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Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:39 pm
by pete
The forum crashed yesterday due probably to a bug in the Yabb scripts. Because of this it may happen again. Unfortunately it happened during a rare time I did not visit the forums for 24 hours.

Thank you to Alrot and Shane for alerting me to the problem!! Had it stayed live for any longer a lot more damage could have been done.

The forum has been rebuilt taking many hours of intense & careful effort. Luckily my connection did not get interrupted during this otherwise it would NOT have been good.

I do not know the damage done -- but that will emerge when useage builds again today.

I envisage some people who re-registered their accounts during the crash time may have problems.

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:44 pm
by charlesed
Always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when everythings working.

Definately thank you for all the hard work you went through to bring the board back. The community owes you a lot of thank you's for all the work you've done. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]



Anyway, being possibly a problem with YaBB itself have you had to think about moving to a different system should this happen again?

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:18 pm
by Steve M
Thank you, Pete!  :)

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:21 pm
by Alejandro Rhodes
+2 ,Thanks a lot Pete  ;)

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:24 pm
by Ravang
Nice to see the forum back up and running... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

Good work, Pete! [smiley=clapping.gif]

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:24 pm
by ShaneG_old
Definitely an interesting time. ;D


Great job Pete getting us back up and going.

We'll keep an eye out for strangeness.  ;)

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:49 pm
by pete
Anyway, being possibly a problem with YaBB itself have you had to think about moving to a different system should this happen again?


... yes ...  8-)

I did enquire about that a couple of times on forum/forums and the verdict seemed to be that it would be a difficult conversion with this size ....

A solution will be found though -- it always is :)

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:20 pm
by Sir_Crashalot
Good to see everything is up and running again.

Crash ;)

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:34 pm
by BigTruck
Thanks for keeping us alive Pete!!!  

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:36 pm
by Mitch.
Thankyou pete. We all appreciate it. :-* :-*

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:26 am
by Fozzer
Well done, Pete!... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

Without Sim V back in action, the past 10+ years of my life would have been just a distant memory!... ::)... :'(....!

Paul... ;).. ;)... ;)...!

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:36 am
by Mazza
Cheers Pete, Drinks on me tonight*Image





*Even though I'm not 18 hehehe

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:20 am
by TigerAl
Seconded and thirded the above thanks.

I can start breathing again now!

Cheers mate. [smiley=clapping.gif]

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:21 pm
by Brando14100
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We'll keep an eye out for strangeness.

Re: Forum crash

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:35 pm
by charlesed
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We'll keep an eye out for strangeness.