Where were we?
Mon, 16 July 2007, 10:09 amadministrator4 posts in thread
Where were we?
Mon, 16 July 2007, 10:09 amThis site experienced a lengthy outage late last week until this morning. We've lost no data or information during the outage, but clearly we were off air due to the problem for several days.
I'm working with our hosts at Informed Technology to try and determine the cause of the outage. There are some issues with the database server that I hope will be resolved by new hardware. In the meantime, I'll see if I can arrange some sort of a backup plan that at least ensures
- there's some notification for visitors that there's a problem rather than timing out or providing a blank page or perhaps
- the information on the site is available but blocks any new contributions until the problem is resolved
My apologies for any frustration or inconvenience caused.
This site experienced a lengthy outage late last week until this morning. We've lost no data or information during the outage, but clearly we were off air due to the problem for several days.
I'm working with our hosts at Informed Technology to try and determine the cause of the outage. There are some issues with the database server that I hope will be resolved by new hardware. In the meantime, I'll see if I can arrange some sort of a backup plan that at least ensures
- there's some notification for visitors that there's a problem rather than timing out or providing a blank page or perhaps
- the information on the site is available but blocks any new contributions until the problem is resolved
My apologies for any frustration or inconvenience caused.
I did a quick DNS lookup
Where we are
Yay!
Delighted to advise that after a pretty torturous few weeks where we suffered the longest outages we've ever experienced due to a failing database server, our hosts at Informed Technology have our database up and running on a new server.
:-)
"we finally replaced the old database server with a new machine, so from this morning the database should be faster and much more reliable"
In effect the site is relatively complex, so the new database server won't have a huge impact on speed, but clearly we should be back to the usual high level of availability with far fewer outages.
Yay!!