Blockexplorer is either Down or Running Extremely Slow & Stuck at 166899 Blocks

[ancow]

The blockcount is stuck on blockexplorer (at 169217) - is that known and/or is there a reason for this?

[slush]

I reported it to theymos few minutes ago...

[theymos]

It'll be fixed in a few minutes.

Putting the bitcoind block database in memory makes things much faster, but I think the data somehow gets easily corrupted in a way which causes bitcoind to reject all additional blocks. I'll try putting the database on the SSD instead.

[slush]

SSD is really solid solution, I'm running a lot of instances on SSD disk without any issue...