Thread: What Happened to SRP being down for so long?

Originally Posted by Maximilian

Did you guys get withdrawal symptoms from not being able to use the forum? Did it mess up your daily routine? :-)

It did mess up the routine a little. Ended up spending the day with my family, they seem like nice people...

I think it was either a group of Russian hackers, or maybe one Bulgarian ............

Originally Posted by Martin103

I think the newly appointed moderator was playing with something he wasnt suppose to.... and then the site is down for a couple days.

Hirlau and his new delete button eh? Done gone deleted the whole site...

Originally Posted by Grazor

It did mess up the routine a little. Ended up spending the day with my family, they seem like nice people...

Bob

That's the second time I have been suspected of being the culprit. I am not guilty. I want my lawyer.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

That's the second time I have been suspected of being the culprit. I am not guilty. I want my lawyer.

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!!

Originally Posted by Crawler

It was down about a week ago, as well. For like half a day, right?

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."

Just a simple SNAFU. Happens all the time when dealing with computer systems.