Welcome to Moscow.. :)
We'll be glad to see you here... :)

In St.-Petersbug, we'll be glad too =) You realy should see our North Capital too ;)

language problem
very big problem

But what would we do without problems? :-)

find new problem)

This winter in Moscow is unusually mild (or so I've heard). The upside is that you get to spend more time outside without getting really cold and there is not much muck on the streets (they use some chemical stuff in order to help snow to thaw quicker - it really works, but your shoes start to dissolve too, pretty fast). The downside is ... well, there is no downside, unless you get a chance to visit countryside which looks marvelous covered by snow.

Yeah, it's like 0-5ºC instead of the expected -10 or worse.

about SUP! Why is it the dreaded database unavailable errors are so much more frequent now? Multiple errors when posting comments, etc.

Also -- SUP is measuring people's traffic via counting static files access. Someone should tell them to make it optional as well. Users already posted ways to rewire DNS to a static IP away from sup, but not many folks are agile enough to do it... Especially on Windoze, 99.99% in .ru...

Why is it the dreaded database unavailable errors are so much more frequent now? Multiple errors when posting comments, etc.

Nothing related to SUP... one of our older database clusters is getting overloaded and we're waiting for replacement parts. (replacing the servers, keeping the disk arrays, because we're CPU bound on that cluster...)

Being CPU-bound is good but do peek at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=15815 in case it's a candidate cause. You'll need a support contract or to download the Enterprise (5.0.30) source from ftp to get the bug fix. Don't think we have a 4.0 verson in BK yet if that's what you'd need.

If you're interested in meeting one or two locals unconnected with SUP, you might try victoria@mysql.com or sveta@mysql.com , MySQL two female employees in Moscow (both on the Support side like me).

hope you'll have time to visit St-Petersburg, it's not far and really worth seeing. There are people to meet you here too ;)

yep!estonia is not far to from St-Petersburg)))))))

glad to know that you're in Moscow. You are really lucky to see here such a beautiful weather in December. When I moved to Moscow (from the South) for me the first winter was just a nightmare . ))
If you have a chance to visit St. Pertersburg, go there. Marvellous city.

Brad! We were promised to be able to opt out of sup service.

So, will there be a big red button "TURN OFF SUP" in the settings? When?

The SUP company doesn't want anybody to have to worry about this, so it's looking like there may actually be a "TURN ON SUP" option instead. We're still discussing it. But the service is staying hosted in the United States, and you only have to use SUP if you want to.

Dear Brad!

We can't use SUP only if we want to. It's impossible, until we haven't "OFF" option :-) We by force get services of this company. We already run into troubles delays of e-mail notifications and... time of loading the pages become big! Yes, I understand, that it very strange.

p.s. some words about "language problem". Are You know/understand meaning of nickname "dolboeb"? ;-)

What I'm saying is: It would be OFF by default. You would have to turn it ON if you want it.

Yes, I know what doldoeb means, but I think it's funny. :-)

I think it never be OFF by default. It's ON already and will not changing. It's business.

I think it may be "funny" for ordinary user, but inadmissible and incorrect for top-manager of company which will provide Terms of Service.

Sorry, you have wrong information.

It's good. I wish they'd start blogging more about what they're doing so people could start to not fear/distrust them. Trust takes time to build and I wish they'd "release early, release often", rather than waiting for big/perfect announcements

There, you hit it on the head. They just don't get it, it seems.

As an aside: is there some sort of explanation anywhere to the fact that people as far afield as California US see their static content served from SUP, Moscow?

The static content going to SUP when it shouldn't is my bug, not SUP's... I just can't figure out where. There's some codepath that doesn't reset some stuff at the beginning I'm thinking. I'll figure it out soon enough, because it's bugging SUP too.