I've been getting a few reports about issues with torrents and the feeds in general. While I do not always respond to your e-mails, I do investigate the issues reported. As you may know, Mininova is having major issues, which may prevent you from downloading your torrents. This is not in my control.

It also appears that EZTV and VTV are experimenting with URLs. A few of them are not direct links to torrents, which basically makes it impossible to download automatically. I'm looking into this as well.

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I just became aware of some unexpected downtime. I found out that the server that tvRSS is on was completely powered off. I am not aware of any particular reason this could happen (aside from typing halt in a terminal, or something), but I didn't do that.

I will be investigating hardware and/or software failures that would cause this to happen.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Some users reported some issues with the EZTV. They have been resolved.

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I am receiving reports that tvRSS is not responding for some people.

This is unfortunately not in my control. Yes there was a short period of downtime as I previously mentioned, but all of that was done successfully and is not related to the current issue.

There appears to be a "routing issue" which is preventing some users from connecting. This is likely in the hands of tvRSS's upstream bandwidth provider, Cogent.

Feel free to read more in the usenet group rec.arts.tv

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tvRSS will be down for a few hours in the afternoon this Saturday (17-Jul-2008) (Pacific Time) as the server will be rebuilt. You will not be able to access tvRSS during this time.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

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To avoid issues with spam, I have decided to delete some old and outstanding forum user accounts.

These were accounts that either had not been activated (through e-mail) or were registered last year and had zero posts associated.

Either way, if you want an account, please feel free to register but don't forget to activate it. :)

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I was taking a look at the bandwidth graphs the other day and noticed an unusually large amount of traffic coming out of the server. After looking into it further, I've determined that many people are refreshing the same feed over and over again. Instead of limiting retardedly programmed clients, I implemented the following change that should leave no one in the dark.

Effective immediately, the fastest you will be allowed to refresh a feed is 5 minutes. After doing some statistics on the TV show data, the prime-time average time between releases is 15 minutes. So this is very generous.

Here's some interesting data that I pulled from the logs (normally I don't log):

  16086 82.208.x.x
  20828 82.165.x.x
  21965 76.252.x.x
  24211 65.214.x.x
  24878 76.247.x.x
  28262 78.86.x.x
  29188 218.186.x.x
  34564 81.231.x.x
  37378 209.85.x.x
  97263 70.187.x.x
 257906 69.225.x.x

The first number being the number of hits per day. The last entry is the most amusing.

So, if you see a bunch of entries that say "You are refreshing this feed too fast. Please adjust your client's settings." in your RSS program, you probably need to adjust your client's settings.

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So with the recent press about tvRSS and some major torrent repositories going down, I've noticed higher than usual traffic on the server. The server load is still around (usually less than) 1, which implies there is very much room to grow. The problem I have is with configurations.

Lately I've been experimenting with Lighttpd and how it dispatches FastCGI processes to PHP. Unfortunately this is not so straight forward. Some users were reporting receiving HTTP error 500 and according to the error log it was due to there not being enough FastCGI processes to cope with the amount of requests. I think I resolved that issue. The next thing is MySQL. I was concerned that the default configuration would not handle this amount of requests either, so I specified max-connections to 2000 (just some arbitrary number I made up). Then, yesterday, I had problems with MySQL. Right now there is no max-connections specified in MySQL and I know there aren't 2000 connections going on, so something is a little odd.

I'll do my best to resolve the problems in a timely manner, but if you do see some weird error, try again in a few seconds and please try to contact me to let me know.

Thanks!

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It was just brought to my attention that this website was recently featured on the tech-geek news outlet Slashdot.

No changes have been made to this website as a result of any higher than usual traffic. I'm fairly confident that the website will handle this "surge" of traffic well -- it's very light on the server. Please make yourselves at home.

If you have some questions regarding this site, and what it's all about, please feel free to contact me. Also check the forums as your question may have already been answered.

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If you're reading this, the IP address change was completed successfully and your DNS records have automatically updated. Please stay tuned, as always, for future updates.

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