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It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:33 am
by Omphalos
Praise the lord!

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:19 am
by ᴶᵛᵀᴬ
Amen ! :pray:

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:45 am
by The Phantom
HOORAY!!!

was there any data loss?

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:54 am
by Freakzilla
Ring out the church bells, strike up the band!

...and I thought I might actually get some work done this week. :doh:

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:08 am
by GamePlayer
Whatever. It's not like I missed this place :wink: :P

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:45 am
by SandChigger
Hey, were the boards down again?

It's about 1:45 AM Saturday morning JST here (12:45 PM EDT Friday), and when I tried accessing both sites about 15 minutes ago, neither one showed up. (Server not found error.)

Are we spotty, or really back? :(

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:48 am
by Omphalos
Still checking on data loss. The only way to check really is to search around and find it.

Right now we are intentionally spotty. The server will come down several more times over the weekend as new things are added. We have a number of boards and blogs to bring back on line and some of that cant be done while users are knocking on the door. We are also taking the opportunity to upgrade everything. So we will have the latest PHPbb, for example. We aer also upgrading to php 5.0, and a bunch of other things. MySQL is getting upgraded too. If you get spotty service, just check back. Its probably us messing around.

Ill make an announcement on HToD if anything will be going down for longer than 15 minutes.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:08 am
by SandChigger
OK, cool. Was just wondering.

(I'd had a lie-down for most of the evening—damned hole in my jaw—and everything had been back up, so I was concerned when nothing showed. :( )

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:40 am
by Omphalos
Just to acknowledge that we were down for a bit here this morning. Some genius managed to get our old hard drive working again ( :shock: ), so we were downloading stuff from it and had to restart the hard drive. We are having a bit of trouble getting the web server software to get going after that, but we think its a configuration issue, and if so that should be easily resolvable.

Definitely will not be smooth sailing until a few days have passed, but the lion's share of connectivity issues should be in the past now.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:45 pm
by Nekhrun
Fuck Yeah!

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:19 pm
by Ragabash
We seem to have recovered as well as we're going to.

Thanks to the genius of Alan, the server tech at the colo facility that hosts this server, we managed to save the majority of essential data and software from the old drive. Some of it got corrupted, but that seems to be in the small minority, and does not appear to include any of the data or executable files for the boards, or any other web site the machine hosts.

If you notice any missing posts or strange behavior of the board, please let me or Omphalos know. (this goes for Jacurutu too, naturally.) if you DO notice a missing post, that pretty much means it's gone forever. Two of the files that got toasty when the disk went down were the tables that contain posts for both TaU and Jacurutu, so there is a small possibility that this has occured.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:46 pm
by Omphalos
Nekhrun wrote:Fuck Yeah!
Ameeeericaaaaa!

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:39 pm
by Mandy
Is it just me, or are the pages stretched now? I have to scroll to the side to read the posts, and there aren't any wide images in this thread.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:57 pm
by Omphalos
Mandy wrote:Is it just me, or are the pages stretched now? I have to scroll to the side to read the posts, and there aren't any wide images in this thread.
Is that Askaris' sig file that's doing that to you, Mandy? If not let me know. There may be some leftover problems from the recent frazzle.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:03 pm
by Eyes High
Looking great to me so far. Thanks for all your hard work and bring this and Jacurutu back up so quickly.

I havn't checked in at the other two sites yet, but hope you were able to get those back up and running as well.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:13 am
by Omphalos
Almost done with everything, Eyes. We will have everything back up for good tomorrow night, and all updates done by next week.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:37 am
by ionah
my congratulations to Dr Frankenstein to have brought that beast back to life ! :dance:

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:29 am
by Mandy
Omphalos wrote:
Mandy wrote:Is it just me, or are the pages stretched now? I have to scroll to the side to read the posts, and there aren't any wide images in this thread.
Is that Askaris' sig file that's doing that to you, Mandy? If not let me know. There may be some leftover problems from the recent frazzle.
I don't know, the image in his sig doesn't seem to be wide enough to stretch the page. I'll block it and see what happens.

Edit: Nope, it's not his sig.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:51 pm
by Eyes High
I don't have to slide on my computer.
Hope you find the glitch Mandy.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:04 pm
by Mandy
I should also mention that I noticed there's a scroll bar at the bottom of the page even if I don't have a thread open. I'm using the Getaway template.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:30 pm
by Omphalos
If you cannot fix it, take a screen capture and mail it to me at gtidwell at surewest dot net.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:10 pm
by Mandy
I really have no idea how to fix it, I haven't changed any of my settings. The weird thing is that it's not stretched on the main index page, but when I open a forum or a thread it is. It's not really a big deal, just weird.

Re: It's Alive!

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:35 pm
by Rakis
Wow! I go on vacation and we nearly lost the board?

Damn...was hoping on using kitties from Red Deer for a sacrifice to save something... :(

Oh,well... :) Here, kitty,kitty...