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Fauxmage

06-11-2006, 04:39 PM

Hi everyone! The forum was offline today, due to a database error. If you check the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page, and keep a copy of the email address, you can let me know about any problems in the future, if you should be unable to access the site. :)

thevegantwins

01-10-2007, 08:37 AM

The last 2 days, the forum has been freezing or just not been available. Is anyone else having any problems?

Keykeypie

01-10-2007, 08:42 AM

:wave: first time I tried to sign on today.....but now it seems fine:)

Gliondrach

01-10-2007, 02:50 PM

Twice yesterday when I was trying to post. In fact, I'm not sure if the second of those posts went through. I had a message which said that the forum was unavailable. I didn't even sign off.

Bowwowmeow

01-10-2007, 03:44 PM

I got a bunch of database error emails. Its something that seems to happen occaisionally, that gets taken care of automatically.

Oracl

01-10-2007, 08:05 PM

It went really slow on me yesterday and then ground to a halt. I went away and pretended to do some housework and when I came back it was OK again. :psing: :excited:

Fauxmage

07-22-2007, 08:21 PM

Welcome back everyone! I'm sorry I had to take the forum offline at such short notice. We got hacked yesterday morning my time. Tech Support suggested an upgrade to prevent this from happening again, so I decided to take us offline immediately to get upgraded. There were some problems, which is why it took so long, but we are back.

my3labs

07-22-2007, 08:37 PM

Yay!!! I've been going through TNV withdrawals!!

Charmagne

07-22-2007, 08:48 PM

I was about to say the same thing! I must of tried to log on fifteen times!!:hitthefan:(This is too cute!!)

Oracl

07-22-2007, 10:32 PM

Three cheers for Fauxmage who has got this forum back up and running and put smilies in place so quickly for the addicts! :cheer:

I love this one: :pouty:

thevegantwins

07-23-2007, 07:54 AM

Thank you, Faux for how much work you've put into restoring the site. I sent a whining email to Oracl when I couldn't log in but she ignored me. :crying: Then I got the email from you and I felt better. :agree:

1vegan

07-23-2007, 08:50 AM

paul

07-23-2007, 09:27 AM

well done for getting it done so quick, and glad to be back :ookiemonster:

Oracl

07-23-2007, 02:55 PM

I sent a whining email to Oracl when I couldn't log in but she ignored me. :crying:
I am here to defend my honour! I only received TVT's email a few minutes ago and have just this minute sent a reply to it. :agree:

24 hours for an email to get from the US to Oz? :confused: I'm thinking it was intercepted by aliens or something! :dizzy:

Bowwowmeow

07-23-2007, 06:35 PM

Yay!!! I've been going through TNV withdrawals!!

I was about to say the same thing! I must of tried to log on fifteen times!!:hitthefan:(This is too cute!!)

Three cheers for Fauxmage who has got this forum back up and running and put smilies in place so quickly for the addicts! :cheer:

I love this one: :pouty:

Thank you, Faux for how much work you've put into restoring the site. I sent a whining email to Oracl when I couldn't log in but she ignored me. :crying: Then I got the email from you and I felt better. :agree:

I think you solved the problem pretty quick, sometimes it's not easy being a board administrator I guess :)

well done for getting it done so quick, and glad to be back :ookiemonster:
Thanks everyone! :nanakiss: :nanakiss: :nanakiss:

Hehe! I just multiquoted. :excited:

paul

07-23-2007, 10:20 PM

Well done:rock::yea::thumbsup:

Oracl

07-23-2007, 10:29 PM

Thanks everyone! :nanakiss: :nanakiss: :nanakiss:

Hehe! I just multiquoted. :excited:

An excellent new function! :agree: :cheer:

thevegantwins

07-24-2007, 05:42 AM

I am here to defend my honour! I only received TVT's email a few minutes ago and have just this minute sent a reply to it. :agree:

24 hours for an email to get from the US to Oz? :confused: I'm thinking it was intercepted by aliens or something! :dizzy:

:comfort: I knew deep down inside that you didn't forget me. I'm sure that Marvin did something to the email. :shakehead: What can you expect from a clinically-depressed android?

Phoenix

07-24-2007, 06:51 AM

Thank you :master: Fauxmage.

Even though I can't get here every day :pouty: I was very distressed :mdrama: when I got locked out.

I was afraid that bad things had happened :hitthefan: because I threatened to thump a certain person. But he ignored my comment anyway! :nahnah:

I'm so glad TNV is up and running again! :cloud9:

Gliondrach

07-24-2007, 10:05 AM

I was afraid that bad things had happened :hitthefan: because I threatened to thump a certain person. But he ignored my comment anyway! :nahnah:

I usually ignore threats. Fuzzy told me that the most dangerous people are usually those who don't make threats. They just attack without warning.

