Downtime...

Glad to see site back, but just to let you know when I was logging in I received an error page. It went to the normal page (the 'welcome to boards' one) and then failed while trying to move to whatever page I was viewing.

Received a database error a minute or two after the site came back up (SMcCarrick mentioned on boards.us that it was up, so I wandered back) but it seems back ok now.

Any news on what caused it?

The_Conductor

Lag is something crazy- I've tried both Muppet and Pie with no difference whatsoever. Random db errors too- cannot open some fora until second or third attempt. Must get fix....... (for me that is......)

regi

smccarrick wrote:

I've tried both Muppet and Pie with no difference whatsoever.

That's because there's no difference. None, nada. Dunno how many times I've said that now

r3nu4l

Thanks for all the hard work Admin types Great to have the site back.

/breathes deeply

Anti

Did someone let sput loose around the DataCentre again?

BigTommyBomb

The downtime was very bad today. I was waiting for a pm off somebody. Could whichever of you tech geeks is responsible not let this happen again.
thanks.

patrickc

BigTommyBomb wrote:

The downtime was very bad today. I was waiting for a pm off somebody. Could whichever of you tech geeks is responsible not let this happen again.
thanks.

thats a bit harsh it's very rare these things happen,

Stark

BigTommyBomb wrote:

The downtime was very bad today. I was waiting for a pm off somebody. Could whichever of you tech geeks is responsible not let this happen again.
thanks.

That's a shame. Beruthiel only sends out the admin passwords once. If they got lost, then tough totty.

smashey

BigTommyBomb wrote:

The downtime was very bad today. I was waiting for a pm off somebody. Could whichever of you tech geeks is responsible not let this happen again.
thanks.

It won't happen when you make admin.

quarryman

patrickc2006 wrote:

thats a bit harsh it's very rare these things happen,

yes they do. If you've been around boards a while you'd know that.

Oriel

Myth wrote:

Any news on what caused it?

The old hamster died.

patrickc

quarryman wrote:

yes they do. If you've been around boards a while you'd know that.

I mean for such long periods, it often goes down but not for a long time usually

seamus

quarryman wrote:

yes they do. If you've been around boards a while you'd know that.

I'll take a shot in the dark and say that boards has gone down in an unscheduled fashion maybe twice (including last night) since Christmas. The first time was only an hour or so.

For a massive-volume website run entirely by volunteers, that's pretty damn good. Some corporate sites don't have that good a record.

Cuddlesworth

BigTommyBomb wrote:

The downtime was very bad today. I was waiting for a pm off somebody. Could whichever of you tech geeks is responsible not let this happen again.
thanks.

Maybe when you get your Admin powers you can take over the job of caring for the hamsters. You know do things like shift rota, medical checks and the greasing of the wheel. I'm sure boards could do with somebody who has those skills. It's all a little too much for the tech geeks to handle.

Kinetic^

BigTommyBomb wrote:

The downtime was very bad today. I was waiting for a pm off somebody. Could whichever of you tech geeks is responsible not let this happen again.
thanks.

Shut your pie hole you tard!!!

AlmightyCushion

In all fairness it's a massive site with a lot of users and a lot of traffic, the fact that this doesn't happen more often is a miracle. But man did it suck not having boards.

The_Conductor

Kenny 5 wrote:

Shut your pie hole you tard!!!

I thought he was trying to be funny (and failed miserably.....)

AlmightyCushion

BigTommyBomb wrote:

The downtime was very bad today. I was waiting for a pm off somebody. Could whichever of you tech geeks is responsible not let this happen again.
thanks.

If they PM'd you while the site was down then how the hell would you be able to read it.

Cuddlesworth

AlmightyCushion wrote:

If they PM'd you while the site was down then how the hell would you be able to read it.

If he was expecting a pm reply from a user, but boards was down so they could not send it. Any better?

And I don't think he needs to be called a tard, most people are not aware of the amount of effort it takes to keep something like boards running. Maybe enlighten them to that before insulting them.

AlmightyCushion

krazy_8s wrote:

If he was expecting a pm reply from a user, but boards was down so they could not send it. Any better?

Sorry kinda misread what he said.

quarryman

seamus wrote:

I'll take a shot in the dark and say that boards has gone down in an unscheduled fashion maybe twice (including last night) since Christmas. The first time was only an hour or so.

