The Animorphs Fan Forum Blog » Downtime Issues http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:05:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Downtime expected around 0000 GMT tomorrow http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/09/13/downtime-expected-around-0000-gmt-tomorrow/ http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/09/13/downtime-expected-around-0000-gmt-tomorrow/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:36:53 +0000 Ellimist http://animorphsfanforum.com/blog/?p=26 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.

]]> http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/09/13/downtime-expected-around-0000-gmt-tomorrow/feed/ 0 AFF is back up after a hardware failure http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/07/07/aff-is-back-up-after-a-hardware-failure/ http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/07/07/aff-is-back-up-after-a-hardware-failure/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:32:06 +0000 Ellimist http://animorphsfanforum.com/blog/?p=17 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.

]]> http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/07/07/aff-is-back-up-after-a-hardware-failure/feed/ 1 AFF Down? http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/04/29/aff-down/ http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/04/29/aff-down/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:42:48 +0000 Ellimist http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/?p=14 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! :)

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