Re: Down again?

Quinlin Hopkins Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:42 pm

Yes quite a few interesting posts here as well if you'll poke around a bit for them. Glad to see most of you alive and well still. Stiff upper lip and all that.

Miles (a sailor)Martin Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:44 pm

as of 8:42am EST in baltimore i got the down for mantinence login. i am under the imperssion this means ,oops we did it again? Embarassed

mwbaailey Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:52 pm

*sigh*...

Have they tried whacking it a really good one with a huge spanner or maybe a rather large sledgehammer?

I sneezed really hard last night. I hope that wasn't what kicked it offline...

Prof_Von_Grumbleflick Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:54 pm

Yup.. Just "maintenance" message for me too for today. Sad

Ah, well. I'll put the kettle on, shall I?

Siliconous Skumins Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:26 pm

Today is not a good day for me - first BG is offline again, then my computer PSU blows up (literally - and it was an expensive one aswell!), I can't get out to the shop to buy a replacement, this means that my VOIP house phone and my security cameras are all down too. GRRR!
And to top it all off I'm having to use my 7" netbook for ALL internet access due to the fact that my three other replacement computers have craped out too (mix of old age and dodgy power supplies). The keyboard on this netbook is taking a little getting used to, mainly due to the different key placements, the size is OK for most things (not shure I want to write a long document on it though...).

BAH! Mad

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auntie ludmilla Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:27 pm

Earl Grey, milk no sugar, thanks.

SweetestPoison Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:01 pm

just blame the weather. It´s what everyone in Britain is currently doing. The undergrads had their exams cancelled and their essays extended, while we poor postgrads are deemed old enough to man up and deal with it and got nothing of the sort -.-

Alegrah Eredschtadt Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:11 pm

Maintenance message for me, too. It was up last night when I was on, but extremely slow...

Sgt.MajorThistlewaite Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:42 pm

By Jingo, the old place ought to be absolutely spiffing when it comes back up!

Prof_Von_Grumbleflick Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:56 pm

Why don't they move the forum over to the host for Sparegoggles? It seems stable enough! Or is there are sparesparegoggles forum around somewhere that I've not found yet? haha!

Auntie Ludmilla- Biscuit with that?

wormster Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:39 am

Never mind the tea and biccies, I've had a rather trying day, would somebody be so kind as to pass the port decanter and stilton this way please?

HAC Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:49 am

Boffins notified...

Cheers
Harold

HAC Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:09 am

aaaand we;re back up..

Siliconous Skumins Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:14 am

Well My house computer is now running again, and that required me to build a working ATX power supply from two very under powered, and slightly questionable quality ATX PSUs from my junk pile. Two ATX PSUs welded together in parallel to provide 500Watts (roughly) output, both acting as a single dual rail PSU.

And that was still quicker than BG takes to recover.... Shocked

If this outage was caused by our host messing with settings / updates again, I'm going to hire a hit-man to find that damn technician.....

Thank Cog it's back anyway! Very Happy

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J. Wilhelm Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:29 am

Anybody experiencing timeouts today? I got to post just a couple of hours ago, but now I can't view the site or log in as it just times out... scratch

By the way, reports about malware messages reported by the Google Chrome browser have turned out (at least for me) to be a virus attached to a png image file, according to my antivirus engine, so Chrome may not be lying after all. I hope this is not related.

J. Wilhelm

LizerSparkes Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:41 am

*Sigh* I can't even get onto the site at all now... it's down again....

Miss Gaslight Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:57 am

I cant get it to load either. I will ask HAC if he knows what is going on.

Captain Shipton Bellinger Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:09 am

Oh dear. What more is there to say? Crying or Very sad

James Harrison Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:16 pm

Not again

markf Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:05 pm

Yes, again. Sigh. markf

James Harrison Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:08 pm

This is getting beyond an irritation for me now. I'm beginning to see the merit behind the idea of having our own server.

akumabito Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:33 pm

There we go again..

For some reason though, I am doubting the outages are related to heavy traffic on the forum. It could just be me, but I think the forum was much more active about a year or so ago, and it ran fine back then.. have the stats really jumped up that much since then?

Miss Gaslight Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:23 pm

I think we really do need our own sever and I also think if everyone chips in it wouldn't be too bad. I mean I would be willing to toss in a chunk of change to get us running smoothly again.

James Harrison Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:51 pm

Miss Gaslight wrote:I think we really do need our own sever and I also think if everyone chips in it wouldn't be too bad. I mean I would be willing to toss in a chunk of change to get us running smoothly again.

Interestingly I typed 'servers' into google and the first place I came across selling them had a price range from ~£200 up to ~£2000, with options of leasing the larger more expensive ones instead of outright buying them. Certainly worth considering in my opinion.

http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/

Argus Fairbrass Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:52 pm

We need a Steampunk version of this....

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2K6nZo/www.home-designing.com/2010/12/wikileaks-servers-sweden

With a brassy Dr Evil at the helm! Twisted Evil

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