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j_ung
Feb 18, 2009, 3:20 PM
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Hi all,
The hamster hiccupped last night and we went offline for a little. Luckily, we brought the new back-up online Friday, so it was there waiting, BUT it wasn't as smooth a transition as I might have liked.
We're doing more today to make sure the back-up can handle what it needs to and to get the main machine running like it should. In the meantime, you might hit a slow page load or two, especially as the west-coast people wake up and start getting online.
Jay
(This post was edited by j_ung on Feb 23, 2009, 4:21 PM)
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qwert
Feb 18, 2009, 4:41 PM
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I do not know what to do with hiccups, but maybe you take better care of your hamster?
here is something to get you started.
;)
qwert
Just when i tried to post this, the hamster told me about a "zero sized object".
stuff like this has to be served with a "thats what she said". can you please teach this to the hamster?
(This post was edited by qwert on Feb 18, 2009, 4:52 PM)
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j_ung
Feb 18, 2009, 5:01 PM
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And I used think the fuckers were cute. 
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j_ung
Feb 18, 2009, 5:29 PM
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Ooookaaay... we're back. The Gossamer boys just put 12 more gigs of ram into the back up, which is why were down for the last 15 minutes. Word is now they're going to work on the main.
It's hard to describe how un-thrilled I am, but they're working their asses off right now to stabilize the patient. Bear with us. There will undoubtedly be more hiccups today.
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rrrADAM
Feb 18, 2009, 5:39 PM
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I like the "Under Construction" ...
"Future site of rockclimbing.com" page.
I should have copied and saved it so I could post it here.
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j_ung
Feb 18, 2009, 5:51 PM
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Yer lucky. All I got was the standard error page.
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adatesman
Feb 18, 2009, 6:37 PM
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j_ung
Feb 18, 2009, 6:43 PM
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It should say: "Once and future home of..."
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wideguy
Feb 18, 2009, 6:49 PM
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GO LITTLEBUDDY!!!! GO!!!!!!!!!
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tigerlilly
Feb 18, 2009, 8:49 PM
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No more hooch for the rodent, ok?
Kathy 
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j_ung
Feb 18, 2009, 11:02 PM
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Hey, just an update that there is no update right now. I'm logging off for the night, but I'll check back in.
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chossmonkey
Feb 19, 2009, 1:17 AM
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j_ung wrote: Hey, just an update that there is no update right now. I'm logging off for the night, but I'll check back in.
When Jay is away the hamsters will play!!!!!
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truello
Feb 19, 2009, 1:34 AM
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Hamster must have run out of its red bull
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sungam
Feb 19, 2009, 2:21 AM
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Has that blocked some users from logging in?
User "corynauman" get's automatically logged out when he logs in.
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adatesman
Feb 19, 2009, 2:33 AM
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sungam
Feb 19, 2009, 2:39 AM
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adatesman wrote: sungam wrote: Has that blocked some users from logging in? User "corynauman" get's automatically logged out when he logs in. User "corynauman" appears to have gotten himself banzed, but I don't offhand know how or why.
Now that is funny.
BTW, he says "I am? for what? what'd I do?".
He wants to post about hitting IC and how he has no tent and /or enough rack.
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adatesman
Feb 19, 2009, 2:45 AM
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sungam
Feb 19, 2009, 2:54 AM
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Cool, he just left to go buy some food for tomorrow, but I can personally vouch for him not being a spidermonkey, though he is (to be perfectly honest) a badass climber.
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chossmonkey
Feb 19, 2009, 11:27 AM
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adatesman wrote: sungam wrote: adatesman wrote: sungam wrote: Has that blocked some users from logging in? User "corynauman" get's automatically logged out when he logs in. User "corynauman" appears to have gotten himself banzed, but I don't offhand know how or why. For serious? Now that is funny. BTW, he says "I am? for what? what'd I do?". He wants to post about hitting IC and how he has no tent and /or enough rack. Well, did a bit of digging since I recall something about a buddy of yours getting the banz and it seems he was a driveby victim of the spidermonkey fiasco due to his "poast" thread. Seems it wasn't clear he wasn't a new account of the monkey's so got the banz. Dropping the Blue a PM will probably clear it up.
Are you trying to get me and Bec banzd now?
As far as I know we have been "the monkeys" for the last forever.
j_ung PMed!!!!!
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j_ung
Feb 19, 2009, 4:56 PM
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sungam wrote: adatesman wrote: sungam wrote: Has that blocked some users from logging in? User "corynauman" get's automatically logged out when he logs in. User "corynauman" appears to have gotten himself banzed, but I don't offhand know how or why. For serious? Now that is funny. BTW, he says "I am? for what? what'd I do?". He wants to post about hitting IC and how he has no tent and /or enough rack.
 Convey my apologies. Should be fixed now.
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j_ung
Feb 19, 2009, 5:09 PM
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Okay, I have the official word.
Here's what happened:
1. The primary drive of the dropzone database server crashed and was not recoverable. It was an older server.
2. We fell over to our new back up.
3. The back-up could not handle the traffic well, and performance was poor during peak traffic times.
4. Yesterday, our developers upgraded the back up from 4 GB of ram, to 16 GB of ram, and performance improved. It has handled traffic for the last 24 hours or so without issue.
5. We upgraded the main hardware and RAM to give us protection from drive failures and additional performance improvements.
As of now, we're still on the back-up, which is working fine. Obviously, though, we need to switch back over to the main server. When that happens, there's going to be another outage for probably 20 minutes. This'll be around 4:30 PM Pacific time, Thursday.
Thanks all. I hate, hate, HATE the inconvenience all this caused. 
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truello
Feb 19, 2009, 5:16 PM
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Does that mean we'll have to actually work for 20 minutes? 
Wait, nm, there's redriverclimbing.com
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