Re: July 19th Downtime

[LiNuX]

Our server experienced technical issues early Thursday morning which made the server inaccessible. I had no access due to the physical server being down. After the Datacenter tried to fix the issue all day, it was decided that we move to a new server. So for the past few hours the forum was moved to a new server and so far everything is stable.

You may notice lag here and there for the next day as I run some tests and work on the backend of the new server. No data was lost in the downtime.

Sorry for any inconvenience, it was a big headache for me as well all day long but I am glad that it is resolved for now.

If you have any questions regarding the downtime, please feel free to use this thread to ask. Thanks for your patience!

~LiNuX

[paecmaker]

Ok, I see.

First I thought it was just me having problems coming in(it has happened before).

[Trunks]

The worst day for me for it to happen. My gaming computer, I f'd it up clearing our me registry and I deleted the registry that saves the location of desktop icons when you turn off or restart the computer. I thought it would just come back, apparently it didn't, and I couldn't find a way to fix it so I just reformatted my PC.

So I just had my crappy laptop and no forum to go on all day, glad it's back up now at least.

[LiNuX]

Ok, I see.

First I thought it was just me having problems coming in(it has happened before).

At first I thought it was just a glitch on my monitor because I received just one message, usually I get bombarded with it with a new message every 5 minutes. This was our first major downtime in a year. The last actual downtime was before we moved to the server (I'm not counting any of the times I had to take the server down myself for upgrades since they were all scheduled).


The worst day for me for it to happen. My gaming computer, I f'd it up clearing our me registry and I deleted the registry that saves the location of desktop icons when you turn off or restart the computer. I thought it would just come back, apparently it didn't, and I couldn't find a way to fix it so I just reformatted my PC.

So I just had my crappy laptop and no forum to go on all day, glad it's back up now at least.

Ah :( I had plans to finish other work yesterday and actually focus on my job for a big meeting I had to go to. I was so out of focus yesterday and I don't even remember what I said in the meeting now.

I was up for 24 hours straight yesterday (4am to 4am) dealing with the issue. Kept in constant contact with the Datacenter. I think I bugged them a little too much because they offered me a new server out of the blue.

But thank you Ubiquity Servers (https://www.ubiquityservers.com/) for actually doing that, most other providers would just stay on trying to fix a broken server.

[Trunks]

The things you do for us Linux, most admins would put it off to the side until they had time to deal with it. Not you though, shows you care a lot about us.

[CraeSC111]

Thought it was just my phone acting up again :p
Anyway thanks for bugging those datacenter people for us. I really appreciate the work you do for this server and perhaps I will see if I can scrounge up some money to donate :D

[Mizel]

I was wondering what happened! I was skurred the site was down.... *gasps* forever :O

[LiNuX]

I was wondering what happened! I was skurred the site was down.... *gasps* forever :O

Never!

The most downtime we had was back in 2007 where the site was down for a week because the server was really screwed up. If we didn't shut down then, we aren't going to shut down now :) Not with the forum's 6th birthday coming up.

[Mizel]

Ohhhh, 6 years? That's awesome. Something celebratory is in order ;)

[Dess]

I almost died! I had nothing to do at work!!!! Glad you got everything sorted out Master!!!!

[Echo]

At first I thought it was my new computer, but this clears things up : D