Its worse than that its Dead Jim !!!!

Post by **Orkney** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:30 am

Where does this board go when it dissapears? anyone know what the problem is or where it stems from?
Seems to be doing it with regular frequency lately.
Time to change hosting maybe ?

Post by **chickenjohn** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:19 am

Yes, agreed, it was not working for me since (and including) Sunday.

Post by **steve4063** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:22 am

i crashed for me sat lunch time and i've just managed to get it back and its tuesday morning 7.30

i've felt so lost without it lol

Post by **Orkney** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:29 am

Well its back then !!! At last ! hmm but for how long who knows?
Crazy thing is i discivered by email that even the mods & web editors were in the dark as of yesterday!

A serious question or two to the powers that be - something for the AGM in fact ...

What caused the outage?

The site & board often dissapear for half a day a week, whats the explanation for that?

The site is registered and hosted with a german company, wouldnt a move to a more reliable UK based company be a wise move?
At least one that has an easily accesible status page which informs people of any problems.

Boards & sites just shouldnt be dissapearing with such frequency in this day and age, its lousy for those of us that use it often and its a very poor advertisement for the club given that it's a potential source of new members.

Post by **bpr81a** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:38 am

Which web editor did you ask? I've been chasing the hosying company since it went dow, as I've had no access either. The problem was with the server at their end, but I don't know the details. I have already informed them of yje frequent outqges and they are investigating and monitoring the server.

It took quite a while to find a host that would provide the bandwidth we use at a sensible price and I have no intention of trying to move at the moment.

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:44 am

Which mods did you ask ? and remember Jon like the rest of us deals with the problems in his spare time.

Post by **Orkney** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:53 am

It was Bill -
There are some good UK hosts who host high BW sites without problems - most have a small anual surcharge for increased BW or you can go dedicated or priority server route to - its just doing the maths on the actual traffic.

Be more than happy to get the best 3 prices & options for you if i'm furnished with the traffic details of the current site over the last 12 months.

Also add that be happy to help out in any way possible site or board wise - it used to be my job

Mention it as spend lot of time online and use the board as a little light relief from the mundane day to day work, ergo probably tend to look at it more than most on a daily basis and probably have more time than most to spare.

Post by **Judge** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:00 am

bpr81a wrote:Which web editor did you ask?

Me, and unfortunately no-one had advised me what was going on

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:11 am

I could also ask around for hosting quotes. I used to work for an ISP and still have contacts in the industry...

Post by **chickenjohn** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:37 am

The message board was broken again for me for the last few hours.

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:47 am

It came back for a bit then went down again.

Post by **Orkney** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:52 am

It came back for a bit then went down again.

Frank Bruno in his heyday

Maybe they just backed it up and chucked it on another server? do hope it doesnt keep happening though

Post by **bpr81a** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:36 pm

I'm keepnig an eye on it - there is more to life than the message board though

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:21 pm

lol @ jon

I've missed the forum the last few days, as I usually spend a lot of time fiddling about on it looking for tips and advice. I think it's pretty reliable actually! hardly any down-time, which is great for such a busy forum

wibble

Post by **MoggyTech** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:35 pm

Strange thing is, when the board was not working, I got no timeout from IE/explorer. There was a connection, but it was only running at about 100bytes per minute, so nothing would get displayed. Seems strange that a hosting ISP company could have a hub/router problem that went un-noticed for more than 2 days. Most decent ISP providers have alarm triggers that will flag a system failure.

There's a bit of a bitching thread on A Series.com about this board and it dates back a long time, so it would appear that this is an ongoing problem.

Post by **mickessex** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:16 pm

I use the same German company for my hosting. I've only ever had one outage which lasted a couple of hours. In my eyes, not bad over the 5 years I have been using them. It may just be the server the site is on. If the site is on a shared server, maybe another site is causing the problems with the server.

Mick

Post by **alex_holden** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:46 am

It just went down for a few minutes and when it came back it'd lost track of which topics I hadn't read yet. I'm sure was doing something like this before the last provider switch. Maybe it's actually a bug in the very old version of PNphpBB2.

Post by **chickenjohn** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:15 am

Yes, it was up and down all yesterday, and for me too the "unread messages since last visit" are all lost.

Post by **Orkney** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:21 am

was just showing this
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /homepages/14/d73677637/htdocs/mmoc/pnadodb/adodb.inc.php on line 1110

Post by **Orkney** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:48 am

Just for the record - was giving 304's sitewide from 4am till 5.30am