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• Things that make you go hmmm... (Score:3, Informative)

  by vek (2312) on 2002.04.17 13:18 (#7185) Journal

  Are others reaching 'Camelot Naturals' when attempting to go to perlbox.org or is it just me? The DNS I'm using must be somewhat confused methinks :-)

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  • Re:Things that make you go hmmm... (Score:1)

    by vsergu (505)

    I'm not getting any Camelot Naturals, but I'm not getting any real content either (just a blank page). I think the site is slashdotted and having some problems, though your DNS problems must be a separate issue.
    • Re:Things that make you go hmmm... (Score:1)

      by vek (2312)

      Hmm, now it's working (well, not working per se as I'm getting the blank page too). Still, I'm glad I'm not getting the bloody Camelot Naturals page anymore. I like my DNS again :-)
    • Re:Things that make you go hmmm... (Score:3, Informative)

      by chicks (2930)

      Naturally google has it cached here [google.com].
• It's still down (Score:1)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  Methinks the /. effect took down the server. It's still down as of 0700 CST.
• Not just down (Score:1)

  by ct (2477)

  Gone. The front page is blank, and all the subdirs you see listed on the google cache return 404. (And a Cobalt Raq 404 screen to boot).

  Oh Well.
  • Re:Not just down (Score:3, Informative)

    by chicks (2930)

    There is a sourceforge project [sourceforge.net] too.
• perlbox crashed hostgo! (Score:3, Informative)

  by scmason (3055) on 2002.04.21 4:00 (#7322)

  Hi, Sorry that the site was down, but it seems that perlbox.org received so many hits (10,000 unique ip's in 2 hours) that it kept crashing the raq it was on at hostgo.com. This was due to a tremendous response to an article posted on slashdot.com. I have moved the site to an rs6000 running SuSePPC at the lab where I work at the University of Montana. The site is up, and very capable of handling any traffic thrown at it.

  I am interested to see what the consensus here is, the conversation at slashdot degenerated into a "perl is too slow for that" and "you should spend your time on more productive tasks" and "java is better than perl" type thing.

  I would appreciate any feedback! Anyone who wants to contribute some time and coding, there is an interest out there in this project. It's moving like hotcakes! I have been averaging around 400 downloads a day for the last three days.

  scmason
  me@perlbox.org

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