Forums Outage 5-6-06

[Pharaoh Atem]

i was home all day bored out of my mind anyone else

i worked on some new sigs by the way anyone know what happen

[ShadowMaat]

Nope. Got a lot of reading done, composed something to post in a thread, did more reading, watched the new Doctor Who (*happy sigh*), went through the yard with a sharp stick poking holes into all the mole tunnels, helped get the screens on the windows, read some more (it's a looong book) and posted on a couple of other bboards. Fun, busy day.

[Greg]

Ok guys we had a DB-related outage. Can we please refrain from mass-barrage of new threads and also emails to my personal mailbox demanding that the forums be brought back up?

We can only work so quickly, and unfortunatelly due to the failure of our normal monitoring systems we were not aware of the outage until a short while ago.

[Greg]

the Forums Alpha-site was also introduced a few minutes ago too.

[ShadowMaat]

Saw that. I'm waiting for someone to start a WSOD Memorial Thread.

[Pharaoh Atem]

right now everything is working fine i've already got some green and a couple pm's

[Greg]

Now to download the 3,785 "database errors" emails that vBulletin sent me.....

[Pharaoh Atem]

you mean the ones you get when people see the database erroe white page?

you get emails when people see that page?

[Greg]

yep one every visit.

[Pharaoh Atem]

woudln't there be a way to redirect users to the alpha site

i'm a little guilty of that myself sorry

[ShadowMaat]

I assume that's what's in place NOW, but it doesn't work retroactively.

[gatelover12]

Now to download the 3,785 "database errors" emails that vBulletin sent me.....

Yeah, you can't see the IP addys of the people who constantly refreshed can you? *looks worried*

[Greg]

there's still close to 7,000 emails on the mailserver, looks like its going to be a busy email day.

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

Well, that's got to suck. Man, I feel sorry for ya, Greg.

[Lt. Colonel Ryu Gaia]

Oy vey! I pity thee, Greg. Honestly, I do.