As for whats going on, it's life. Sometimes the servers will be stable for years , then sometimes just like everything in life, they break.
There are small breaks and big breaks, this was a medium break
As for finding the forum offline regularly, it all depend on what time of the day/night you log on and I do updates. Updates are done on a weekly basis. Back-ups on a Bi-Monthly basis. Each time I do any of them I must take the system offline.
You can't change the oil in your car while you're driving it
Terminology: PHP = PHP is an open source server-side scripting language designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages.
SQL = Structured Query Language - is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data bases.
Every website you see is hosted by a company, they don't hang around in space. Our hosting company are in the process of upgrading their PHP & SQL on their hosting servers. (They started on Dec 20th)
The PHP upgrade went OK. I just had some minor issues to solve after the upgrade for our site to be up and running.
The SQL upgrade did not go so well. It corrupted our database. The database store all the posts, stats and info we post on the forum.
Our latest Back-up was Dec 18 2012, so our restore is from that date. To recover corrupted data from a database is a lot of work and time. Even then if just one piece of the recovered data is corrupt and you reintroduce it into the database, the whole thing can crash again.
So the only Posts I've recovered in the shape of HTML pages are the FFF 2013 posts since it was our current event.
I'll spend the rest of the week making sure all is stable and getting the FFF info back on the forum.
Tomorrow I'll be unavailable since I'll be in hospital for a heart procedure, but I'll be available again by the evening if the doctor don't screw anything up
Our host is doing another (final) upgrade to the server sometime today, so let hold thumbs nothing else screw up.
Overall we can't complain. We've been up for 99% of the last couple years. I've seen servers with more issues.
I'll be looking into alternate hosts for CAG in case these guys don't get their chit together.
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As for whats going on, it's life. Sometimes the servers will be stable for years
, then sometimes just like everything in life, they break.
There are small breaks and big breaks, this was a medium break
As for finding the forum offline regularly, it all depend on what time of the day/night you log on and I do updates. Updates are done on a weekly basis. Back-ups on a Bi-Monthly basis. Each time I do any of them I must take the system offline.
You can't change the oil in your car while you're driving it
Terminology: PHP = PHP is an open source server-side scripting language designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages.
SQL = Structured Query Language - is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data bases.
Every website you see is hosted by a company, they don't hang around in space. Our hosting company are in the process of upgrading their PHP & SQL on their hosting servers. (They started on Dec 20th)
The PHP upgrade went OK. I just had some minor issues to solve after the upgrade for our site to be up and running.
The SQL upgrade did not go so well. It corrupted our database. The database store all the posts, stats and info we post on the forum.
Our latest Back-up was Dec 18 2012, so our restore is from that date. To recover corrupted data from a database is a lot of work and time. Even then if just one piece of the recovered data is corrupt and you reintroduce it into the database, the whole thing can crash again.
So the only Posts I've recovered in the shape of HTML pages are the FFF 2013 posts since it was our current event.
I'll spend the rest of the week making sure all is stable and getting the FFF info back on the forum.
Tomorrow I'll be unavailable since I'll be in hospital for a heart procedure, but I'll be available again by the evening if the doctor don't screw anything up
Our host is doing another (final) upgrade to the server sometime today, so let hold thumbs nothing else screw up.
Overall we can't complain. We've been up for 99% of the last couple years. I've seen servers with more issues.
I'll be looking into alternate hosts for CAG in case these guys don't get their chit together.
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