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Down Time?
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:05 pm
by Charles256
That was really weird. Forum was down all morning. Any news from moderators on what the devil happened?
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:53 pm
by pickle
It seems that the forums were actually down since Friday. We don't as of yet know what happened.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:01 pm
by Charles256
hm.It's okay. I wrote on my blog to switch things up. I mean to write on it more but you know how it gets. Before you know it it's been six months.. Or is that just me?

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:22 am
by Charles256
so that was a whole bunch of fun....
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:57 am
by JayBird
We're back (for now).
Im not sure what the issue was, but we are currently working on some upgrades and converting to phpBB3.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:06 am
by JAB Creations
The site was down for at least a solid day. You could create a mirror domain name and emulate the site there and only have about an hour's downtime for migrating the most current database versus doing it all using one domain name. It hurts my Zombie needs for brains when Devnet goes down.

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:13 am
by matthijs
One day? Make that three. Was it again a dos attack on the server?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:15 am
by JAB Creations
I know it was down twice if not three times? It's been back up a couple times in between. Maybe you were really unlucky to check only when it was down. I have been checking once every few hours.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:18 am
by Charles256
telling you. I been posting on my forums like twice a day just to pass the time.

i'd post then refresh devnet. I was ALMOST excited when it came back up today. Set up PHPBB3 on mine and I like the new admin interface. It's different but you get used to it.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:20 am
by JayBird
Charles256 wrote:telling you. I been posting on my forums like twice a day just to pass the time.

i'd post then refresh devnet. I was ALMOST excited when it came back up today. Set up PHPBB3 on mine and I like the new admin interface. It's different but you get used to it.
Yeah, it is good. Loads better than the current admin panel.
We've actually had devnet running on phpBB3 behind the scenes for a few months now. Now it has gone Gold, we are ready to release it.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:33 am
by matthijs
Haven't seen phpbb3, but as long as it has this theme (silver/blue it's called?), it's ok with me.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:25 pm
by Kieran Huggins
So was it another DDOS attack? or did someone unplug the router to charge their cell phone or something? Inquiring minds and all that.
Also, should we be be looking for other hosting? I can't remember a time when 3 days of downtime was ever acceptable in a host.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:53 pm
by feyd
We've already lined up separate hosting. Whether we transition to it or not, I can't say.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:27 pm
by shiznatix
just no luck with hosting eh?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:31 pm
by Benjamin
Seems like it's still barely able to stay up.