CDN Outage

[Jon]

Some of you may have had difficulty in replying to messages today (including me!). Also, the logo and various user avatars were missing. I managed to trace it back to my CDN - the money had run out! So, I refunded the account and all is back to normal.

 

[GPGeorge]

I had a brief spell of wonky behavior, but I attributed it to the internet gremlins going through a shift change and not paying attention.

 

[Gasman]

Yes, working again now.
Thank you Jon.

BTW what is a CDN?

 

[Jon]

Content Delivery Network. Instead of having all the files on my host, I paid for an extra service which puts things like graphics files, JavaScript and so on with the CDN service. They have servers all over the world, like over a 100 of them. They have copies of these files duplicated on all their servers. That means that if you were in say Australia, the sending of this data to your browser is a shorter distance, and so speeds up the user experience. You can consider it similar to reducing the ping time.

All the data remains on the host.

 

[NauticalGent]

Thanks Jon, I couldn't even post a question about it so I used FB messenger to a couple of Mods to see if it was just me.

 

[Jon]

Thanks Jon, I couldn't even post a question about it so I used FB messenger to a couple of Mods to see if it was just me.

You're welcome. I had a panic on earlier because I thought the site had been hacked. With the logo gone, avatars and Reply issues, I was on to my host for assistance. Then I had a brainwave - it could be the CDN!

 

[Gasman]

What puzzled me was that moke123 managed to post on this thread

Placement of Quotes For DoCmd.RunSQL Statement

Are "Spiritual_Gift_Totals" and "Individual_Spiritual_Gift_Totals" similiar or exact copies of each other? Oh wow! I missed that there was a join going on. So normally the WHERE clause would equate fields from each table as equivalent to an ON clause. 😬 It gets more confusing by the second...

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and Ebs17 on this one, when I could not?

Question about best practice on overwriting records vs deleting records

Both an UPDATE and a combo of DELETE/INSERT have essentially the same effect in terms of bloat. Are you talking about individual field content or records? Is there verifiable evidence of bloat in updates? I have only heard this once in a long period of practice, in a case where short strings...

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all when I was unable to do so?

I was thinking it might be affecting just UK users as CJ_London had the same issue.

 

[Jon]

The files could still have been in the cache on the CDN's servers before being flushed.