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29 March 2007

Is it just me or is JRun going down more often than Sad Kermit in the video for Hurt?

post by: grouse at: 06:45 | 25 comments

Yep. JRun is back.

posted by birdherder 29 March | 06:51

yep. seeing it here too.

posted by terrapin 29 March | 06:56

Here, too.

posted by Prospero 29 March | 07:03

Ditto, heehee.

posted by box 29 March | 07:05

Didn't Matt say he was getting upgraded to new servers or something? Either that, or new features maybe? Mefi seems to give servers the JRuns for awhile until everything settles down.

posted by muddgirl 29 March | 07:05

The servers were upgraded/moved a few days or so ago. He has a thread open in Meta to report buggs, so I am pretty sure this is unexpected even by matt.

posted by terrapin 29 March | 07:27

A few hours ago I was able to access AskMe and MeTa but not the blue. Got the fancy new Flickr-esque "Massage" error page. Post to status blog said he was doing some maintenance, but that was hours ago.

posted by Brittanie 29 March | 07:36

Eponysterical ;p

posted by iconomy 29 March | 07:59

What an original joke!!!1111

posted by grouse 29 March | 08:02

Gah, am I going to have to WORK today? WHAT. THE. etc.

posted by mygothlaundry 29 March | 08:21

For $35 a month, I expect better service.

posted by Brandon Blatcher 29 March | 08:22

I managed to get a few MeFi pages loaded, but the JRuns are definitely back. (Were they ever gone???)

posted by deadcowdan 29 March | 08:23

The JRun is comfortably familiar, but I wish the server would mix it up a little once in awhile. How about an "Unknown entry event," like in Sphere?

posted by steef 29 March | 08:26

From last week's MetaFilter podcast:

It'll be a great test. If everything isn't awesome, then it's totally my fault... There's so much capacity now, that if things aren't, like, amazing, if they keep dying, you know or whatever, being slow, it's totally my code that'll be at fault. Which is good to know.

Ruh-roh, Shaggy.

I kid because I love.

posted by chrismear 29 March | 08:56

They were gone for a while. When the site crashed you didn't get anything. Now they're back.

posted by grouse 29 March | 09:11

I'm confused. Why on earth is JRun back on the scene? Matt switched to Apache a while ago (and things vastly improved). Switching from Apache back to JRun makes no sense, since Apache actually works and JRun isn't, I think, recommended even by Macromedia for use in production. Matt works in mysterious ways.

posted by matthewr 29 March | 09:47

I *think* Apache is running as the webserver, but JRun still provides the interface to the database.

posted by danostuporstar 29 March | 09:55

I never said I was original.

posted by iconomy 29 March | 09:57

Yeah, danostuporstar, that makes sense.

Hmm, I may have been talking nonsense when I said Macromedia doesn't recommend Jrun for production. Though I'm sure I read somewhere that JRun for Coldfusion is intended to be a development-only server, like WEBrick is on Rails.

posted by matthewr 29 March | 10:07

As I understand it, even when the webserver was switched from IIS to Apache, it was still just Apache fronting the JRun. Apache has no inherent ability to run J2EE apps.

posted by chrismear 29 March | 10:20

And according to these system requirements (see 'Supported Application Servers'), you have to choose between JRun, WebLogic, WebSphere or Oracle Application Server. None of the gratis open-source options are officially supported. So if MetaFilter's already paid for a JRun license, it's probably as good as any to stick with.

posted by chrismear 29 March | 10:31

See Jrun!

Run, Jrun.

Please run, Jrun.

posted by Miko 29 March | 12:06

JRun for Coldfusion is intended to be a development-only server

In all fairness, Matt does do his development on the live site.

posted by danostuporstar 29 March | 13:21

And. . . it's down again. Sheesh.

posted by mygothlaundry 29 March | 14:46

The feelter, she is down.

posted by signal 29 March | 15:06

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