Server Downtime (1/19/2009)

Thunderfall · Jan 19, 2009

The site was down for about 4 hours today, from 5:37 PM ET to 9:37 PM ET.

Our host Atomic Gamer was creating an index on the server which should help with the forum performance. However, the database became corrupt for some reason and they had to repair it.

Looks like everything is working again now...

Sorry for the downtime and inconvenience!

CivFanatics.Net Blog

During the downtime, I setup a WordPress blog over at CivFanatics.Net. In the future we will be posting status updates there during site downtime or maintenance.

Please bookmark this page: http://www.civfanatics.net/

PeteAtoms · Jan 19, 2009

Bookmarked. Thanks for the update

RoboPig · Jan 19, 2009

Is this the cause of the massive multiple posts in some threads?
Like this one?

EDIT: Never mind, seems to be unique to that thread.

Thunderfall · Jan 19, 2009

Well, when Atomic Gamer first started creating the index, they didn't bring the server down. Browsing the forum was ok but it made making posts very slow. People probably clicked the submit button multiple times. To speed up the index creation, they later shut down the web server.

PS: I have deleted the dup posts in that thread.

Bigfoot3814 · Jan 19, 2009

That's excellent. Thanks TF.

LucyDuke · Jan 20, 2009

Oh, a blog will be great. Thanks TF!

againsttheflow · Jan 20, 2009

Thanks TF, that'll be useful.

Sharwood · Jan 20, 2009

RoboPig said:
Is this the cause of the massive multiple posts in some threads?
Like this one?

EDIT: Never mind, seems to be unique to that thread.

Oh, it wasn't unique to that thread, Cheezy did one sometime this morning or last night where he quintuple-posted. Then a mod deleted four of them, making my subsequent comment make no sense. There's likely a few more bobbing around here and there.

ori · Jan 20, 2009

the database seems to have problems with posts posted just prior to the downtime - this poster has 5 posts in the thread (had I should say :mischief:

) however his postcount only shows 2... Apparently it does not register the ones made during the indexing while the forum was online.

edit: and now after deleting the double posts he has 0 postcount :crazyeye:

link

S.ilver · Jan 20, 2009

Thanks for the heads up TF. I figured it was something on the host side. I ended up quad posting a report for an SG, but ori helped me out with it, so all is well.

dutchfire · Jan 20, 2009

ori said:
the database seems to have problems with posts posted just prior to the downtime - this poster has 5 posts in the thread (had I should say ) however his postcount only shows 2... Apparently it does not register the ones made during the indexing while the forum was online.

edit: and now after deleting the double posts he has 0 postcount link

Could someone get a negative postcount that way? That'd be cool.

Padma · Jan 20, 2009

Postcount is always a non-negative integer.

LucyDuke · Jan 20, 2009

I think PC should be available in thirds.

Server Downtime (1/19/2009)

Thunderfall

Administrator

PeteAtoms

FormulaRandom

RoboPig

Deity

Thunderfall

Administrator

Bigfoot3814

Deity

LucyDuke

staring at the clock

againsttheflow

unpolitically uncorrect

Sharwood

Rich, doctor nephew

ori

Repair Guy

S.ilver

Emperor

dutchfire

Deity

Padma

the Absent Admin

LucyDuke

staring at the clock

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