Forum Outage + Planned Maintenance

**SIadmin** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-13-2004

Hi Guys

As you may have noticed, the forum had been down for approximately 24 hours from the 12th of Sept 2004.

The issue is a bug within vbulletin which corrupts the language and settings files of vbulletin.

As I did not have access to my office (gf had my key) and my laptop battery was dead - I had to recover the files with an emule version of vbulletin which is not the EXACT correct version of our board. So far so good.

In the next few days during our least busiest periods I will update the board to the latest version which should not see this error occur again.

You may notice the board get bogged down now and again. I had updated our mySQL (database server) to the latest version, but it doesn't seem to be using all of our servers processors, I will also fix this over the next few days.

Thanks for your patience

dirtydonki · #2 (**permalink**) 09-13-2004

I like the new "10 minutes ago" message notifications. They are cool.

Can we keep 'em, can we, can we?

So nice to have you back. thought for one awful moment you'd had a visit from the SMafia or been ECM'd by Ruperts FlashTroopers.

nixus · #3 (**permalink**) 09-13-2004

I liked the info about the last post age very much as well. Thanks a lot for cool addon.
And the forum is one of the best so far.

stoly · #4 (**permalink**) 09-13-2004

Admin's explaination is certainly authoritative, but having three notorious sites down at the same time that a well-known operator takes countermeasures also opens the door to conspirational theories...

**Astra_Boy** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-13-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoly

Admin's explaination is certainly authoritative, but having three notorious sites down at the same time that a well-known operator takes countermeasures also opens the door to conspirational theories...

Can you please explain ..... are you trying to say we were hacked ????

**SIadmin** · #6 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by dirtydonki

I like the new "10 minutes ago" message notifications. They are cool.

Can we keep 'em, can we, can we?

Yah, we can keep 'em

Let's hope the board is busy enough to not have - 4 weeks ago and such

I quite like it also, doesn't use very much CPU to have either

**SIadmin** · #7 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoly

Admin's explaination is certainly authoritative, but having three notorious sites down at the same time that a well-known operator takes countermeasures also opens the door to conspirational theories...

with the huge spikes in traffic which is associated with new images releases, nano changes etc many forums DO go down.

It is quite plausable that the other forums went down because of the huge traffic spike.