Quote from: KrishnathSee, I told you it was a server crash.

/me is clairvoyant.

Troll think dragon is hallucinating again.

Quote from: TrollTroll think dragon is hallucinating again.

You know, you might be right.

But then again, so did the oracle at Delphi.

Quote from: BullittIncluding me?

especially you.    the husband is often the wife's best and easiest target...

Yep, we appear to be down again. I should find out why and when it will be back up shortly.

oy, good luck!  hope you don't have to reboot like Limper did.

We're back. It was just a short server crash.

And we're back down. I doubt this will take long to resolve.

Hopefully in another day or so we'll be moved onto our own server.

Yeah it was there and then it was gone for me.

I had no problem earlier today with it.  I was on until 2 pm EST this afternoon.

could it be that you are getting more activity with the dissolution of NTL that is causing the problem?  it seems that growing forums have growing pains.  

Quote from: BOZcould it be that you are getting more activity with the dissolution of NTL that is causing the problem?  it seems that growing forums have growing pains.  

Yeah but any recent increases in the userbase has been minimal in teh past week or two.  If fact at this point THe Rpg Site has surpassed SO in membership.

it's not so much the adding new members that can be a problem, but the activity level of both new and old members that can tip the scales.

i suspect, though i could be wrong, that pooka expected some numbers and was ready for it, and had enough experience at this sort of thing to know how to prepare for that.  not saying that bullitt doesn't, but he may not have been fully prepared for a spike in activity.

OK, here's a rundown on what's going on.

The old SO was on the Nothingland server. When Nothingland was going down, I learned that we were being evicted. I was about to throw in the towel, but then a friend of mine who works for an ISP offered me web space to keep it going. At that time I decided to go with VBulletin. Day 1 of the thing being in place, traffic exploded and great quantities of *ahem* attachments were posted. The rest of the week goes by and I looked at the stats. We had already gone three times the amount of space we were allowed, and the server usage was higher than we had agreed upon. I had Cravin ask about getting more space, and the answer was a resounding no, unless we wanted to pay good money for it.

So, I pruned the *ahem* attachments down to the a few threads that I personally found to my liking, and then got to the business of what to do with the site. I opted to buy a server, and Ebayed off some of the more valuable books in my collection - included in this was the ultra rare Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium. Anyway, between that and a number of donations from some generous community members, we had the money to buy a server. I bought the server, and the only reason that what happened today was possible is because the server isn't configured yet. It should be on the thing by next week (hopefully), and at that point we supposedly won't be limited by the interferance of the ISP server admins.

man, good luck.

Down to backup the database. Posts made on SO after this backup will be lost.

And now it's good and down. The DNS got updated before work was finished.