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Title: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: one-eyed on June 16, 2010, 08:24:46 AM

Looks like we're finally back ..... Phew!

Our host was migrating the whole site to a new server and one of the tables belonging to the forum became severely corrupted which put us out of action for virtually 3 days  :scream. As the problem was at their end there was nothing we could do about it to fix it.

The site should have been back up last night but another bug appeared which thankfully after a bit of investigation on the SMF forum and some basic knowledge of the MySQL language I was able to fix myself.

Many thanks should go to WP for getting the forum back online after "discussions" with our host.

At the moment the forum looks different in the default colours and theme of SMF but I'll fix that later on when I get some time.

Thanks to everyone for their emails of concern and their patience.


Cheers,

WP and MT.

Title: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: Ramps on June 16, 2010, 10:10:21 AM

the colors are not to bad. just maybe needs a couple of tiger logos. anyway its good that the forums back.

Title: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: one-eyed on June 16, 2010, 10:20:56 AM

There's still some issues we are dealing with such as a problem with posting new topics and some old threads "missing" but it's working as far as posting in existing threads. 

Title: Re: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: FNM on July 13, 2010, 05:43:50 PM

The site's going down heaps my end
Is anyone else having problems?

Title: Re: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: one-eyed on July 13, 2010, 05:54:30 PM

Yep the "Internal server error" message has been occurring since Sunday. Sunday it was affected for 6 hours (3-9pm and then once again at 10pm). Yesterday it seemed to correct itself (at least I didn't have a problem using the forum yesterday). Today the error message has happened quite a few times which is frustrating. We have contacted the site's host and we are in discussion with them. So please bear with us folks.

Title: Re: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: FNM on July 13, 2010, 06:27:43 PM

Quote from: one-eyed on July 13, 2010, 05:54:30 PM

Yep the "Internal server error" message has been occurring since Sunday. Sunday it was affected for 6 hours (3-9pm and then once again at 10pm). Yesterday it seemed to correct itself (at least I didn't have a problem using the forum yesterday). Today the error message has happened quite a few times which is frustrating. We have contacted the site's host and we are in discussion with them. So please bear with us folks.

Thanks One Eyed  :-X

Title: Re: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: one-eyed on July 14, 2010, 05:53:36 PM

Apologies again for the interruptions today folks. We are still dealing with the issue with our hosts  :-\.

Title: Re: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: one-eyed on July 24, 2010, 07:55:03 PM

Apologies again for the hour interruption tonight folks. We are still dealing with the issue with our host. We are apparently and suddenly too popular so to minimise our "hits" we've made the forum members only for the time being until the issue is finally resolved.

Title: Re: Site Interruption - database error - we're finally back
Post by: Penelope on July 24, 2010, 10:32:05 PM

OE, seriously mate, when it's up for renewal, you need a new host.