Market Comments--Open Thread 6-12-09

Feel free to offer any thoughts or to document any trades in replies to this blog post.

Hacked

We've been hacked and are in the process of improving our security, applying patches, and figuring out exactly what happened.

It will take us a bit to get this cleaned up.

Some of us are able to post and read and others aren't. Rest assured, we're on it.

If you have any questions, or if you'd like a topic started here on the blog during whatever "partially down time" we're having, just contact us at admin at Traders-Talk dot com.

Mark Young and the Traders-Talk Admin Team

Site Move Update

We've been moving to the new server officially since last night.

If you're getting funny error messages, don't worry. We're still up and we're still moving. It appears that everything is propagating on pace.

We'll advise if there are any problems or if we get an eta.

Mark

Up Again

We're up again, and working on the problem. Things aren't 100%, but we hope to get them that way this morning.

Basically, we're dealing with one of those situations where something small went wrong and unnoticed, slowly getting worse, causing other problems as it went, and being compounded by a small mistake on our part and when those problems came to our attention the attempt to fix them brought on worse even as we thought we'd fixed it.

Tech has been unraveling the Gordian knot for a while. I suspect that we (i.e. the smart members of this team, not me) will fix this fully by lunch.

We'll advise if not.

M

Intermittent Outage

TT is down. We thought it was just a minor glitch but it's not.

Our tech has been on it, but we've been out and incommunicado. Apologies on that.

We'll get on it tomorrow first thing.

It figures we'd have this problem when we tried to sneak a Saturday away from the computer and work.

I'll advise as soon as we know more.

Mark

Again--Huge Server Load

We've been getting record usage during this market move. The site is staggering under the load.

This is after lots of tweaking and improvements in performance. If this traffic holds past the current crisis we will be upgrading our servers, you may rest assured.

For now, don't use search during market hours and don't compulsively refresh.

If you must search, use google, and search for the poster or any key words, and Traders-talk.com

Thanks,
Mark

Site Is Staggering

...under the serious traffic load. We've turned search off and as soon as cached searches age off, we should get some speed back. Right now we are unable to connect but this ought to ameliorate fairly quickly. Give us a bit of time and we should be running again.

Do not try searches during busy market hours. Don't compulsively refresh, if you can help it.

Thanks,

Mark