Oracl

07-24-2007, 10:16 PM

:comfort: I knew deep down inside that you didn't forget me.
:friends:

Phoenix

07-28-2007, 06:23 AM

I usually ignore threats. Fuzzy told me that the most dangerous people are usually those who don't make threats. They just attack without warning.
:uhuh: Fuzzy is very smart.

Gliondrach

07-28-2007, 10:22 AM

He's been attacked without warning many times. But never twice by the same person.

Bowwowmeow

08-06-2007, 11:04 AM

I'll be shutting the forum off in about half an hour. Hopefully it won't be offline for as long this time. We're gonna upgrade to yet another version of VBulletin software.

Fauxmage

09-29-2007, 12:41 AM

I'm going to shut the forum down tomorrow morning, my time, probably around ten or so, because we need to get more disk space. I've never done this before, so I don't know whether they will have to do anything to the forum itself, but I'd rather take it offline while they do whatever it is they will do. I don't know how long this will take either, but hopefully they'll be done by the end of the day.

paul

09-29-2007, 01:28 AM

Good luck hope it goes well and easy.

Oracl

09-29-2007, 05:19 AM

:wave: See you soon! :crossfingers:

Bowwowmeow

09-29-2007, 08:41 PM

Oracl

09-29-2007, 10:47 PM

Understood! :agree: :cool:

paul

09-30-2007, 12:10 AM

Eeek Fauxmage is logged on now(8.00 am brit time) i was going to send a pm and say hi, im glad i didnt now.

1vegan

09-30-2007, 12:13 AM

Its been ten hours and I have not even had a reply from Tech Support, so I've turned the forum back on. If Fauxmage logs in at any time until further notice, it won't be me, it'll be Tech Support, just so everyone knows.

Isn't there a way you can check yourself if you have more disk space available now?

Maybe they did upgrade you, but forgot to mail you about it.

Gliondrach

09-30-2007, 03:00 AM

Its been ten hours and I have not even had a reply from Tech Support, so I've turned the forum back on. If Fauxmage logs in at any time until further notice, it won't be me, it'll be Tech Support, just so everyone knows.

How will we know that when BWM posts it is really her? For that matter, how do you know that this is really me?

Bowwowmeow

09-30-2007, 11:58 AM

Isn't there a way you can check yourself if you have more disk space available now?

Maybe they did upgrade you, but forgot to mail you about it.
No, I can tell from my cp that they haven't, and I actually just got another generic warning message this morning saying that I am using 103% of my allotted disk space. :rolleyes:

paul

09-30-2007, 03:58 PM

was faux logged on this morning, about 3 am your time 8 am in britain if not then they were working on it then.

Bowwowmeow

09-30-2007, 06:40 PM

Yes, it was someone else. I won't be logging in as Fauxmage until this issue is resolved. I still haven't heard from them. They don't like to be prodded, but I don't like to be left hanging with no communication for so long either.

Bowwowmeow

10-01-2007, 10:54 AM

Now that things seem to be under better control in terms of whamming and registration errors, as soon as I get more disk space I am going to see about advertising this forum and getting a few actual vegans to join us. Tech support set a deadline of October 2, tomorrow, by which to respond to my request for more disk space, so hopefully I will get this resolved soon. I will most likely turn the forum off again tomorrow in anticipation of whatever they might need to do.

Oracl

10-02-2007, 12:53 AM

Actual vegans joining would be nice! :agree:

Fauxmage

10-04-2007, 10:46 PM

Well I'm gonna have another go at getting Tech Support to do something about giving us more disk space. They totally ignored my first request and let it expire. I will keep you updated, and hopefully will be able to provide plenty of notice in case we've got to go offline again.

1vegan

10-05-2007, 03:35 AM

I don't know what the first message about getting out of diskspace said, but perhaps it will help to contact sales instead of the tech department?

Good thing that even when you're out of diskspace, the forum is still going ;)

Bowwowmeow

10-05-2007, 11:20 AM

Sales is who I did contact, and they said they forwarded it to management, and would get back to me shortly. :rolleyes:

Bowwowmeow

11-23-2007, 03:55 PM

The forum was offline for a little while today. I guess the servers were hiding or something, because I kept getting "server not found" pages. ;) It seems to have resolved itself without any input from me, however. :phew:

Oracl

11-23-2007, 10:17 PM

It's fine now, after the earlier glitch! :)

Phoenix

12-01-2007, 09:15 AM

:phew: The forum's back up and running! :cheer:

It must have been offline for several hours! :pouty:

What happened?

Gliondrach

12-01-2007, 10:18 AM

It was off line about 6 or 7 hours ago. Still off about 90 minutes ago. Back on when I tried again 20 minutes ago.

Bowwowmeow

12-01-2007, 11:22 AM

Sorry guys. I was asleep and have had no message from the web host, so I've got no idea what happened.

