Grotto Website FTP

[Robert Sewell]

Are we still supposed to use grotto1.caves.org to update our NSS-hosted websites? That's what I'm using, and sometimes it take hours for changes to actually show up in the browser. Is there an ftp site that will directly update our site so changes show up instantly?

[vtdarrell]

Yes, you use grotto1.caves.org to update your particular grotto's pages (some other IOs are using grotto2.caves.org).

As for your updates taking hours... The main caves.org server updates content from the grotto servers every 10 minutes. The other piece to this puzzle may be your browser's cache.

If you continue to have problems, or want me to parse through the various synchronization logs to see when your updates are being moved over, please provide me with the particular grotto name and an approximate time frame. Please address problem reports to webmaster@caves.org.

Cheers,
Darrell Wells
NSS IT Chairman
NSS# 55359

[Jeff Bartlett]

As for your updates taking hours... The main caves.org server updates content from the grotto servers every 10 minutes. The other piece to this puzzle may be your browser's cache.

in fairness, i have had this issue as well - right now i am waiting for changes i uploaded an hour ago to take effect, even though i've confirmed with both Dreamweaver CS3 and WSFTP that the file currently hosted on grotto1.caves.org is the correct file.

i have cleared my browser cache and am using a CTRL-Click force refresh, to no avail. it's not a browser issue. it's a delay of some sort with the data needing to be transferred over.


i'm not sure if it's a periodic issue or not - just wanted to throw my hat in the ring as another webmaster who's noticed it. certainly i have bigger things to worry about!


edit: file is now visible, roughly 75 minutes after upload. however, it appears this may have been an isolated incident according to the PM i received. but it has happened a couple of times.

[vtdarrell]

Please send problem reports to webmaster@caves.org, including the "expected" URL and a description of the problem. I'd be happy to take a look, given a little more information.

[vtdarrell]

Before anyone has a chance to post...

1&1, the company that hosts our pages, upgraded several servers on March 12, and that, in turn, changed the ssh hostkey for one of the grotto servers, thus breaking our sync.

A similar problem happened approximately two weeks prior to this for the other grotto server. I expect that we should be ok from this point forward, or at least until 1&1 upgrades their servers again.

I've now corrected the problem and tested the rsync process.