Was this nation wide? A west coast thing? Or Ludite truck driver thing?
Tryed several times since Sunday Night to get through to the Doomers?
Server stuck in the snow?
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Was this nation wide? A west coast thing? Or Ludite truck driver thing?
Tryed several times since Sunday Night to get through to the Doomers?
Server stuck in the snow?
Yes... there was a problem with all of the forums Alex hosts and he's been working like a dog day and night to get it resolved. I'll let him give you all the bloody details.
The PTB decided the SC's have to go down! But they left all the other sites up. I guess the tinfoil palace it too far out to be a danger to them!
will post when i can... its fast and hairy right now.
I'm sure Alex will be back when he can to give us the down and dirty details, but from what he said over on SusCo, his MySQL bit the dust and it was bad. His other forums were more affected than these two. He may have lost literally many thousands of posts and not a few subscribers' details.
He's going to need a few drinks when this is over.
If you guys knew what he was up to at the moment, which is a herculean task, to be sure, to save the forum from being nuked, you'd be amazed. Go Alex!! :D
Serius case of withdrawal symptoms in Aussieland. Thanks for the cure Alex. Hi again everyone. :)
Life is weird.
Up 24 hrs - hand to hand combat with SQL and data
stop...
feed pigs, goats, chicken, and cows in sub zero weather.
grab a beer..
back into data...
lol
Whew! Good to be back, and thanks, Alex, for all you do.
At least you remembered to grab a beer. :D
performance will be sluggish while we are doing the restore of the hunting sites.
It puts a beating on the machine... ANY machine...
Sorry... it should be temporary though.
Alex your really are something special. Just thought i would say that.... i have enough idea to be aware just how HUGE a task this must have been. I hope things really do sort themselves out.
We are here as ever waiting in the wings....... you are tops mate.
and here I was thinking the FEMA MRE thread caught the gov's attention and the SilCo got shut down. Phew, guess I can take off my tin foil hat now.
Is the removal of the chat system permanent?
I see alot of users but few posts. Just want to make sure the site is working.. Seems a-ok but need to ask.
And speed issues are because we are still restoring 2 million posts to the hunting forums :-(
Another long night.
no chat will come back along with my other mods... but I will need to reinstall all of them one and time this week.
need to focus on getting all the sites rebuilt first and then on to the details.
Posting this 'cause you asked...nothing particular to say except thanks!
Keep on hacking buddy, hacking your blues away.
Could this happen again? I mean, do you know what caused it? No rush on the answer. Just curious.
Hear Hear, I say as I drink a beer in honor of Alex Good Work
I'm pretty sure we have a good idea of the forensics of what happened....about 15 different things all at once but the final straw was the -24 degree temps. All together they made for the perfect storm. We've made adjustments to make sure a crash like this can't happen again....as best we can.
I'm gonna light one in your honor.
Thx.
The first time I tried to reply I got no results after 7 min so tried again and got the reply box after 2 min. It took a few minutes for each page of the thread to load.
Not a complaint, just what results I'm getting. I see you're working like crazy. I wish you healthy energy. Take care of yourself, take breaks to refresh yourself.
Nope.. wasnt anyone's fault. New server decided to run crap load of updates at midnight. I knew I shouldnt go to sleep.
Back on it and hopefully keeping it more up than down today.
Really hoping this is the final push to the finish line.
:-(
Alex
Thank you for all you're doing, Alex :)
Wow, I guess I'm the crazy that's up almost as many hours as Alex. Truck drivers never sleep, they just drink more coffee. I hope that your sites are some how making you a few dollars. Because if you work this hard for the love of the game, your crazy.
Good Health to you Alex
Only one site has ads. The rest are 'non-profit' lol.
Hoping things start to level out. Just have to work on performance issues now while rebuilding the other forums from scratch :-(
Lots of caffeine on the way.
i am still getting a weird download thingy when i try to get here unless i click a link in google first .... a part file or something. just FYI. Weird.
Its definitely fixed Red, though this morning I had to clear my firefox cache to convince it that it was lol
Did i mention I hate computers?
Thanx Alex-a job well done indeed.
Don't you have a Level I or Level II support to call on? Pulled a few all nighters myself when I was in the computer field for a living. It is rough stuff. You can burn your gut out on caffeine and after awhile you just DO IT. Hang in there Alex. Hopefully, you are younger than me :). Thank you.
yup working good now thanks!
sorry about the speed issues. We should have those resolved today.
I feel like I did when I was a child in a very religious home, and I'd wake up and couldn't immediately find anyone. I thought the Rapture had come and I'd been left behind.
It's a weird, awful feeling. I'm just glad when the sites finally appear, slow or not. :-)
The sun's over the yardarm here so I say we all raise yet another glass to Alex and Roger, two gentlemen of the finest kind, doing good work under bad conditions.
I suggest everyone who visits this or any other of their sites should say thank you. It's not like they're getting paid to deal with this crap. Labor of love, and I gotta say it must sometimes be tough to love a motley crew such as can be found here, lol!
I also suggest we not pester them with too many questions until they have a chance to inhale and exhale at least a couple of times in a row.
Children are not left behind. People will fail you. But God never will.
Not looking for an argument, it must have been really difficult, that is my only thought.
I'll chime in with the congrats Alex. Great job.
I outgrew it, Steaker. I figured out it was all a fairy tale...Quote:
Children are not left behind. People will fail you. But God never will.
Hey Alex....don't kill yourself. It's a little slow loading but its all good.
If its a day or two or 7, its all good, we will wait for you !
You da Man !
...couple beers, good night's sleep....
LOL ! Does anyone REALLY like computers?
I was gone for a while and come back to the site down? I'm getting too old for this. My heart won't take much more.
You are the man, you know that? I think that we are all closet luddites when it comes to computers. I went to school for this shit and then couldn't bear to actually work in the field. How cowardly is that? Give me back my shovel! Nice to see everyone is still here. Now it's back on my head.
It's not my fault. My dog ate it. I was kidnapped and held for ransom. I have a note. The devil made me do it. (Can't let a perfectly good post go to waste. Are you going to eat the rest of that?)