Gliondrach

12-01-2007, 05:08 PM

My MI5 contacts - through a certain person - have told me that the Chinese have industrial spies who are trying to learn British and American commercial computer secrets.

veggiesosage

12-01-2007, 05:41 PM

Sorry guys. I was asleep and have had no message from the web host, so I've got no idea what happened.

Aww bless you can't complain about a bit of sleep :D

Bowwowmeow

02-11-2008, 03:58 PM

Sorry I haven't been around much. I've been doing pretty well for the last couple of years on the migraine front, but lately it seems like whenever there is a change in the weather, I get struck down. I'm in the middle of another, but I've popped in to let you all know that the servers are moving to another floor, and so the forum will be down for approximately an hour, sometime between 3 and 4 AM Tuesday morning, February 12, Eastern Standard time, or possibly even between 1 and 6 AM. They think its more likely to be between 3 and 4 though. So if you try to access the site and something weird happens, that might be it.

I hope this will mean fewer server problems in the future. :crossfingers:

my3labs

02-11-2008, 04:55 PM

Feel better, BWM.

Gliondrach

02-11-2008, 05:52 PM

Yes, I hope you feel better soon, BWM.

Oracl

02-11-2008, 08:59 PM

Yes, get well, BWM. :comfort: :psmooch:

Bowwowmeow

02-12-2008, 03:12 PM

Thanks guys. :yheart:
They have postponed the server move to February 19. They didn't say anything about the time, so I will assume they are planning the same time frame. I'll let you know any further news.

Phoenix

02-12-2008, 08:26 PM

Feeling better now, BWM?

Bowwowmeow

07-09-2008, 08:03 PM

They've released another version the forum software, so I am thinking about shutting the forum off next week, maybe on Tuesday, when I won't be so busy and distracted as I've been, and getting upgraded. Hopefully this time we will get a version that works with our servers. I still can't understand why other forums are running 3.7.0 and beyond without any of the problems we are stuck with. :(

thevegantwins

07-10-2008, 05:23 AM

Does that mean we'll be down for a month again? :whistle:

Oracl

07-10-2008, 05:26 AM

I thought you must be busy BWM, I've missed you here on the forum. :rubchin:

1vegan

07-10-2008, 09:38 AM

1vegan

07-10-2008, 09:42 AM

. I still can't understand why other forums are running 3.7.0 and beyond without any of the problems we are stuck with. :(

I missed this at first.

My guess is that it depends on the kind of, or version of the software they run.

Sometimes stuff in the latest upgrades, also requires one of the latest versions of PHP or Mysql. If your server doesn't have that, you're bound to have trouble.

thevegantwins

07-10-2008, 09:43 AM

I thought you must be busy BWM, I've missed you here on the forum. :rubchin:

:agree:

dreamer

07-10-2008, 11:50 AM

I hope this time it works :crossfingers:

I'm also glad to hear that you're just busy, BWM, and not sitting somewhere with a horrible headache...'cause I've missed you around here:uhuh:

Bowwowmeow

08-30-2008, 09:23 PM

There is a new version of the software out, so I will be taking the forum offline on Monday morning my time, to try to get the upgrade done, and get our problems fixed for once and for all. Once we are working properly, I doubt very much that I will continue to upgrade. Until 3.7.0 came out, upgrades were no problem. Now it is a major ordeal, and I am getting really discouraged by having to deal with the same old errors over and over again.

Fauxmage

09-01-2008, 02:24 PM

So, we are now upgraded, but we have some problems to fix still.

Fauxmage

11-30-2008, 09:36 PM

Hello everyone! I will be taking the forum offline Monday afternoon, December 1st, my time, to do the upgrade. Upgrades don't take very long, as long as there are no problems, so hopefully we will be back online withing a few hours, after I have checked all the functions to see whether they are fixed or not. We are still having weird banning problems, and it is only a matter of time until the usergroup I have temporarily put you all in becomes a banned one, I fear, and there is no way to fix this without another software upgrade.

If VBulletin thinks I will be renewing my license next year they are nuts! As soon as we get a working upgrade that's IT!!! :tb:

Oracl

11-30-2008, 11:07 PM

Hello everyone! I will be taking the forum offline Monday afternoon, December 1st, my time, to do the upgrade.
OK, I'm ready! :dark:

Gliondrach

12-02-2008, 11:31 AM

I was blissfully unaware of this as I wasn't on the internet thing at all yesterday.

Bowwowmeow

11-03-2010, 09:55 PM

Got the following message from my web host:

This notice is to inform of Major Power maintenance in our Data Center on Sat. Nov 6th starting at 10am EST. This urgent work will require all of our systems to be shutdown during the power work. This is unavoidable as this work is being done on the power feeds directly into the server racks which does not afford us UPS usage.