Todays Downtime

[Hells Warrrior]

Sorry folk's, I've tried to minimise this as much as possible over the year, unfortunately today could have been avoided.

 

Basically routine maintenance on the database was performed (repairing and optimizing tables with overhead) - when processing the posts table the table crashed. Due to the amount of posts and my limited time throughout today, we only came back an hour ago but had to wait til I got home.

 

Sorry folk's, routine maintenance caused the problem, shouldn't happen again.

[Lenne]

I was so sad when I got home. ;_;

 

Pressed F5 for 3 hours straight.

[Guest]

I was so sad when I got home. ;_;

 

Pressed F5 for 3 hours straight.

 

I just kept loading the site up every hour, bored out of my mind!

[GodOfWarrio]

yeah I kept refreshing. just glad it's back on

[Chopper]

Get the pitch forks ready guys and I'll stoke the bonfire.

I'll take infrequent downtime every time if it means regular housekeeping.

[Tasha]

I bet Boomy was behind all this ! >;(

[The Clay Bird]

geez, i had to do some actual work here at the office today! boooo!

[PINNAZ]

All whilst I slept.

Good morning!

[Boom115]

I bet Boomy was behind all this ! >;(

 

Mwuahahahaha

 

Remember when we used to go down for weeks at a time? You kids got a pretty sweet deal with Mr. Craig at the helm. Nice work getting the gears turning again Craig-o.

[Guest]

@Boom, that sounds like my personal nightmare

[Boom115]

@Boom, that sounds like my personal nightmare

 

Yep we've come a long way as a site. Definitely important to remember that this site doesn't just magically run itself. It takes a lot of time dedication from all staff (especially HW)(Not so much Eye and Jolty ). Definitely thankful for the awesome group I get to work with!

[Hells Warrrior]

The thing is, it should run itself - it shouldn't need "much" back end stuff to be done. Occassionally running cleanup tools on the database, optimization code where and when possible and keeping things upto date and so forth. Downtime should really be a thing that has been put the kerb but occassionally gremlins occur and today was a gremlin in a routine procedure, We would have been back a hell of a lot quicker

 

However, as I was at work and in meetings throughout the day, I had to ask the host to repair the table via shell (command line).

 

If I had the time today, I would have fixed it straight after it had occurred but sods law.

[Tac]

Haha I actually did some homework Thanks for getting it back up, much appreciated!

[Dummkopt]

I had to read lesser forums to go to sleep, which gave me weird dreams and a sore back...

[S.O.P.H.I.A.]

mmmhhm

 

Not sure what you mean by mmmhhm and from a post that was made over 4 weeks ago?