What's up with the downtime?

July 12, 2006 4:00 AM

Any explanation for why Me* seems to be dying overnight again?
posted by antifuse to Uptime at 4:00 AM (25 comments total)

I wants me some morning MeFi goodness, but it seems as though every day when I get into work (~8:30 GMT) all of the Me* sites are dead.
posted by antifuse at 4:01 AM on July 12, 2006

Seconded - there seem to be frequent, though normally short outages between 0800 GMT and 1300hrs. Screws up us Europeans it does! This has been going on for a week or so now, maybe longer.
posted by adamvasco at 4:15 AM on July 12, 2006

Same here, not easy to be in Europe.
posted by keijo at 5:08 AM on July 12, 2006

*sob* I've been very productive in the mornings this week!
posted by altolinguistic at 6:25 AM on July 12, 2006

Mathowie is secretly undermining the US economy by insuring that you europeans beat us in productivity, despite your lax 35 hour work week and afternoon siesta lifestyles. I can only assume that this is because he's padded his retirement savings with international funds, and he wants to keep you guys working, and that his goals aren't to ruin our economy, but I think I'm going to call Homeland Security on him, the goddamned econo-terrorist, just to be on the safe side!
posted by crunchland at 7:00 AM on July 12, 2006

So I can blame Mathowie for the terrible exchange rate? He's really putting a pinch on my European vacation dreams, you know...
posted by empyrean at 7:24 AM on July 12, 2006

You whinging Euro-wimps would all be speaking Plastic if it wasn't for us Americans.
posted by bardic at 7:51 AM on July 12, 2006 [1 favorite]

bardic wins.
posted by Ryvar at 8:19 AM on July 12, 2006

Duh. When we Americans are sleeping, they turn off the servers. You'll just have to wait until the important members wake up.
posted by Gamblor at 8:37 AM on July 12, 2006

Antifuse, when they're not being used as a footnote designator, I read asterisks as shorthand for "asshole", so your questions comes across as "Any explanation for why Me asshole seems to be dying overnight again". Which is a pretty strange question for the grey, so I'm flagging it. Metafilter is not responsible for your asshole's mortality.
posted by jonson at 8:52 AM on July 12, 2006

I'm sure you're used to seeing the word "asshole" everywhere, jonson.
posted by crunchland at 9:31 AM on July 12, 2006

Crunchland, I'll have you know that I spend a good 45 hours a week at the office! Like right now. At work. Working with work. Veritably doing work. So much work, I don't know what to do with it all.

So don't talk to me about your fancy siestas.
posted by slimepuppy at 9:44 AM on July 12, 2006

Well, that's just how Matthowie wants it! Thanks for playing right into his scheme, you tool.
posted by crunchland at 9:45 AM on July 12, 2006

Gamblor : "You'll just have to wait until the important members wake up."

You're talking about the cabal, aren't you?
posted by graventy at 9:47 AM on July 12, 2006

The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, mathowie, jessamyn, quonsar's pissing elephant, AND Colonel Sanders (before he went tits up).
posted by Gamblor at 11:12 AM on July 12, 2006

So I can blame Mathowie for the terrible exchange rate? He's really putting a pinch on my European vacation dreams, you know...

and conversely, Matt can be thanked for my monster spending spree in NYC a couple of years ago...
posted by altolinguistic at 11:36 AM on July 12, 2006

"You're talking about the cabal, aren't you?"

If I may, to skip ahead: Is there not being a cabal something I would need to be in the cabal to know about?
posted by Eideteker at 12:09 PM on July 12, 2006

I'm sure you're used to seeing the word "asshole" everywhere, jonson.


sigh... grouchland, did you just take an unsolicited & totally pre-emptive shot at me? After I brainstormed that awesome new nick for you last week @ no charge? Sheesh. Some people.
posted by jonson at 12:54 PM on July 12, 2006

Yeah, it was a cheap shot, jonson*. I just couldn't resist.
posted by crunchland at 2:22 PM on July 12, 2006

[scrolls down page, looks for footnote] HEY!
posted by jonson at 3:32 PM on July 12, 2006

I'll try something my mother once said:

IF I CAN LOVE THE BOTH OF YOU THEN YOU CAN LOVE EACH OTHER. NOW. RIGHT NOW. HUG. OR BURN!
posted by Ryvar at 4:24 PM on July 12, 2006

Well, that explains the severe burn scars over 99% of Ryvar's body.
posted by loquacious at 4:35 PM on July 12, 2006

posted by loquacious at 4:39 PM on July 12, 2006

^ ha!
posted by nadawi at 10:13 AM on July 13, 2006

nadawi, you seem to have intended to link to wikipedia, but have forgotten the link. Please repair in the interest of the cabal^{^}.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:51 PM on July 13, 2006