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AfterDawn US server problems fixed

One of the AfterDawn.com servers had connectivity problems during the weekend, which caused problems for our North American users. Users in other regions could have been affected as well.

The problems were caused by a combination of abnormal network latency and cache frontend server configuration. There also was another problem that caused occasional "Oops, there has been an error" -messages when no error actually occured. This was also caused by an overly optimistic default setting in the version of Varnish Cache we were using. The setting has now been fixed along with an upgrade of Varnish.



We are deeply sorry about the inconvenience the problems have caused, and hope that they are now behind us.

Should you encounter problems accessing or using our site, please don't hesitate to contact me directly via email at firstname.lastname@afterdawn.com or via Twitter at @ketola or @afterdawn.

Reference:
https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1012


Written by: Jari Ketola @ 7 Nov 2011 16:37

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• 18 comments

• xaznboitx

  not fixed still.... I was having issues getting the page to load few mins ago.

  7.11.2011 17:57 #1

• Mrguss

  I download Firefox 8 from this site yesterday, but do not work. So I downgrade to Firefox 7.
  After I re-instal the aol toolbar I found the Afterdawn Icon, Thx.
  

  +4000

  7.11.2011 20:17 #2

• Hyasuma

  welcome back!
  

  7.11.2011 22:07 #3

• CarpeSol

  I was wondering what the deal was with that.
  

  7.11.2011 22:38 #4

• KillerBug

  I had to use a proxy to get on yesterday...but that happens all the time with this site.
  

  
  

  7.11.2011 22:47 #5

• ddp

  no problems for me & i'm in canada.
  

  7.11.2011 23:13 #6

• aldan

  had a couple of failed logins yesterday.good so far today.canada here too.
  

  7.11.2011 23:28 #7

• xboxdvl2

  had couple of porblems with site last 2 days but working fine now.im in australia.
  

  R.I.P. mr 1990 ford falcon.got myself a 1993 toyota corolla seems to run good.computers still going good.

  8.11.2011 02:02 #8

• JOHNSTARR

  How do I get rid of this annoying banner that pops up covering the bottom post? I've had this issue for a month... Running firefox 7
  
  thanks
  

  No time for Leap frog!!!

  8.11.2011 02:53 #9

• Ketola

  Originally posted by JOHNSTARR: How do I get rid of this annoying banner that pops up covering the bottom post? I've had this issue for a month... Running firefox 7 Could you please post a screenshot of the banner when the problem occurs. I will take a look at the issue and forward it to our ad sales.
  
  Thanks!
  
  

  Jari Ketola
  Administrator
  http://www.AfterDawn.com

  8.11.2011 03:10 #10

• xboxdvl2

  Originally posted by Ketola: Originally posted by JOHNSTARR: How do I get rid of this annoying banner that pops up covering the bottom post? I've had this issue for a month... Running firefox 7 Could you please post a screenshot of the banner when the problem occurs. I will take a look at the issue and forward it to our ad sales.
  
  Thanks!
  ive had the issue for ages aswell.screenshot and problem was posted 23september and never got fixed.link
  

  R.I.P. mr 1990 ford falcon.got myself a 1993 toyota corolla seems to run good.computers still going good.

  8.11.2011 05:26 #11

• Ketola

  Originally posted by xboxdvl2: ive had the issue for ages aswell.screenshot and problem was posted 23september and never got fixed.link Thank you very much. Don't know how that thread has gone unnoticed all this time!
  
  Looking into the issue.
  

  Jari Ketola
  Administrator
  http://www.AfterDawn.com

  8.11.2011 06:30 #12

• JOHNSTARR

  
  
  
  Snapshot for Ketola
  

  No time for Leap frog!!!

  8.11.2011 06:36 #13

• Ketola

  Originally posted by JOHNSTARR:
  
  
  Snapshot for Ketola Well I'd say that's rather annoying, yes..
  

  Jari Ketola
  Administrator
  http://www.AfterDawn.com

  8.11.2011 07:15 #14

• Ketola

  Update
  
  The problem has been located by the ad management team and it should now be fixed.
  
  We are sorry about the annoyance caused.
  

  Jari Ketola
  Administrator
  http://www.AfterDawn.com

  9.11.2011 01:14 #15

• KillerBug

  Originally posted by Ketola: Update
  
  The problem has been located by the ad management team and it should now be fixed.
  
  We are sorry about the annoyance caused. I love AdBlock+
  

  
  

  9.11.2011 05:56 #16

• JOHNSTARR

  Originally posted by Ketola: Update
  
  The problem has been located by the ad management team and it should now be fixed.
  
  We are sorry about the annoyance caused.
  Nice :) I guess I posted the issue in the right place
  
  -thanks
  

  No time for Leap frog!!!

  9.11.2011 06:02 #17

• JOHNSTARR

  @ Ketola
  
  This same issue started back up about a week ago.
  

  No time for Leap frog!!!

  19.11.2011 04:42 #18