Avalon Bassline...worth it?/ Opinion

The Lounge Other Gear
#222

I was all ready to push the buy button, but this website thing and thinking about the 6+ month wait is making me feel like my $300 TT-303 is good enough.

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#223

I had the Avalon and all the filters. It’s super cool and fun. That said, my tb-303 and Erica db-01 were enough for me that I wanted to save the money instead and I sold it. I’m loving the norand mono too and the sequencer is just killer.

The Avalon is really awesome. But it’s hard to know when you’ll get yours or if you’ll have support if anything happens with it. It’s just too risky, I got mine second hand before prices were truly bonkers.

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#224

wrote a small ruby script to ping the server every 3 seconds to let me know when it’ll be up.

require 'net/http'
require 'launchy' # you need to gem install this one
url = URI.parse("https://abstraktinstruments.com/")
url.port = 80

loop do
  req = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
  res = req.request_head(url.path)
  if res.code == "200"
    Launchy.open("https://abstraktinstruments.com/")
    break
  else
    puts "#{Time.now} #{res.code}"
  end
  sleep(3)
end
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#225

Poor DDOSsed host, poor poor shared hosting (not just from you) :stuck_out_tongue:

#227

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This is where I’m currently at…

#228

Yeah, perhaps they changed hosts.

#229

its a mess.

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#230

sobs

The good thing is that I won’t have such a pricey preorder with so long of a wait, because it’ll be possibly into tomorrow by the time this is all wired-up :stuck_out_tongue:

#231

Unless my fears come true and it sells out while I’m sleeping…

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#232

Yeah, that’s what I expect in my case.

Wanting is not needing, free me of desire oh Wordpress/Woocommerce.

#233

This is not helping it to come back up.

#234

Initially I’d wondered if we were knocking it out, but the site is just not configured for whatever reason.

#235

yeah, 3 seconds is nothing. thats not how DDoSing works. lol.

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#236

Can’t blame persons being confused by the constant resource exhaustion messages their hosting seems to display in lieu of static pages :stuck_out_tongue:

#237

I know. And the number of people interested is small enough that even if they all did this, it wouldn’t matter much. It was a shoestring installation. But it doesn’t have to be DDoS to be irritating to whoever is trying to fix it.

#238
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#239

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#240

why the site isn’t behind a reverse proxy with a static page when the app is down, is beyond me. lol.

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#241

its a one man companies wordpress store

idk it was fine 5 mins before the order window opened, seems the most logical conclusion is it collapsed under the load however many people have been after an avalon clicking.

The shopping cart functionality is backed by a db and not a static html, every page request to store would put more load on the backend.

#243

he should consider something like Squarespace.