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 Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject: Server outage |
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| Our main server has experienced a catastrophic hardware failure, instead of repairing it we've had it replaced entirely. This has meant the site was down for a short time. We are sorry about that as we hate to inconvenience our community. Everything should be back to normal now. |
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icarus
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Tacoma Washington
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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get backup servers or something
i dont think i could live through another outage like that |
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Shad
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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Location: JAPAN
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:26 am Post subject: |
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catastrophic hardware failure? 
did someone get exceptionally hammered at the Moonpod Holiday Party and take a whiz on the mainframe?  |
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Konedima
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Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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Location: Sydney, Land of Censorship
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| Shad wrote: | catastrophic hardware failure?
did someone get exceptionally hammered at the Moonpod Holiday Party and take a whiz on the mainframe? |
generally computers (especially expensive ones) have metal cases |
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Fost
Pod Team
Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hard drive & motherboard failure. Our hosts then set up another machine but for some reason that didn't come online for 48 hours.
Then I don't sleep for a day updating and configuring it.
Then you have to wait for dns to update +12-24 hours.
It's an awful situation - we seem to have had a run of bad luck with servers this year. We may switch to colocated servers nearby next year. then if something goes wrong, we can just drive round to the server and fix it.
Plus, we can put a 4 drive mirrored raid array into it, and about 800 fans! |
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Konedima
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| at least i can say: thank god for backups! |
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Anticheese
Joined: 17 Nov 2005
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Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Dont thank god - Thank common sense |
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Fost
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| Anticheese wrote: | | Dont thank god - Thank common sense |
Thank who you like, but don't thank Ensim - who's backup system just doesn't work in a myriad of ways. In fact, at every stage, Ensim failed, even down to connecting to an ftp site to grab the backups, then culminating in the backups simply not working. We do of course make our own backups, and the database (containing customer info, the forum, etc) is backed up twice daily. |
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