System back online
quintin3265 · February 13, 2013 at 03:07 UTC
On Sunday night, the site went into a state where it froze for several hours. The cause was a combination of an unlikely circumstance (someone happening to access the site while songs were being converted to MP3 format) and a bug in 5ite's server control panel. Their control panel showed that 0 out of 0 bytes memory was in use, so I had to submit a ticket to them to figure out what was wrong with their control panel.
Had this issue happened on a Saturday morning, it would likely have been fixed immediately. Unfortunately, it happened at the worst possible time: about an hour after I went to bed on a Sunday night. I wasn't even aware of it until I woke up, didn't have access to the Internet to address it until I got home from work, and generally only have an hour a day on the weekdays to do anything other than work, exercise, eat, and sleep.
Everything should be back online now. I apologize for the inconvenience. Feel free to report anything that might still be broken in this thread.
Had this issue happened on a Saturday morning, it would likely have been fixed immediately. Unfortunately, it happened at the worst possible time: about an hour after I went to bed on a Sunday night. I wasn't even aware of it until I woke up, didn't have access to the Internet to address it until I got home from work, and generally only have an hour a day on the weekdays to do anything other than work, exercise, eat, and sleep.
Everything should be back online now. I apologize for the inconvenience. Feel free to report anything that might still be broken in this thread.
