit so it could not run anymore. And because of problem #1 we couldn't get in to diagnose the problem and remove that logfile. We didn't realize that monit's logfile could get so big and will now be compressing it or deleting it on a regular basis.

3) The second webserver has a hardware problem and we are working to get it replaced.

So for now we are running on only one webserver and that is why the site is slow. We have 4 new webservers and some additional hardware on order and all of it will be installed in mid-to-late July. Will also make a few changes to the network setup so that in the future we can prevent or at least handle problems like this faster.

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It may be another week before full system functionality returns to Discogs... this is the lull before the storm of having 4 brand new webservers and yet more improvements to the site!

Nik

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thanks Nik for posting that...much apreciated

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Bring back 1994 NYC clubbing nights, cus the sh*t today is filled with junk parties and DJs that play sh*t House.....Zabiela, Sander, or Howells and all the rest suck and couldnt throw a night like it was in the early 90s in NYC!!!...Screw Twilo - give me Limelight circa 1993!!!

Thanks for the update...

Thanks.

Is there a way to donate to discogs through paypal? I want to help a little bit by donating a bit of cash.

You can do it on the site. I'm a registered subscriber. Believe it costs €12 per year. Not that much

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^yes... become a "premier" member... no google ads

It is soooo bleeding slow, it's pretty much down here.