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RadioRob Grand Master

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The problems that occurred over the last few hours are my fault and I apologize to the community.

 

As I've noted earlier, in order to recover the site quickly when Daddy's server failed... I migrated the site to my personal server. I'm in the process of preparing the site to move to it's permanent home. In order to make sure things transferred correctly, I had to export a copy of everything into the equivalent of a big ZIP file. Because this site is so big, it takes a LONG time to generate. (It takes about 5 hours to export the database and then compress it into a ZIP file.)

 

While this process was occurring, I went out with friends to dinner since it was going to take a while to complete. While I was gone, the server ran out of disk space. As a result, the server could not read/write from the database. I fixed the issue as soon as I got home. I've also fixed a few mySQL database tables that crashed as a result of not having sufficient space.

 

So long story short... my bad. This one was on me. Sorry for the problem.

RadioRob Grand Master

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From looking at activity on the site, this looks to have started around 11PM Eastern and ran for just a little over an hour. Being able to view the site looks to have been restored around midnight and write access around 12:15ish.

samhexum Grand Master

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Really going for that "Administrator of the Year" award, huh? ? ? ?

Only if it involves being presented by a really hot guy in a bow tie and no pants!

 

Well, there goes your nomination for THAT award! ? ? ?

kingsley88 Proficient

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The problems that occurred over the last few hours are my fault and I apologize to the community.

 

As I've noted earlier, in order to recover the site quickly when Daddy's server failed... I migrated the site to my personal server. I'm in the process of preparing the site to move to it's permanent home. In order to make sure things transferred correctly, I had to export a copy of everything into the equivalent of a big ZIP file. Because this site is so big, it takes a LONG time to generate. (It takes about 5 hours to export the database and then compress it into a ZIP file.)

 

While this process was occurring, I went out with friends to dinner since it was going to take a while to complete. While I was gone, the server ran out of disk space. As a result, the server could not read/write from the database. I fixed the issue as soon as I got home. I've also fixed a few mySQL database tables that crashed as a result of not having sufficient space.

 

So long story short... my bad. This one was on me. Sorry for the problem.

Oooh What did you eat? Hopefully something juicy and delicious!!!

coriolis888 Grand Master

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The problems that occurred over the last few hours are my fault and I apologize to the community.

 

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So long story short... my bad. This one was on me. Sorry for the problem.

 

 

You have done and are continuing to do everyone here a big favor.

 

You do not owe anyone an apology.

 

You saved the site from certain extinction.

 

Without your efforts and kindness, the forum would be only a memory, like so many other things in life.

 

Thanks again.

kingsley88 Proficient

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While this process was occurring, I went out with friends to dinner since it was going to take a while to complete. While I was gone, the server ran out of disk space.

Oooh What did you eat? Hopefully something juicy and delicious!!!

sync Grand Master

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The problems that occurred over the last few hours are my fault and I apologize to the community.

 

As I've noted earlier, in order to recover the site quickly when Daddy's server failed... I migrated the site to my personal server. I'm in the process of preparing the site to move to it's permanent home. In order to make sure things transferred correctly, I had to export a copy of everything into the equivalent of a big ZIP file. Because this site is so big, it takes a LONG time to generate. (It takes about 5 hours to export the database and then compress it into a ZIP file.)

 

While this process was occurring, I went out with friends to dinner since it was going to take a while to complete. While I was gone, the server ran out of disk space. As a result, the server could not read/write from the database. I fixed the issue as soon as I got home. I've also fixed a few mySQL database tables that crashed as a result of not having sufficient space.

 

So long story short... my bad. This one was on me. Sorry for the problem.

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RadioRob Grand Master

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First off, thank you for all the work that you do @RadioRob . I am truly thankful. Do you think this site should have a weekly or monthly maintenance schedule so members may know when this site would be down?

Most regular maintenance will happen in the background transparently. My challenge if I set a dedicated window is that I can’t do anything until then. This can delay getting the things needed to stabilize the site.

 

Eventually I’ll need a few one-time windows to actually move the site so we don’t have people posting while data is copying and then get missed. But that would not be a regularly scheduled thing.

samhexum Grand Master

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Sorry about the unplanned outage...

 

 

I am getting a lot of error messages the last few days when I try to edit posts, especially if the editing involves colors or emojis. Maybe because I'm still using Windows XP. ( Oops! We ran into some problems. Please try again later. More error details may be in the browser console. )

 

And I'm extremely grateful for the work you are putting in here.

 

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