Sorry about the outage, apparently there was a spike in the usage yesterday afternoon which was compromising the service to the paying customers of the server (we get it for free at present!) and Sotawatch had to be removed from service. On its return to service it took time to propagate through the net but it is working for me now and I hope anybody not able to log on will be back with us soon.
Clearly SOTA is the victim of its own success - equally clearly, we really miss the site when its down!
Is it known what specific activity was contributing most to the overload? (…and is there anything we, as users, can do to help avoid another such occurrence?)
I think there will be a more detailed statement in due course. Right now we need to let Jon GM4ZFZ take a breather after having to do some unplanned work getting things running again and let him get on with his day job.
In reply to MM0FMF:
Hi Andy
Things not quite back to normal yet. When I look in the summit list at an individual summit that has been activated it says this summit still to be activated! Also does not flag up the summits I have done on the summit list as per normal. Not sure if you have seen this and are sorting or not!
In reply to G8ADD:
(we get it for free at present!) Clearly SOTA is the victim of its own success
With the continued growth and popularity of SOTA, and the new facilities available from the website, is it perhaps time to have a formal subscription to pay for the website?
With respect, this should be the very last solution and could stop the growth of SOTA here. The hikers are often younger ones who have families etc… already too many bills to pay. I myself not sure I would pay. Gotta be another way.
I would not be against small adds on SOTAwatch. Small means small. Please, try not to take the easy solutions.
The MT will debate any suggestion unless it is obviously wacky, and in keeping an eye on finances and future needs we are doing our job, but as far as I can see the members of the MT like things the way they are and would only change things if we were absolutely forced to.
On its return to service it took time
to propagate through the net but it is working for me now and I hope
anybody not able to log on will be back with us soon.
Clearly SOTA is the victim of its own success - equally clearly, we
really miss the site when its down!
Dont see any change yet -Total Activations: None yet!
Whats the big mystery?
Why not a message saying “Malfunction at present”
This would save even further overuse of the system by those who draft messages reporting the fact as a result of their not having time to search reflector for submissions several days ago.