This Weekend's Outage

[digitalpress]

Sorry for the forum outage folks. The user table got corrupted and had to be patched up. I have no skills in this area, John P came to the rescue and solved it in about ten minutes.

If there are SQL (MySQL in particular) and/or database "experts" amongst us, please get in touch with me - I'd really like to avoid lengthy outages like this and we should pool our skills!

In the meantime I'm going to be looking into improving the hardware as well. We simply have too much traffic on too small a box right now.

[THATinkjar]

It is certainly good to be back :D Thanks for all your efforts over the weekend, DP.

[Austin]

Glad to be back, thanks!

[davidbrit2]

Was it just a quick "REPAIR TABLE" job described here?
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/repair.html

In any case, that could be useful reference for the future. I kind of wonder what caused it. Did the disk run out off space, possibly temporarily? Did the server have a power loss? Or, god forbid, race conditions and deadlocks? Heh.

[Fighter17]

Thank god its BACK!

[boatofcar]

If you need to upgrade DP's hardware, I'm sure you could pull some money together through a fund raiser.

[joshnickerson]

Thank God. I had to substitute Nintendo.com's Legacy System board to get my retro fix... stupid kids don't even know what a Virtual Boy is...

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Wheee :D e! We're back!

[ghostangelofcky]

joe, I have no tech skills, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn express last night

[MrRoboto19XX]

Joe, I hate to be a bugger but running in safari something is amiss.

Whenever I use the "back" button (in safari's window) I get an error message like I did earlier this weekend. So far all the links work, but alas the back button does not.

Just a heads up, sorry I dont know anything on how to fix this.

[digitalpress]

Joe, I hate to be a bugger but running in safari something is amiss.

Whenever I use the "back" button (in safari's window) I get an error message like I did earlier this weekend. So far all the links work, but alas the back button does not.

Just a heads up, sorry I dont know anything on how to fix this.

Hm.. "back" is working ok in Firefox, Mozilla and MSIE. I haven't used Safari in a long time, I'll D/L and see what I can do to correct that.

[Porksta]

Thankfully the ORG was working, otherwise I would have never known that the Bubble Bobble games I saw at a yard sale was worth something!

[davidbrit2]

Joe, I hate to be a bugger but running in safari something is amiss.

Whenever I use the "back" button (in safari's window) I get an error message like I did earlier this weekend. So far all the links work, but alas the back button does not.

Just a heads up, sorry I dont know anything on how to fix this.

Hmm, it's not cached page data, is it? Try blowing away your Safari cache and see if it stops.

[tholly]

back is working fine for me on safari.......

[PapaStu]

Workin fine for me too...

OS X.4.7
Safari 2.0.4(419.3)

[digitalpress]

I'm not having any problems with the Safari browser. Probably a cache thing, clear it out, try again. If you're still having problems, PM me with the specifics and I'll try to duplicate the issue you're having.

[segarocks30]

I know, that was a real bad outage, I missed the Wrestling thread so much...

[MrRoboto19XX]

Cache cleared, problem solved.

Thanks guys!

[Lothars]

I am glad to have it back Joe

Thanks for all your hard work it's really appreciated

[diskoboy]

I was beginning to suffer withdrawls, myself.

[megamaniaman]

Glad things are working again. :) Really hope you are able to fix the problems that are happening with this site.

[Niku-Sama]

i'd like to suggest something:
as kinda like a fund raiser why dont some of us get some prizes and donate them to DP and then hold a raffle type thing for said prizes.

i'd be willing to throw in a few things in.