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phlegmboy

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#55961 11-Jan-2010 16:16

I have just tried accessing the Whale Oil blog website but am getting a 500 Internal Server Error. Is this due to a genuine server issue or has the website been stomped on by the courts?

I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long.

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#289000 11-Jan-2010 16:18

I think it has been hit pretty hard since he posted the name of latest person to get name suppression.

kiwitrc

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#289001 11-Jan-2010 16:19

Yeah I get a database access error. Trying to figure out the code he put on the site when I did get in.

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#289003 11-Jan-2010 16:22

I saw that and it is a silly move, coming from a person who's already in front of the courts on the same matters...

kiwitrc

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#289005 11-Jan-2010 16:26

Right I have decoded it now and it appears it was me?

nate

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#289057 11-Jan-2010 18:44

whaleoil: Sorry site down, crashed with server load, restarting shortly

SNicolle

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#289068 11-Jan-2010 19:22

google cache.. nuff said

JimmyLizar

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#289073 11-Jan-2010 19:37

I have decoded the headline as:

"I feel sorry for the others"

But I cannot work out how to decode the binary, all I get is a string of numbers

Can anybody help me?

.....c'mon sucker lick my battery........
binary solo...0000110000110000111...

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JimmyLizar

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#289076 11-Jan-2010 19:49

I worked it out..

binary to hex to text

.....c'mon sucker lick my battery........
binary solo...0000110000110000111...

Whaleoil

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#289125 12-Jan-2010 00:41

The site is back up. I have heard from my tech support that apparently the traffic took out a Mosso cluster, whatever that means, so they shut it down.

They didn't bother to contact me though, or my provider so there will be compensation coming.

Cheers

Whaleoil

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#289138 12-Jan-2010 07:53

You took out an entire Rackspace Cloud cluster? That must have been a hell of a traffic spike!

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#289148 12-Jan-2010 08:40

He only had 25k pageviews for the day, must be exceptionally poor hosting infrastructure.

Whaleoil

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#289149 12-Jan-2010 08:42

Duh it was offline for 6 hours.

It is at Rackspace and yes it should have coped, my point exactly

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#289155 12-Jan-2010 08:56

Interesting to see he's also changed his post from yesterday.

ScottStevensNZ

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#289158 12-Jan-2010 09:12

Whaleoil: Duh it was offline for 6 hours.

It is at Rackspace and yes it should have coped, my point exactly

I'm a load and performance tester :) You'd need to get a copy of the logs and the traffic profiles to see what it was that made the site fall over - I love my job.

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Whaleoil

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#289159 12-Jan-2010 09:14

Yeah working on that. Should get them today. i'll forward them to ya if ya want

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