Archive for the ‘Downtime Issues’ Category
Downtime expected around 0000 GMT tomorrow
Around 0000 GMT tomorrow(ie, September 14th), we’ll be shifting to a new host(namely HostDime.com), so we are expecting a few minutes of downtime. The board will be disabled prior to the host shift and will be re-enabled again after the shifting of files and databases complete.
We are sorry for any inconveniences this might cause.
Update : Shift completed with minimal downtime.
AFF is back up after a hardware failure
Our host has recovered from the hard disk failure and all data has been restored.
Around 3 PM IST(GMT+5:30) yesterday, one of the hard drives of the server on which AFF is hosted , crashed, leading to the unavailability of the forum. I immediately pointed the domain to another host and put up a notice regarding the HDD failure. Fortunately, the hard drives at the data center were in a RAID configuration, and the data was mirrored. Immediately after the HDD failure, a new HDD was inserted into the RAID array and the data was copied to it. Since around 1 terabyte of data was lost, restoring it took quite some time and finally the hard drive was put online around 3 AM IST.
This whole fiasco lead to a massive downtime of 12 hours and I apologise for any inconvenience caused. Now everything is back to normal and the server is running optimally.
AFF Down?
I can’t seem to access the forum now.
Once it loaded, but without the images. So it’s most probably a server error.
I’ll look into this after I come back from school today.
Update:
The forum is back up again! 