For a massive-volume website run entirely by volunteers, that's pretty damn good. Some corporate sites don't have that good a record.

actually it hasn't gone down that many times but there's regular database errors and before the server move; major lag in pages loading.

it seems it ain't fixed still, i'm getting timeouts now every 3rd or 4ht page i load.

5starpool

Ya, still not right for me now either, getting database problems a lot today, but usually ok when I try a minute later. Very hit and miss

Sparky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gI1pGktddw

mike65

Have any of our betters deigned to tell us what the f-u-c-k went wrong again yesterday and if they can give us an assurance that it won't happen again short of a calamitous systems failure.

Mike.

ps I won't be renewing my sub - why pay for shoddy goods?

ecksor

Next thing you'll stop posting. We'll miss you mike65.

CuLT

Paying all this money to the boards.ie staff is really terrible when this semi-state service goes down so often.

mike65

Ecksor I doubt you miss me somehow. If I did stop. If.

Mike.

ps the front page was 'hanging' for 30 mins, I put it out of its misery. The site is pretty much unnavigable. And still no explaination. Maybe we don't deserve one. *shruggs*

Sparky

Afaik, Asok got up of the servers to actually do the Jack Bauer of craps and then all went haywire. (I think his pussy needed feeding tbh)

Regi had a night of fun. So much that he has decided to buy shares in Lyons tea and not actually give up his smoking.

The_Conductor

Spankeh wrote:

Afaik, Asok got up of the servers to actually do the Jack Bauer of craps and then all went haywire. (I think his pussy needed feeding tbh)

Regi had a night of fun. So much that he has decided to buy shares in Lyons tea and not actually give up his smoking.

Lol Spankeh- that Hamster (or is it a guinea pig) dance rules....

I don't see what people's problem is- Boards.ie is an excellent site and the admins do a good job. The subscription is only a token gesture towards the running of the site. Well done on getting the migration over as well as it happened- I've seen sites vanishing for weeks on end during migrations......

Asok

There was some database corruption that led to the site being taken down for maintenance while the damage was repaired. With the boards database being the beast it is this took time, No one will give you any sort of assurances on the stability and availability of this site. It is pretty much a guaranteed fact that most software will throw a wobbly every now and then and what matters how the issue is dealt with and rectified. I'm sorry that this was not done at the speed some people wished it to be done however as far as I can remember tom's hair cannot bend the rules of time and space and sometimes fixing something just takes time.

mike65

Thankyou Asok, what those in charge seem to forget so quickly is that no information is what really pisses people off.

Mike

ps Opera 8.54 is useless atm for boards, I'm now using v9.21 and its fine.

pps while trying IE6 (ugh) I typed out a long PM to Victor and the flipping
"could not connect to server" mesage apeared and the message was lost so I'm just seriously peed off right now.

Pacifico

Yeah i'm getting random page timeouts also

faceman

^ me too, plus the site is taking ages to do anythin. im with ntl

Stepherunie

I'm getting intermittent instances of boards not working. Happened yesterday for a while and just there again. Actually wasn't going to post this but went to go to the PMP forum and it wouldn't load.

Thought it may be my sometimes dodgy connection but every other page is loading fine. A refresh does seem to sort it out though.

the_syco

gandalf

mike65 wrote:

pps while trying IE6 (ugh) I typed out a long PM to Victor and the flipping "could not connect to server" mesage apeared and the message was lost so I'm just seriously peed off right now.

Thats why I write any pms or long winded posts in Notepad first and then copy and past onto boards. If it times out then I still have a copy

Learnt from painful experience I'm afraid....

Stark

Firefox is quite good for letting you go back to your PM/post if the server crashes. You can still lose posts to the Quick Reply box though

Sparky

the_syco wrote:

Good man. You heard my call

Villain

Down for a few mins, but we are back again!

regi

mea culpa, as ever. Forked the DB in the icehole for a min

Asok

Never Touch The Cornballer!

Doodee

im so sick of this ****.
I agree with everyone.
Everytime im bored or looking for something to do I always try to browse boards.ie and end up spending way too long here. Its ****ing ridiculous, I mean, No timeouts or database errors, im really feeling like im being left out of the clique here

nesf

mike65 wrote:

pps while trying IE6 (ugh) I typed out a long PM to Victor and the flipping
"could not connect to server" mesage apeared and the message was lost so I'm just seriously peed off right now.

I get that if I spend too long writing a reply it freezes up like that for me too in any browser. I figured it was something messed up with this PC tbh.