Taluntain
Mon, 29th Mar '04, 2:29pm
There's been about half a day's worth of downtime today. This always happens just when I'm asleep or not near a computer, it seems. :(
Anyway, we're back now. I'm still investigating why the monitoring system didn't page me when everything went down. Thanks to all who sent messages to my cell phone about it. Unfortunately, I slept through all of them, and did some work in the morning and didn't even look at my cell until about an hour ago. *sigh*
fade
Mon, 29th Mar '04, 3:38pm
A random down time is better than the DoS attack the alfa forums are getting. And don't worry about it, isn't that big of a deal if it is down for a bit while you sleep, well, maybe it is. ;)
Wordplay
Mon, 29th Mar '04, 6:06pm
Noticed it. Thought for a while that there might had been a RIAA attack and that whole SP had been thrown to the darkest corner of court room :p
david w
Mon, 29th Mar '04, 9:44pm
This always happens just when I'm asleep or not near a computer, it seems.Have you ever considered sleeping *at* your computer? With a special program designed to emit high-pitched whines the moment the site goes down?
Taluntain
Mon, 29th Mar '04, 10:40pm
That'd be easily done, but I don't want to run the machine 24/7... nor sleep next to it while it's on. I get more than enough radiation during the day.
Anyway, as it turned out our host is still working on their monitoring system, so they "can't guarantee it will work". Well, so I noticed. I guess I'll have to install my own when I get the time...
The server went down because it ran out of RAM. How or why beats me, however. I checked the load just a few hours before it went down and it was fine...
Faerus Stoneslammer
Tue, 30th Mar '04, 6:50am
Down again eh? Was it for the same reason as before? Or has some all new problem arisen?
Taluntain
Wed, 31st Mar '04, 12:13am
Still the same thing... Check the front page SP Happenings for more info.
Taluntain
Wed, 31st Mar '04, 6:44pm
I've started running the PHP accelerator for UBB in an effort to bring the memory usage down. You might notice some links on the board look a bit different due to that.
Hacken Slash
Wed, 31st Mar '04, 8:57pm
Two words, Tal...
al Queda
Or is that one word?
david w
Wed, 31st Mar '04, 9:47pm
I think al Queda have got better things to do than crash the SP website.
Or was that some kind of joke I didn't get?
Wordplay
Wed, 31st Mar '04, 9:58pm
No, I think too that it was al Queda. Damn internet terrorism. :toofar:
~Allah!
*Goes blow himself off*