Comments on: Mint Seems To Be Broken http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken My random mumblings about web development and PC hardware. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jason http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-107 Jason Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:52:37 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-107 Lol, I did that once. I downloaded and enabled K2 but forgot to add the mint script. There were like 2 hits that day. Then I realized, "Oh, duh, I forgot the Mint script!" Annoying. :p Lol, I did that once. I downloaded and enabled K2 but forgot to add the mint script. There were like 2 hits that day. Then I realized, “Oh, duh, I forgot the Mint script!” Annoying. :p

]]> By: David http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-55 David Thu, 03 Nov 2005 01:24:17 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-55 Well the site went down yesterday, that wasn't pleasing, starting to seem like the old host. However, I sent an inquiring email to Dreamhost: <blockquote>I just tried to check my site and it is down (www.hddkillers.com), I can't access anything on it, I use Mint and Wordpress so I tried navigating to /wp-admin and /mint and neither of those loaded either. I tried pinging hddkillers.com and it resolved to an IP but I got no replies. I also checked the Dreamhost blog and it is still up, so is it a problem with the server my site is hosted on or something? And if so, how long will it last for?</blockquote> Unlike my last host though, I actually got a reply other than, "Sit down, shut up and be patient thou unworthy scum!" In fact what they actually said was this: <blockquote>Your site is up and running now. We had some abusive users that clogged our database servers. Our admins have taken action and removed the problem. We are sorry for any inconviences and appreciate your patience. Thanks! Glen</blockquote> So huzzah! They actually did something about it! Also, hopefully pages will load a bit faster now, since people aren't fisting the database server. Well the site went down yesterday, that wasn’t pleasing, starting to seem like the old host. However, I sent an inquiring email to Dreamhost:

I just tried to check my site and it is down (www.hddkillers.com), I can’t access anything on it, I use Mint and Wordpress so I tried navigating to /wp-admin and /mint and neither of those loaded either.

I tried pinging hddkillers.com and it resolved to an IP but I got no replies. I also checked the Dreamhost blog and it is still up, so is it a problem with the server my site is hosted on or something? And if so, how long will it last for?

Unlike my last host though, I actually got a reply other than, “Sit down, shut up and be patient thou unworthy scum!” In fact what they actually said was this:

Your site is up and running now. We had some abusive users that clogged our database servers. Our admins have taken action and removed the problem. We are sorry for any inconviences and appreciate your patience.

Thanks!

Glen

So huzzah! They actually did something about it! Also, hopefully pages will load a bit faster now, since people aren’t fisting the database server.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-50 Daniel Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:05:01 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-50 Maybe it's because Mint sucks. Maybe it’s because Mint sucks.

]]> By: David http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-49 David Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:24:11 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-49 Anyone can make mistakes. To be honest I'd completely forgotten about having to include that line again. Seeing as Wordpress designs are built on CSS based layouts, it shouldn't be necessary to change the markup just to change the looks of it anyway *<a href="http://www.csszengarden.com/">cough</a>*. Anyone can make mistakes. To be honest I’d completely forgotten about having to include that line again. Seeing as Wordpress designs are built on CSS based layouts, it shouldn’t be necessary to change the markup just to change the looks of it anyway *cough*.

]]> By: Ben Rogers http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-48 Ben Rogers Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:19:00 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-48 I SECOND that giggle. I SECOND that giggle.

]]> By: lilcrazyfuzzy http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-47 lilcrazyfuzzy Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:12:08 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-47 hehehehe! hehehehe!

]]> By: David http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-46 David Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:26:41 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-46 Alternatively I could just be fucking stupid and not have included this line in header.php for the new skin when I changed over: I completely forgot about that. Bugger. So I guess that Mint was broken, but it was my fault that it was broken. (Although I still think that Dreamhost are having a few probs with their database server.) Alternatively I could just be fucking stupid and not have included this line in header.php for the new skin when I changed over:

I completely forgot about that. Bugger. So I guess that Mint was broken, but it was my fault that it was broken.

(Although I still think that Dreamhost are having a few probs with their database server.)

]]> By: David http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-45 David Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:20:40 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-45 To be honest I don't think it's Mint. I got this email from my host last week: <blockquote> We have been experiencing an unusually heavy disk activity with your database server 'menchit', and we are unable to isolate the problem. The admins moved the server to new hardware. </blockquote> And then later that day: <blockquote> We have been monitoring the server activity, and everything looks fine now. The problem was evidently hardware related. </blockquote> To be honest I think that they're still having some problems with the database server and that it might not be hardware related. Sometimes pages are very slow to load and then, just seconds later, everything is fine again. To be honest I don’t think it’s Mint. I got this email from my host last week:

We have been experiencing an unusually heavy disk activity with your database server ‘menchit’, and we are unable to isolate the problem. The admins moved the server to new hardware.

And then later that day:

We have been monitoring the server activity, and everything looks fine now. The problem was evidently hardware related.

To be honest I think that they’re still having some problems with the database server and that it might not be hardware related. Sometimes pages are very slow to load and then, just seconds later, everything is fine again.

]]> By: lilcrazyfuzzy http://www.hddkillers.com/2005/10/mint-seems-to-be-broken#comment-44 lilcrazyfuzzy Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:02:09 +0000 http://www.hddkillers.com/?p=12#comment-44 haha, worth the 30 bucks? Maybe it's some hidden thing, stops working after a few weeks ;) haha, worth the 30 bucks?
Maybe it’s some hidden thing, stops working after a few weeks ;)

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