SmartCanucks undergoing upgrades and more...

[FallenPixels]

I think its because of the lag and downtime, people are refreshing while its sending

[scbpooh]

I seem to be making multiple posts accidentally and I'm seeing multiple threads named the same by a single poster.

Ive seen this with a few different ppl in the last little while tonight

[cabmonk]

First time I have seen it this slow, so add me to the list lol.

[FallenPixels]

Finally, cab agrees we have lag so it must be realllllly laggy!

[Boo Radley]

We're trying to rebuild the search index that's why... and it's slowing the whole server down...

Did I ever mention how much I hate vbulletin 4?

[Darth Penguin]

Sorry Boo...

I'm on other boards with V4 .


However those are not as complicated as this one...I'm sure a super-genius like you will soon have it tamed...

[cabmonk]

We're trying to rebuild the search index that's why... and it's slowing the whole server down...

Did I ever mention how much I hate vbulletin 4?

But you really had no choice, unless you wanted to build your own forum system from the ground up like I have seen a couple forums do.

[Darth Penguin]

{{{shudders}}} I wouldn't wish that on my worst ener.......


Okay I would....


But not on Boo..

[marstec]

We're trying to rebuild the search index that's why... and it's slowing the whole server down...

Did I ever mention how much I hate vbulletin 4?

I'm curious, would it have been easier to shut the forum down in order to update rather than to work around it?

[FallenPixels]

haha, we will get there eventually

[cabmonk]

I'm curious, would it have been easier to shut the forum down in order to update rather than to work around it?

Probably not with the people around here who can't go without sc for even a few seconds never mind several days down. I think this was the best option since the forum is at least up and working I would say at about 80%.

[FallenPixels]

I'm curious, would it have been easier to shut the forum down in order to update rather than to work around it?

It seems every time something updates, something else breaks - boo and the other admins are not very active on posting on the forums and don't use the extras so they likely would miss all this stuff too

[cabmonk]

But you really had no choice, unless you wanted to build your own forum system from the ground up like I have seen a couple forums do.

This is the funniest thing (not haha, just weird.lol) I was thinking of broadbandreports .com when I posted this so thought I would go check them out, and here is what I get when I go there, so don't complain about a bit of lag,lol.


dslreports.com is offline -------------------------Update Tue Apr 17 19:19:15 EDT 2012Well, the good news is we have a plan, and I hope things will be offline for no longer than the balance of this week. Unfortunately, equipment must be sourced, installed, configured, and so on. I will post a link with a some gory details soon.

Update Tue Apr 17 04:14:29 EDT 2012Things have turned out to be more complicated. Although no hardware was fried, our large storage array has decided, probably as a result of going dark in mid write, that our two sql servers can no longer have access to one of the small, but important, partitions that makes up the larger SQL data area. All data is there, but it refuses to offer it. At this point all courses of action involve delays. When I know more I'll post -Justin

Update 15:35 EDTOur data center experienced a power outage which affected our entire system. We are in the process of recovering everything and turning a few cranky servers into happy ones. Apologies for the inconvenience, we expect to be up in a few hours

Update 16:18 EDT-------------------------The power outage affected the entire data center and we are still awaiting our turn to power up some machines. We will keep this page updated.

Update 19:20 EDT-------------------------Unfortunately, a database server doesn't take kindly to being taken down without proper shutdown procedures and therestoration efforts are still under way. No ETA at this time.

[heartgirl99]

I'm curious, would it have been easier to shut the forum down in order to update rather than to work around it?

bite your tongue!!!!
the emergency depts would be FULL of sc'ers in severe withdrawal!

[heartgirl99]

It seems every time something updates, something else breaks - boo and the other admins are not very active on posting on the forums and don't use the extras so they likely would miss all this stuff too

i can sympathize. you change one thing and think everything should be a-ok and something wonky happens.

thanks to boo, et al for keeping the site up while all this is going on!