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The Eagle Has Landed |
February 25, 2006, 12:33AM |
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by: eon topic: Site News bookmark this article view bookmarked articles go to archives |
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| We have finally completed our move to the new server. I'm sorry that this turned into such a huge ordeal, guys. Sometimes it's hard to tell how things will go, though, and you have to sort of improvise.
So that's what we did with our servers for about a week. Improvised. I believe we are now firmly planted in a rig capable of meeting the demands of our community and I'm also reasonably sure that we've seen the last of the major outages and other ultra strange, spooky events (like disappearing profiles, comments, etc.). *knocks on wood* I still have fine tuning to do and I've yet to see how this system will hold up under a heavy load, but signs are finally starting to look... reasonable. I'm in the process of getting the loose ends. LoGD will soon be back up. Mail has gone down again but will also be back up soon. Chat is now back up. As a note for our chatters, if you're used to using mIRC to connect, you'll need to update the server name to: irc.darkstarlings.com Unfortunately we didn't come through this process entirely unscathed. At one point during the move, our databases were copied to a faulty hard disk. Yes, it seemed like god, the CIA and all nine planets were aligned against me for a while there, with no shortage of heart stopping moments along the way. The faulty hard drive did some damage to our database, namely the accounts table, which was sort of cruel and ironic. I mean, why couldn't it of crapped on the hit counters, visitor lists, friend lists, block lists, ip logs or something else... anything else... that was relatively expendable? But no, the faulty drive had to take a chunk out of the big enchillada. Normally there would have been backups, but when you're in the process of migrating a large site across the internet, playing hop-scotch between networks and servers, backups aren't always a luxury that can be afforded. A small mercy, the damage wasn't major. It amounted to a handful of accounts (I'm guessing a few hundred) being dropped. If your account was dropped, you'll know because when you try to view your profile now, it will come up as not existing. You also will not be able to log in (invalid login error) and trying to retrieve your password will not work. If you are in this situation, re-create your account with exactly the same name as you had before. You can use the same email address and everything. You will get back your comments, friends lists, pictures, picture comments and layout info. Unfortunately, you'll lose anything that you had put into your sections such as about me, likes, dislikes, etc. I anticipate that some wise... people... will decide to look for dropped accounts and try to recreate them before the original owners can do so. If this happens to you, contact me. IP logs are still there, I'll be able to tell if someone swipes an account this way (and woe to you if you're caught doing so!). So, okay. I guess that about gets it. All of this ruckus derailed my plans to work on the picture verification system, but I'll get back on that one as soon as I'm able. I'll post an update about that as soon as things are sorted out. A million thanks for the abundance of understanding and patience shown by the community at large. |
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 kittykat325 |
Thanks a ton Eon =] April 7, 1970, 9:10PM |
 eon Site Founder |
Sorry about that, guys. This wasn't actually related to the server move, just a result of my usual tinkering around with things.
All should be well now. ------ Tired feet, still wicked feet, onward they will march. April 7, 1970, 9:10PM |
eon Site Founder |
Yeah. Nothing like squinting at your little ssh terminal at 4 in the morning just barely making out the great news that hdb is failing and your whole database is haning by a thread.
Definitely invigorating. ------ Tired feet, still wicked feet, onward they will march. April 7, 1970, 9:10PM |
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