Outage - Apologies. (The Site Niggles Thread)

Discussion in 'Network Information, Suggestions and Feedback' started by von Poop, Jul 16, 2008.

  1. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    :peepwalla:

    Apologies to those of you that have had access problems to the site this morning and overnight.

    :icon_crash:

    It looks like the forum's system for indexing threads had picked up a small glitch along the way, as a sweep/rebuild of that area seems to have fixed the problem.

    Hopefully we're back on track again, there'll be some double checking to be absolutely sure.

    Apologies again, and thanks to those of you that reported the problem.

    Cheers,
    Adam.
     
  2. Exxley

    Exxley Senior Member

    I swear I have nothing to do with it !
     
  3. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    Is it playing up again ? I couldn't access for a few hours this evening and then when I could enter, I couldn't preview or post a reply because I took too long typing it (maybe it's just a bullshit filter ?)
     
  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I thought it might just have been me being on a 'holiday' connection, thanks for confirming it's more widespread.
    Definitely been a bit shaky here and on WW2f this evening, we'll get on the case and see if it's something we can sort or just one of those 'internetish' things that passes of it's own accord... Suspect it might be down to backups running at a bad time, but don't quote me!

    In the meantime I'm sorry for those of you having trouble, I know what a pain in the arse it can be :glare:.

    I promise you chaps, we're on the case.

    Adam.
     
  5. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Whatever you did to break WW2Talk, also broke WW2F. Please don't do it again.
     
  6. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Word from our glorious leader Otto that the server had some sort of problem but had rebooted itself by the time he got back to his pooter.

    One of those things by the sound of it, I can only apologise & hope that's it for the Gremlins.

    I knew I shouldn't have fed them after midnight...


    Cheers,
    Adam.
     
  7. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Evening all,
    Apologies to those that have experienced difficulty getting into the forum over the last hour, I'm contacting the Techmeister so we can have a dig about and see what's causing it.

    ~A

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  8. militarycross

    militarycross Very Senior Member

    :)Maybe the Beachmaster's solution is in order?:)
     
  9. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    OK, talked to The Glorious Leader.

    Yesterdays brief outage was indeed down to backups running, slowed down somewhat by the large lump of 'stuff' that is the currently closed gallery.

    Today's seems to have been a widespread blip among US service providers (we're hosted in the States). Once again it looks like it's just 'one of those occasional things' and the integrity of the site's completely unaffected.

    We'll keep trying to be as honest as possible when these things happen, and this one does appear to be another of those annoying bloody passing Gremlins.
    (Hopefully very clever people somewhere in the USA are metaphorically chucking it into a bin-bag and beating it with sticks.)

    ~A
     
  10. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Do we get a credit on our monthly statement for the down time?
     
  11. Smudger Jnr

    Smudger Jnr Our Man in Berlin

    Glad to hear that the problem was with the server side and not my computer, which I thought was playing up on me.

    As always you moderators are onto the case, thanks.

    Regards

    Tom
     
  12. Passchendaele_Baby

    Passchendaele_Baby Grandads Little Girl

  13. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    Is it me or is the forum painfully slow tonight ? It's been tripping out on me when I preview.

    No problems anywhere else, even on the side-valve forums (and side valves are realy slow !)
     
  14. Bodston

    Bodston Little Willy

    It was a bit sticky for me too Rich.

    Seems OK again now.
     
  15. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Is it me or is the forum painfully slow tonight ? It's been tripping out on me when I preview.

    No problems anywhere else, even on the side-valve forums (and side valves are realy slow !)


    Same problem for me also, very slow site, no problems elsewhere.
     
  16. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    Response from the site has been as slow as hell for most of today.

    The roads have been lovely and empty of cars because of the half term and I thought that maybe the kids were all at home hogging the internet with downloads and stuff.
     
  17. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    Response from the site has been as slow as hell for most of today.

    The roads have been lovely and empty of cars because of the half term and I thought that maybe the kids were all at home hogging the internet with downloads and stuff.

    It's not half term over here so it can't be that !
     
  18. WotNoChad?

    WotNoChad? Senior Member

    The gallery should be taken outside and shot...
     
  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Very aware of the intermittent slowdowns chaps.
    In conference with the glorious leader.
    There is some mucking about to be done.
    Will keep you posted.

    ~A
     
  20. militarycross

    militarycross Very Senior Member

    The chores are never done til the mucking is done!

    Ever thus!

    Having said that, I realize the perverse nature of this electronic universe and know the magnetic forces that play against us are inversely proportionate to how important the subject is -- like this forum, for instance.
     

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