Forum Down Time

Atrocities · #1 December 10th, 2003, 09:35 AM

I was just wondering why the forum has been down over the weekends for the Last two weeks and can we expect this trend of "maintenance" to continue?

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 December 10th, 2003, 09:51 AM

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Please note: The board was down this weekend due to an upgrade to allow for scenario downloads. However due to the time this will take this has been put on hold indefinetly.

Thanks.

from the forum list.

Atrocities · #3 December 10th, 2003, 09:57 AM

And there it is. Thank Narf, I was wondering how long it would take someone to post. Not long at all.

(Less than 5 minutes.) A record.

Roanon · #4 December 10th, 2003, 11:25 AM

[quote]Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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Please note: The board was down this weekend due to an upgrade to allow for scenario downloads. However due to the time this will take this has been put on hold indefinetly.

Thanks.

Means they have taken down the board for more than 2 days and did not accomplish ANYTHING?
And they estimate more than 2 days downtime for an upgrade???? What are they running these Boards on, a Sony Playstation? Or a Nintendo Gameboy? Are they planning to copy bit by bit via floppy disks when upgrading?

I know it is a lot of data, but you can copy a lot of data in 2 days, especially when taking the server offline. Implementing a pre-programmed update should also not take that long.

Roanon
*wonders what really has been going on*

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 December 10th, 2003, 06:31 PM

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(Less than 5 minutes.) A record.

16 minutes.

Atrocities can't count!

of course he can't count! he's an egg!

[ December 10, 2003, 16:31: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

geoschmo · #6 December 10th, 2003, 06:50 PM

EDIT: Statment withdrawn.

[ December 10, 2003, 18:36: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

se5a · #7 December 10th, 2003, 07:19 PM

so umnn why dont they test it on a coppy of the forums first?

Fyron · #8 December 10th, 2003, 08:35 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
It's not as simple as copying data. The file upload code for the forum was specially written and configured for this forum. The latest update of the forum broke that so it has to be rewritten, and tested, and rewritten again, etc. Sometimes that's a quick process, other times it most definetly is not.

It is quite easy to test the code you are writing on a copy of the forum. You do not have to write it on the actual server. In fact, that is about the worst way to go about it, using the actual forum server as your debugging platform. The code should be written and tested first on a dummy platform, so that it takes little time to get it working on the real server.

geoschmo · #9 December 10th, 2003, 08:38 PM

I withdrew my statement because I have no knowledge of why the forum has been down. I was suggesting a possible hypothesis, but basically talking out my arse. I am confident knowing Richard as I do that it was something more complicated then simply "copying data" or it wouldn't have been down as long as it was, but I have no idea.

Geoschmo

Fyron · #10 December 10th, 2003, 08:40 PM

On that point I would be inclined to agree with you.