Server Problems

27 Oct 2006

SH was running painfully slow from about 15:00 on Friday, it took a lot of time to identify the problem but we isolated it to the database cluster and the only way to resolve it was to restart M/Cluster, in doing that we got everything running ok, but it did have an unfortunate side effect of rolling the site back to how it was at 15:00 on Friday.
As a result we have total roll back with pm's and forum posts missing for the last 10 hours.
So what are we doing about it
We can't recover the data, we have known for a long time that M/Cluster is unstable, so much so that we haven't made any changes to the database structure for 4 months, you may ask why we didn't just move over to something else straight away, the answer is because we couldn't, what we did do was ask lots of questions and start setting up a new server array, its taken a long time to get the existing database working on the new servers but we are nearly there and should be moving over within a few weeks.

27 Oct 2006

:thumbup:
The first numpty to moan or claim they have lost a valuable PM promissing their only ever meet gets a virtual kick up the arse from yours truely lol

28 Oct 2006

Quote by sheddy
:thumbup:
The first numpty to moan or claim they have lost a valuable PM promissing their only ever meet gets a virtual kick up the arse from yours truely

What about my PM promising me a pick at the airport in a yellow Ferrari?? Does that count??
:lol: :lol:

28 Oct 2006

I have been sent a PM for a meet and it hasn't arrived!!!!!!!
This was the first one that said they would actually turn up, and you now say the PMs have been lost......nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Two years I have been waiting for this kind of PM and the server has to have gone down now!
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Dave_Notts
PS Sheddy- Someone had to :twisted:

28 Oct 2006

I'll re-post the suggestion to update the SH home page with a message to warn people that there are problems.

28 Oct 2006

Ahhhh, I thought I'd seen people post but now their posts are missing - now I know I'm not going loopy. lol

28 Oct 2006

Quote by masquerade
I'll re-post the suggestion to update the SH home page with a message to warn people that there are problems.

There was no point last night as the home page wouldn't load - mostly! Just seemed obvious that there were server problems.
dunno

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28 Oct 2006

Jags I think there were people (me included) who thought that it was their system. I got the home page and other pages were loading but very slowly - I'm a techy numpty and wouldn't have guessed that it was the server. :doh:

28 Oct 2006

To all those about to moanabout missing posts / pms etc.
Just remember there are a lot worse things going on in this world such as starvation, war, poverty etc etc etc.
So to loose 10 hours of posts etc to mcluster, is it really such a big deal?
Off to look at my mail box, and perv for missing pms.

28 Oct 2006

I wasn't moaning!! :shock: :shock:
COULD moan about missing friends though.... :cry: :cry:
kiss

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28 Oct 2006

Quote by Jags
I wasn't moaning!! :shock: :shock:
COULD moan about missing friends though.... :cry: :cry:
:kiss:

So could I, but some will be back later :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

28 Oct 2006

Quote by Freckledbird
Jags I think there were people (me included) who thought that it was their system. I got the home page and other pages were loading but very slowly - I'm a techy numpty and wouldn't have guessed that it was the server. :doh:

I thought that at first but after spending only a few minutes loading and browsing other sites it soon became obvious it was an SH issue and nothing to do with my system.
lol

28 Oct 2006

Quote by Jags
Jags I think there were people (me included) who thought that it was their system. I got the home page and other pages were loading but very slowly - I'm a techy numpty and wouldn't have guessed that it was the server. :doh:

I thought that at first but after spending only a few minutes loading and browsing other sites it soon became obvious it was an SH issue and nothing to do with my system.
lol

I didn't look anywhere else but my email account yesterday evening, or I might have spotted that too redface

28 Oct 2006

Quote by Freckledbird
Jags I think there were people (me included) who thought that it was their system. I got the home page and other pages were loading but very slowly - I'm a techy numpty and wouldn't have guessed that it was the server. :doh:

I thought that at first but after spending only a few minutes loading and browsing other sites it soon became obvious it was an SH issue and nothing to do with my system.
lol

I didn't look anywhere else but my email account yesterday evening, or I might have spotted that too redface

:dry: :dry:
kiss

28 Oct 2006

Quote by Sarah
To all those about to moan about missing posts / pms etc.
.

Can I moan about some of the ones that didn't get lost lol

28 Oct 2006

Quote by st3v3
... restart M/Cluster ...

Is McLuster one of those Scottish perves we keep hearing about? confused

28 Oct 2006

I wouldn't moan about any of my missing ones. It's just less bollocks from me to have to endure biggrin

28 Oct 2006

Quote by northwest-cpl
... restart M/Cluster ...

Is McLuster one of those Scottish perves we keep hearing about? confused

:shock: :shock: :shock:
Who you calling a perve??!!
Ok, fair enough..... the cap fits!! lol

:lol: :lol:
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28 Oct 2006

... not too bothered about the missing posts etc and assomeone said already, there are more important things going on around us than SH postings ...
... Still, have to ask cos I'm curious, but doesn't this database have such thing as online backups and point in time recovery? cool

28 Oct 2006

Quote by northwest-cpl
... restart M/Cluster ...

Is McLuster one of those Scottish perves we keep hearing about? confused

don't you mean scotch! bolt

28 Oct 2006

Quote by da69ve
... restart M/Cluster ...

Is McLuster one of those Scottish perves we keep hearing about? confused

don't you mean scotch! bolt

:smackbottom::smackbottom:
lol

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