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Hi all,
I am putting this on hold for now, as it has been claimed that my program took down the site.

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I am incredibly sorry to all of you, Michael and Jon included, if this is indeed the case.

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I have reasons to believe that it is not the case, as I explain in the comment below (will be posted shortly).

Be 2) as it may, if I am wrong about this, my apology stands.

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"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry

Nice work!
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Nice work!

Is this related?
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Letter on PL by M. Nystrum

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P O P U L A R - L I B E R T Y

December 24, 2015

Hey friends, Merry Christmas!

I woke up this morning to find an email from Jon that read:

So...update:

Someone posted a program for people to download & archive the site themselves, by requesting pages they want directly. They even stated "you're going to have to wait, this slows things down..." Multiply this by a few people and there are hundreds of heavy requests a second, causing all issues being logged on the server.

That's happened, and it filled up the disk with error messages, basically. I can't even get in.

I thought a simple fix would involve restarting to get a connection in and clear up the disk, or enlarge the disk, but neither of those worked, and it's not up now...

I'm sorry the site is effectively down. Maybe you'd want to point it somewhere else for the time being.

Well, to quote a famous internet meme, this is why we can't have nice things. Ha ha ha.

We'll try to get the archive back up, or at least that page of new projects that everyone is working on, sometime after the Christmas break.

If you want to be notified, enter your email here, or just check back.

Sorry this happened, but well, things happen.

Merry Christmas everyone and thank you for everything! I'll be off now to enjoy a nice glass of egg nog...

Michael Nystrom
 

M E R R Y - C H R I S T M A S !

Seems to be in line with the
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Seems to be in line with the error messages that I saw.  One error message stated error 28 from the database, which means it's a space issue.  Other error message stated that the watchdog table was full.  Watchdog is a logging feature of drupal to help website admins see what's going on with their site.  So, seems that it could definitely be related.

On another note, I wonder if the server hard drive or database hard drive partition was already close to being full with maybe enough space to get the site through Dec 31st... but this issue pushed it to the limit sooner than expected.

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you nailed it

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant

I tried the link for Windows users
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and got a 404 message. It was cute, but I would appreciate a working link.  :)

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” ~~ Sam Adams

lol enemy!
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Don't take it too heavy if it was indirectly your fault, personally, I think the NSA had something to do with it.

 

Sounds like a lot of people used your program, congrat's on that!

 

and welcome to here

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I had 10 total downloads, outside of my own downloads onto test platforms....

Thanks for your support, though, if it was my fault I will be red-faced and very apologetic.

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry