It did mess up the routine a little. Ended up spending the day with my family, they seem like nice people...
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I think it was either a group of Russian hackers, or maybe one Bulgarian ............ :p
That's the second time I have been suspected of being the culprit. I am not guilty. I want my lawyer. :gaah:
Yes - perhaps you could refer him to the Service Level Agreement and how a Sev 1, site down ticket could remain unanswered for over 24 hours...the penalties will be severe indeed....as a matter of fact, it may warrant you being suspended from using Clubman Pinaud for a month...and that means even the Pinaud Vegetal!! ;)
Occasionally the forum software/database needs to be updated/upgraded or go into maintenance mode. Either way there's always going to be a downtime regardless as the forum needs to be offline. There can always be hardware issues too regarding the server. This is not a PC or Mac update that automatically downloads, updates, reboots after a few minutes and you're done.
Fair enough, my good sir.
I just remembered something while reading your post, about the downtime from about a week ago. The blacksmithing forum that I lurk on was also down during the same period. I suspected it was a problem with vBulletin. But I could not find any official information about "server status", etc. (Kind of like the Xbox Live support site has a page dedicated to up/down status of various services.) So all I was left with was speculation, and not much to fill the boredom with...
Maybe the real reason why it was down is like a quote I read by Allan Watts years ago, he was referring to Buddhism, "Those who say don't know, those who know don't say." :thinking:
Just a simple SNAFU. Happens all the time when dealing with computer systems.