As some of you may have noticed over the past couple of hours, forums have been unaccessible. This occured where the database server crashed and failed to start up again. Although a simple problem to fix, the notification systems failed at the same time. So although the forums reacted in the correct manner, bringing up messages in place of errors, we were unaware that there were any problems.
To make up for this down time, all forums have been made ad-free for the next 48 hours. Further to this, I will be ammeneding the databases auto-repair procedure to ensure that it does not encounter this particular fault again.
I was wondering what was up. Shall we spam your GMail next time just in case? xD
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I was wondering what was up. Shall we spam your GMail next time just in case? xD
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The notification which went to my email account worked fine, it's the one that's supposed to go to my phone and wake me up which didn't arrive
*calls Ross*
Dreg: Hey Sexy, time to wakie up
Ross: O.o STALKERR! *thorws phone out window*
-.- okie so maybe someone else should call
*calls Ross*
Dreg: Hey Sexy, time to wakie up
Ross: O.o STALKERR! *thorws phone out window*
-.- okie so maybe someone else should call
LOL!!!
Yeah I was quite worried, I was working on my forum, at least I saved the info, I went to refresh and it said page not found.
So I was like O_O but then several minutes later I saw that message on the screen, so I was like. "Yeah I saw this before.. Nothing to worry about then."
The only thing I would be actually worried about is if vF was no longer a forum service. I would be really devastated.
Glad to see its back up.
*calls Ross*
Dreg: Hey Sexy, time to wakie up
Ross: O.o STALKERR! *thorws phone out window*
-.- okie so maybe someone else should call
He's probably blacklisted itI would've called, but it was during the night (i think) so i didn't have a clue it happened
It happened at 12:37 AM CST for me.
Good that VF is back - I got scared for a bit as well
I didn't notice till the forums were down until after the message was put up, so I didn't have to really worry about losing anything
Haha, Rossy, the notification system didn't completely fail; it was just delayed by 3 and a half hours. I got the message shortly after 5am.
I didn't even noticed the forums were down
I didn't even noticed the forums were down
Fortunately the majority of the down-time was during the middle of the night for most users.
Haha, Rossy, the notification system didn't completely fail; it was just delayed by 3 and a half hours. I got the message shortly after 5am.
The message came up in 5 minutes for me!
How did it take 3.5 hours for you?
Haha, Rossy, the notification system didn't completely fail; it was just delayed by 3 and a half hours. I got the message shortly after 5am.
The message came up in 5 minutes for me!
How did it take 3.5 hours for you?
He's referring to the text message which gets sent to his phone when a server goes offline.
Oohhh I see.