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Title: Site Down?
Post by: Da_Blitz on February 06, 2007, 02:36:46 am: Was it just me or was the site down for about 4 days just recentlly, i havent een an anouncment but from my end it looks like there were no dns entries (ie kept doing a lookup), then the site came back up and i got a blank white page

anyone see anything simmilar or was i the only one without my oesf fix
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Jon_J on February 06, 2007, 02:52:45 am: it's been down since feb 1 around midnight. A lot of people gathered at tyrannozaurus in the meantime.
Title: Site Down?
Post by: danboid on February 06, 2007, 03:48:25 am: Must... View......... New................. POSTS!

Ahhh! Thats better! The world of portable hyper-geekdom returns!

So what was the reason for the downtime this time mr offroadgeek? Isn't this forum being hosted by ibiblio now? I would've thought it hard to get any bigger than that so whats the battle plan to try and prevent further extended outages?
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Da_Blitz on February 06, 2007, 04:34:48 am: i didnt relise there were other places to hang, nice to know
Title: Site Down?
Post by: speculatrix on February 06, 2007, 04:50:51 am: yeah, these outages without warning are troubling. at least we have antikz's site to fall back on.
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Da_Blitz on February 06, 2007, 04:59:01 am: what about setting up a mirror, is it feasable. i mean how much trafic are we looking at here
Title: Site Down?
Post by: speculatrix on February 06, 2007, 05:15:20 am: Quote
what about setting up a mirror, is it feasable. i mean how much trafic are we looking at here
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=153301\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I think the problem is more about how to replicate the database that stores all the postings, rather than mirror the web pages. Taking an HTML snapshot is quite inefficient, and also loses a lot of the meta data, and also is much less useful for searching because the search DB would see all the page "fluff" as well as the messages.

I did ask in the forum forum itself about doing snapshots but didn't get an answer, which is why I am worried that the operators are losing interest or finding it too much of a burden.
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Meanie on February 06, 2007, 06:12:38 am: Quote
Was it just me or was the site down for about 4 days just recentlly, i havent een an anouncment but from my end it looks like there were no dns entries (ie kept doing a lookup), then the site came back up and i got a blank white page

anyone see anything simmilar or was i the only one without my oesf fix
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it has been a terrible few days.... i needed to get my oesf fix too and post stuff to the forums but there was no oesf to post too ... what a relief its back ... need to make up for the lost days and do some extra posting
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Da_Blitz on February 06, 2007, 08:27:32 am: yeah, i meant database replication and not the http stuff as thats the easy part

it would have to be snapshots as well because i imagine that trying to do realtime updates to the backup server would be painful, not to mention the remerging when the primary goes back up
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Greg2 on February 06, 2007, 11:03:04 am: Quote
yeah, these outages without warning are troubling. at least we have antikz's site to fall back on.
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=153298\")
It was announced... somewhat

[a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20998&view=findpost&p=151854]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=151854[/url]
Title: Site Down?
Post by: brashley46 on February 06, 2007, 04:05:52 pm: Quote
Must... View......... New................. POSTS!

Ahhh! Thats better! The world of portable hyper-geekdom returns!

So what was the reason for the downtime this time mr offroadgeek? Isn't this forum being hosted by ibiblio now? I would've thought it hard to get any bigger than that so whats the battle plan to try and prevent further extended outages?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=153288\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Now, now, let's not complain too hard, or offroadgeek might wanna get paid for this.

Not that I would find say $5 a month too steep, I already pay $12 a quarter at sff.net.

I probably ought to contribute here once in a while too, ne?
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Da_Blitz on February 07, 2007, 01:53:23 am: is there a way to contribute?, its febuary so its my anual "donate to oss" month, funny considering its the first time ive done it

but serioslly, i have no problems sending a bit to oss projects, its alot cheaper than most software on the market even after donations.
Title: Site Down?
Post by: Greg2 on February 07, 2007, 10:46:34 am: Quote
is there a way to contribute?
The top right corner under the date:
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/ (http://www.zaurususergroup.org/)
Title: Site Down?
Post by: sdjf on February 07, 2007, 11:42:30 am: offroadgeek did warn us, as Greg2 mentioned, but I don't think it dawned on him that oesf is so very important to us and that it would be nice if he or another admin could post something somewhere that google could find so we'd know what's happening. And I remember cringing when I saw the announcement, wondering when and for how long.

But when it happened and I googled "oesf down" and got nothing...maybe next time someone could do this, either at someone else's forum, or one of the irc.freenode.net channels that gets spidered.

sdjf