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Hawktalon wrote:I'm getting this irritating popup ad advertising this "Hostinger" product whenever I visit the regular site. Is anyone else seeing this?

Yes. I don't know why it's doing it, it shouldn't. I haven't found a way to get rid of it yet, though.

I am currently looking for another host, most likely with a dedicated domain and stuff so that more people would have access to the IFN and code tools without their ISP blocking the connection and without annoying ads and without cpu limits and stuff. I will also be doing some renovations on the IFN when I move it, mainly making it faster and more optimised code-wise.

I don't know the detailed schedule for the move yet but it should be done before summer.

Glad to know I'm not just going crazy and seeing things (the popup!)

Good luck on the move Rosehill... hopefully you'll find a good host.

VERY MUCH GOOD LUCK on the move.. and hopefully to a server that BellSouth/AT&T doesn't block.

Well just got bandwidth exceeded - expected it before now lol

I'm not sure the thing that's supposed to remove hatchlings from the 'to hatchling' section is working. Yesterday and today I had to remove a bunch a by hand. (and there's still some there but I don't have time to remove them right now)
And I even found an ADULT in the 'to hatchling' section.

edit(6:14pm): I just refreshed the 'to hatchling' section, almost 20minutes later and the ones I saw when I left for dinner are still there, plus new ones that hatched sometime in that time period

edit2: Just removed almost 100 hatchlings(98 to be exact, not counting the number I removed yesterday which was probably over 100) from the 'to hatchling only' section, 90% of which where when I left for dinner over 20 minutes ago.
I know you've said the, thing that searches out and removes them does so in clumps, but when not one of them was removed in nearly 20 minutes, and there was even an adult in the section that's only supposed to take them to hatchling, I feel like something isn't working properly.

There have been no changes to the cleaning scripts or timers so they work like they've always worked. Checking the logs at 2014-04-14 3:15 PM EDT I see that there have been over 800 creatures in the to-hatchling-only service at that time, which would explain what you've noticed, as the script doesn't go through them all in one go.

I've opened up the script logic earlier already but I don't remember if I opened up the cleaning times etc. so I'll elaborate again:

There are two different cleaning scripts dedicated to just removing hatchlings from the to-hatchling-only.
First script runs every ten minutes (xx:00, xx:10, xx:20, xx:30, xx:40, xx:50). This script always checks the oldest (by time of addition) 150 creatures on the to-hatchling-only and removes all that are not live eggs.

Second script runs every 15 minutes (xx:00, xx:15, xx:30, xx:45). This script first counts how many creatures are in the to-hatchling-only section. It then generates a random number between 1 and the counted amount -150. Then it checks 150 creatures (in the order of addition) starting from the number it generated.

The second script keeps no log for itself about which creatures it has checked and generates the starting point again every time the script runs. It's completely possible that the script generates the starting points for consecutive runs in e.g. "30", "31", "35". If that were to happen then the "31" and "35" runs wouldn't necessarily clean anything since the "30" run had already gone through most of the same creatures.


If there are less than 150 creatures in the to-hatchling-only service then the both cleaning scripts check each and every one of them every time the scripts run. The more there are creatures the slower the removing seems to be. In 20 minutes the most amount of scripts to run would be a total of 4: two that check the first 150 and two that check a random bunch of 150. If there are way over 800 creatures then the two "random 150" scripts might hit a point where no creatures were removed.

Edit: Here are hatchling removal logs from around the time frame of your post:
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 17:30:03 EDT Removed: 28
Autoremove HATCHLINGS random 150 2014-04-14 17:30:03 EDT Starting point: 361 Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 17:40:02 EDT Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS random 150 2014-04-14 17:45:02 EDT Starting point: 26 Removed: 3
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 17:50:03 EDT Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 18:10:04 EDT Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS random 150 2014-04-14 18:15:03 EDT Starting point: 391 Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 18:20:03 EDT Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 18:30:04 EDT Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS random 150 2014-04-14 18:30:04 EDT Starting point: 551 Removed: 0
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 18:40:02 EDT Removed: 22
Autoremove HATCHLINGS random 150 2014-04-14 18:45:02 EDT Starting point: 180 Removed: 1
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 18:50:04 EDT Removed: 5
Autoremove HATCHLINGS First 150 2014-04-14 19:00:03 EDT Removed: 1
Autoremove HATCHLINGS random 150 2014-04-14 19:00:03 EDT Starting point: 189 Removed: 0

OK, so it's not just a freak incident with the hatchery, then?

MightyOak wrote:

CPU Limit Reached

You are seeing this page because website has reached CPU usage limit of the server, and it was temporarily disabled.

It happens every now and then, usually during events when people use the IFN a lot. Normally, it resets around 11pm-midnight EST and comes back online.

I like to say that the IFN is tired and is taking a nap.

Hello all!

I have some good news!

The .tk addresses are working again!

- You can now access the Image Free Nursery at the good old .tk address: http://mshatchery.tk

- You can now access the Code Tools at the good old .tk address: http://mscodetools.tk


I still intend to change hosts within a shortish time period but more on that later.