**RECENT FORUM OUTAGE**

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Postby Zach » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:57 am

Ok, evidently, my host switched servers and something happened where (I'm guessing) over half of the regular visitors or more were unable to access the site completely. They aren't sure what happened, but everything seems to 100% back to normal now. The missing posts were a result of the actual server switch, and the outage had to do with the new servers "resolving". :dead:

But thanks for your patience; I don't think anyone was fuming more than I was :angry4: and I'm pretty sure my host hates me now... :whistle:

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Postby Jenn » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:55 am

IS there anyway to get those posts back or are they gone for good?
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Postby evil pixie » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:51 am

We must appease the internet gods :bow2: :bow2: :bow1: :bow1:
The Humane Society took Michael Vick's pit bulls, asked for public money to help them, then decided it would be best to kill them... adopt from No Kill shelters http://www.roas.petfinder.com

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Postby Shadowfax » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:56 am

Yay, it's back! :banana2:
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Postby megaabel » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:53 am

am i glad!!! I freaked out there for a moment! : )
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Postby Hijinks » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:55 am

Ugh, they "don't know" what happened? They're lying or they're idiots! You deserve a better answer than that. An outage like this affects your business. First of all, simple DNS issues (totally within their control, IMO) were keeping people from reaching the site. Your nameservers were failing to resolve the host for a while, then they were flat out REFUSING requests. To switch your site to another server, there should have been ample notice and a short planned outage. Seems to me like they did a backup, waited a while, copied your site to the new server, then did the cutover -- so all data between the backup and the cutover was lost. Just a guess. But that's not at all the way to do things. :heated:
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Postby LittleFoot » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:13 pm

I am just happy to be back, it's been a long two days without my forum fix. :D
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Postby aggiegirl » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:56 pm

Littlefoot, I know how you feel. After dealing with my kiddos stomache bugs, I was in bad need of a BTS forum fix. Hurrah, it is back! Thanks Zach!
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Postby Tattoo » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:02 pm

Hijinks ... you sound like my hubby :lol: ... he's a IT systems Administrator. The details are beyond me but I agree sounds like someone fell short of their best effort. Thrilled to be back!!! :wink: Thanks for doggin em Zach. :ohyes:
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Postby SailleSkinklover » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:54 pm

I missed you guys too! Glad things are back up and running! I've been very busy the last two days, so its good to come back and find things back to "normal".... :D
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Postby Zach » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:45 pm

Hijinks wrote:Ugh, they "don't know" what happened? They're lying or they're idiots! You deserve a better answer than that. An outage like this affects your business. First of all, simple DNS issues (totally within their control, IMO) were keeping people from reaching the site. Your nameservers were failing to resolve the host for a while, then they were flat out REFUSING requests. To switch your site to another server, there should have been ample notice and a short planned outage. Seems to me like they did a backup, waited a while, copied your site to the new server, then did the cutover -- so all data between the backup and the cutover was lost. Just a guess. But that's not at all the way to do things. :heated:



Oh, believe me, I know.... ;)

The website is www.bluecapacity.com -- all it is is one kid renting servers in Texas and hosting a few people on them. I would switch, but moving this forum and all the mods I paid to install would be an enormous chore and pain. Last time I switched, all the mod information carried over, but each mod had to actually be reinstalled. Heh, you guys would be amazed how different this forum would be if all the add-ons I put on were gone! No quick reply, no graphics, one of my favorites is the one where if you check one or two posts then come back an hour later, it still shows which posts you've checked, and which you haven't!!! If that wasn't added on, all the posts you haven't looked at get unmarked...

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Postby Steve » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:06 pm

Don't let it happen again. ;)
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Postby LittleFoot » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:43 pm

I am just happy everything is back...though this will be the third time for me to get my 500th post...in each of the past two outages i lost about 15 posts. :?
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Postby Zach » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:30 pm

Jenn wrote:IS there anyway to get those posts back or are they gone for good?



Yeah, gone for good I'm afraid.... :( Guess I'll never get to see your smack talk. :rockon: :twisted: I'm talking to you right now actually..

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Postby Jenn » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:32 pm

LittleFoot wrote:I am just happy everything is back...though this will be the third time for me to get my 500th post...in each of the past two outages i lost about 15 posts. :?


Think about poor me! I'm trying to catch up to Kelly so I can be in second with the most posts and I lost a whole bunch yesterday! I only need about 6,000 more posts until I catch up!
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Postby Brigget » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:45 pm

I have missed something cause i drove down to florida for the weekend. 7 hours one way. i am glad to be home
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Postby herp boy » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:54 pm

I thoght the site was deleted :(
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Postby KyleWeiss » Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:07 pm

It was actually me, I did it. All of it. :edward: You're lucky I'm nice and brought it back.

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Postby DeadEye » Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:23 pm

KyleWeiss wrote:It was actually me, I did it. All of it. :edward: You're lucky I'm nice and brought it back.

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Yere i though it was Kyle ..ya know a good hacker when ya see one =D
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Postby Funda » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:48 am

I couldnt access the forum for nearly a week!!
It said the page couldnt be found and i thought it was deleted aswell :lol:

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