Downtime

[Brockas]

Recieved from our host:

"Due to space and power constraints in our primary datacenter we are movingthe entire shared cluster “spacey” to our LAX facility at 10:00PM PST (GMT- 8), two weeks from today, Friday, November 30th 2007.

All webservers,mail servers, file servers, and MySQL servers in the spacey cluster willbe unreachable during the move, which we expect to take approximately 8 hours. Receiving this email means the downtime window will affect your site(s).

We do apologize for this inconvenience. Rest assured we will do everythingpossible to keep downtime to a minimum. If you have any questions regarding the server move, please contact oursupport team. "


So sometime on a friday night the site will be down for 8 hours or so. Not much I can do about it unfortunately.

[RICEY]

No worries cheers for the heads up.

Must organise an 8 hour cruise for Friday night then hey hahaha

[Kilma]

Or Saturday afternoon even?? :lol:

10pm PST (GMT-8) = 3pm WDS (GMT +9)

[Joe]

I'll be in Broome.....perfect timing :D

[Lonewolf]

OH NOES NO FORUM FOR 8 HOURS!@!@!

[INSINR8R]

time to bust out the razors...

[Macca]

I'll be in Broome.....perfect timing :D

why would you want to come to broome for??

ps we do have net access :p

[Brockas]

Hope you all enjoyed the downtime.

We are back up and running, and I'm assured by our host that this maintenance should make the site more reliable.

[Brockas]

Some avatars will be affected until we sort out an issue with the server.

Basically some of the coding is wrong and it's putting a huge drain on it.

Will try and fix this shortly.

[Skitzo]

is it just me or is it running slow... and being uber ghey....

[RICEY]

Running like a pig here too.

Some times of day its ok others its slow as fark.

[Skitzo]

glad its not just me then....

[Brockas]

Ok, we're going to need everyone to host their own avatars for the time being.

This is pretty simple:


go to - www.tinypic.com

upload the picture from your computer

copy the "direct link for layouts" code



On this site go to "quick links" --> "edit profile" --> "edit avatar"

then paste that code into where it says "Enter URL to Image".


Once plenty of people have done this, we can re-enable the image.php file on our server.

Cheers.

[Skitzo]

does it have to be tiny pic. gave it a shot with photobucket. but no love....

[Kilma]

Should work in photobucket as well. Did you use the [img] tags, or just the url?

[Skitzo]

just the URL... then it just came up with a box saying custom avatar or something. tried using the default drift one. but that didnt work either.

[Brockas]

It wont work until we re-enable the image.php file.


We can't do that until people change their avatar's to a link instead of being hosted by our server.


It wont appear to have worked until we re-enable the file.

[Skitzo]

oh ok... i getchya.. just that some peoples were working and thought that that was cause they had done it.

[Kilma]

Can you not just go through and do a mass delete of them as admin just to get them back, and then people can go put their oen ones back up?

Just a suggestion.

[Evilteddy]

We could, but sometimes this server would be the only place you could find a copy of the avatar, so people need to save it and then remove it, or whatever.

I could go through and delete everyones but i'd get people asking me for a copy of them.

[Brockas]

Plus at the moment there doesn't seem to be an option to reset everyone's avatar, which would mean going through and individually removing each members avatar.

Would take hours!

[Kilma]

If you can't see it, how can you save it? People wouldn't be able to save them as they currently are anyway.

Fair enough Brockas. Keeping in mind I don't know anything about board admins etc., I would have thought there would be a mass delete in the options somewhere. It appears I thought wrong... again. :(

[SimonR32]

a dingo seems to have stole my avatar

[Brockas]

Have enough people done this yet??

[confuzion]

i dont even have the option to enter a URL for my avatar pic
under Edit Avatar all i have is the check box for 'do not use avatar' & 'Drift'

[Macca]

i dont even have the option to enter a URL for my avatar pic
under Edit Avatar all i have is the check box for 'do not use avatar' & 'Drift'

should look like this

http://i11.tinypic.com/85ayglj.jpg

[Onijin]

Doesn't work for me either. Anyway, I've disabled mine just then.

Just give it a try Paul and see what happens. If it doesn't work, shut it down and try and get more people to disable or switch to remote hosting.

[Brockas]

Ok I'll re-enable avatars, just need people to host them on tinypic once I do, otherwise the load on the server will be too great and we will experience downtime again.

Cheers!

[Slip_]

im getting this... wiggen out!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/Slip_87SX/screendump.gif

[ben351]

ME TOO

YOUS KUNTS ARE FUCT

NO AVTARS ISSIT ?

[Brockas]

Try it now...


REMEMBER:

ENTER A URL!!!!


DO NOT UPLOAD FROM YOUR COMPUTER

[Slip_]

sorted!