What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

foggy_lad

I've sent a tazer to boards HQ to provide a little encouragement to the hamsters but it may not arrive due to the post being bollixed too.

jack presley

Dav,

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057501964/1/#post97232953

This issue is still happening.

thesandeman

Gordon wrote: »

This wouldn't have helped I imagine:

They could have walked outside and tweeted it from their phone.

Insect Overlord

thesandeman wrote: »

They could have walked outside and tweeted it from their phone.

But then they wouldn't have been working on fixing the problem. :P

naughto

Oryx wrote: »

Just a fyi, still getting logged out on touch.

Ya same here and on the phone

Gordon

thesandeman wrote: »

They could have walked outside and tweeted it from their phone.

They could have been trying to fix the site, fix their internet, not been able to log in to company twitter account due to passwords/policy etc.

circadian

Dav wrote: »

Hello everyone.

I'm back form 2 week's holidays today, only to arrive in and find that an ESB substation has popped somewhere around the South William St area and so we've been sitting here with no internet connection in the office for nearly 4 hours. When it rains, it pours, eh?

OK, so the site has been, to use the technical term, bolloxed. I don't fully know why, but we are obviously investigating as I type. Preliminary investigations suggest that one of our database servers went kaput (we have 3) and then a DDOS attack took a second one out of sync which is why you see notification errors, 404's when you post and basically, most of the problems that've been reported over the last 5 days.

It is obviously our number 1 priority to get all 3 database servers back up and running at full speed and in full synchronisation this afternoon so that the vast bulk of these problems disappear.

I will keep you all posted via this thread as the day goes on - I have a couple of weeks worth of stuff to catch up on, so please bear with me.

Finally, I'm really sorry the site's been such a pain in the arse to use this last week or so, I've been just as frustrated as the rest of you because I've been trying to use it too on my time off. We've dropped the ball and that's not good enough and not how we do things, so again, I'm sorry, but we're trying to put it right as we speak.

Welcome back.

This is a similar s**tstorm to what I and probably every other sys admin/engineer returns to from holidays.

Good luck with the SQL resync!

thesandeman

Gordon wrote: »

They could have been trying to fix the site, fix their internet, not been able to log in to company twitter account due to passwords/policy etc.

It never stopped them the other times.
I've no problem with the site being down. These things happen. But the fact they didn't even acknowledge that there was a problem is annoying.

GLaDOS

thesandeman wrote: »

It never stopped them the other times.
I've no problem with the site being down. These things happen. But the fact they didn't even acknowledge that there was a problem is annoying.

Well tbf, Dav has acknowledged that they should have acknowledged it.

Gordon

thesandeman wrote: »

It never stopped them the other times.
I've no problem with the site being down. These things happen. But the fact they didn't even acknowledge that there was a problem is annoying.

These things happen.

MugMugs

thesandeman wrote: »

It never stopped them the other times.
I've no problem with the site being down. These things happen. But the fact they didn't even acknowledge that there was a problem is annoying.

I'm sure the follow on begging and pleading for forgivness thread is inevitable. They may be busy sacrificing a small cow at the moment before they need to resort to the pleading part.

Mrs OBumble

Orion wrote: »

What I take from this thread ... Dav gets holidays?

Not any more he doesn't. Look what happens when he goes away.

Dav

I wouldn't mind, but those were my first holidays (barring the odd day off here and there) since January.

martyos121

Dav wrote: »

I wouldn't mind, but those were my first holidays (barring the odd day off here and there) since January.

I imagine your return to Boards HQ went something like this:

Into The Blue

Orion wrote: »

What I take from this thread ... Dav gets holidays?

Dav gets holidays
Site runs on hamsters
Site goes down while Dav is on hols


You calling Dav a hamster????

Tom Dunne

Dav goes on holidays, site goes wobbly.

Dav returns from holidays, site stabilises.

Just sayin' like.....

+1 for DavClone

TherapyBoy

Dav wrote: »

..since January.

Jaysus, 2 holidays a year!?

Mary! Break out the MasterCard, the Celtic Tiger's back in town! :P

_Tombstone_

Dav wrote: »

I wouldn't mind, but those were my first holidays (barring the odd day off here and there) since January.

How many you normally have?

padd b1975

I don't know what has been more annoying these past few days....

The site acting up, or the "hilarious" one-liners about hamsters:rolleyes::rolleyes:

ThisRegard

The hamster analogy is pretty old alright.

Fr_Dougal

JaMarcusHustle

Good work Dav, looks like everything is back to normascdsacasmmcddccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc

Dr. Mantis Toboggan

padd b1975 wrote: »

I don't know what has been more annoying these past few days....

The site acting up, or the "hilarious" one-liners about hamsters:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Well said Padd. Best delivery you ever made.

Overheal

Dav wrote: »

I wouldn't mind, but those were my first holidays (barring the odd day off here and there) since January.

I'm American and can't fathom getting holidays every year

Penny Tration

Overheal wrote: »

I'm American and can't fathom getting holidays every year

Most people in Ireland get four weeks per year though (20 days).

Stheno

Penny Tration wrote: »

Most people in Ireland get four weeks per year though (20 days).

Unless you're self employed

uck51js9zml2yt

Stheno wrote: »

Unless you're self employed

For the self employed there is a correlation between the time spent on boards, the amount of work done and the ability to take holidays.
Either that or you need to buy a hamster to cover your absence

cowboyBuilder

Oh boo fûcking Hoo boards was down for a bit !!
Get over it ffs !!

Look up from our screens people !!

Loughc

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Oh boo fûcking Hoo boards was down for a bit !!
Get over it ffs !!

Look up from our screens people !!

What and leave my man cave and get attacked by the sun?

Not today Satan. Nice try.

Tompatrick

Caden Broad Fawn wrote: »

For the self employed there is a correlation between the time spent on boards, the amount of work done and the ability to take holidays.
Either that or you need to buy a hamster to cover your absence

Tee hee hee ! Hamster joke ! Lollers mega styleee