ATS member is online NOW, page 2

It keeps happening to me as well.

At first I thought this had something to do with my other post about someone attempting to hijack my account.

Glad I am not alone

Evil_Santa

posted on Dec, 5 2012 @ 09:06 AM

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As one poster already stated - that the issue could be because the system has you as inactive when you haven't refreshed the page fast enough, so the next page you visit shows you as offline as the page is accessing outdated information from the database.

Another possibility (and one that seems likely with the recent outtages of the site) is that there's an issue with the replication of data across their cluster of database servers.

To explain this in more detail, large sites will use multiple servers to serve up data/pages to the site's visitors. There are multiple reasons that sites use clusters: redundancy in-case one server goes down, and to balance the site's traffic across multiple servers for optimal performance. Depending on how their load-balancing is configured (fail-over, round-robin, etc) determine how information is distributed to each connection, and because the information has to be copied to every server in a cluster, there is always a chance that the page you're loading is pulling data from a database that hasn't had your online status updated from the database server that handled your login.

GezinhoKiko

posted on Dec, 5 2012 @ 09:35 AM

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Originally posted by OneisOne
reply to post by GezinhoKiko

Yep.

SO posted on this thread:
ATS just went down in Western Australia for 30+mins

thank you OneisOne