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Statement on the recent downtime
Posted by: Cary ()
Date: November 29, 2007 05:16PM

This website was unavailable for several hours the past two nights (11/27 and 11/28).

The interruption was caused by another service running on the same server that suddenly became extremely popular. The popularity spiked the load on the server to the point that this forum's software was no longer able to communicate with the backend database.

A server failing just as things become popular is unacceptable and as such the server will be replaced with one that can handle the load. There will be additional downtime either Friday or Saturday night between midnight and 6am for this site to be transitioned to the new server.

If you have any questions please ask them in this thread or email me at cary@fairfaxunderground.com.

Thanks and enjoy!

- Cary (the admin)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2007 03:48PM by Cary.

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Re: Statement on the recent downtime
Posted by: KeepOnTruckin ()
Date: November 29, 2007 05:47PM

Must you do it Friday or Sat. night? Seems like that would be a peak time.

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Re: Statement on the recent downtime
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: November 29, 2007 11:19PM

lol what popular service are we missing out on?

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Re: Statement on the recent downtime
Posted by: Inquiringminds ()
Date: December 01, 2007 11:51AM

"lol what popular service are we missing out on?"

Ooooh..Do tell, do tell........

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Re: Statement on the recent downtime
Posted by: Gravis ()
Date: December 02, 2007 12:55AM

by service, what he really meant was a daemon. service is Windows terminology, daemon is Unix/Linux terminology.

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[url
http://www.linfo.org/daemon.html[/url]]A daemon is a type of program on Unix-like operating systems that runs unobtrusively in the background, rather than under the direct control of a user, waiting to be activated by the occurrence of a specific event or condition.

when a daemon becomes popular, it means it's being heavily tasked and takes more CPU and RAM than usual.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."095042938540

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Re: Statement on the recent downtime
Posted by: Suburbanite ()
Date: December 04, 2007 09:53AM

Oh I love it when you talk all geek-like.

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