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Title: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 12, 2011, 09:27:45 PM
So the ISP had some sort of hardware issue  :zap: We were down for 21 hours. Needless to say, I am not happy...

I believe I will start looking for a new ISP soon
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 12, 2011, 09:29:36 PM
Oh yeah... because of this issue, we had to be restored from a backup... so we lost 1 days worth of posts

Sorry guys...
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: dbvandy on April 12, 2011, 09:48:29 PM
Oh yeah... because of this issue, we had to be restored from a backup... so we lost 1 days worth of posts

Sorry guys...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO............... :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :zap: :zap: :zap: :zap: :zap: :zap: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :poke: :poke: :poke: :poke: :poke: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :zap: :zap: :zap: :zap: :zap: :zap: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 12, 2011, 09:52:33 PM
My day has been on the phone arguing with the ISP.  :bang: I poured a lot of time into this today... I could tell you how I feel but I would be violating some of my forum rules! Needless to say I am PO'd but greatly relieved we are back.
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: dbvandy on April 12, 2011, 11:37:46 PM
My day has been on the phone arguing with the ISP.  :bang: I poured a lot of time into this today... I could tell you how I feel but I would be violating some of my forum rules! Needless to say I am PO'd but greatly relieved we are back.

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Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Stilldrillin on April 13, 2011, 02:00:46 AM
ONLY 21 hours, Eric?  :bugeye:

Seemed very much longer to me.......  :bang:

It's nice to be normal again. Thanks for all your efforts!  :thumbup:

David D

Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: lordedmond on April 13, 2011, 02:26:44 AM
thanks for your efforts


get a refund from them if they have strayed out side the SLA



Stuart
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: saw on April 13, 2011, 04:09:49 AM
It was a black day yesterday, not reading this forum, but now I am happy  :D :D :D
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: rvt on April 13, 2011, 05:24:18 AM
Sorry to read this is causing you so much trouble. Just to pass on a report: 1 of my messages were deleted, which I guess relates to having a days of posts removed.

I have trouble getting on this site very frequently of late, almost ever time I come to access it (admittedly I'm not a frequent visitor) the page just won't load, gives error signs. I hope your day goes better today!
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: DaveH on April 13, 2011, 07:33:26 AM

 :( You lost my post - my first and one and only you lost :(

Huh I'm heart broken :(

DaveH
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: j45on on April 13, 2011, 07:58:45 AM
I'm glad madmodder is back I was getting withdrawal symptoms  :nrocks:
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Divided he ad on April 13, 2011, 09:47:11 AM
A whole day of posts lost!!   

I had written many profound replies to many posts... I don't know if I will be able to recall them all and re-insert them now?

If you believe that you'll believe anything  :lol:


glad we're all back  :mmr:


As said chief... Thank you. For all the hard work keeping us all happily communicating   :ddb:


Ralph.


Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: raynerd on April 13, 2011, 10:22:20 AM
Yep, bummer it went down and posts were deleted but just glad you managed to get it back up on its feet! Thanks for the time you must put into this!!
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 13, 2011, 12:22:14 PM
Looks like the ISP is STILL having issues.

Made up my mind... as soon as I can financially do it, we are moving service providers.
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: AdeV on April 13, 2011, 12:25:21 PM
Looks like the ISP is STILL having issues.

Made up my mind... as soon as I can financially do it, we are moving service providers.

Where can we contribute?

If you want a server, I already host 1 forum on my virtual server (listerengine.com); adding madmodder to it would be a doddle... PM me, there would be no charges (ever).
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 13, 2011, 01:08:29 PM
Looks like the ISP is STILL having issues.

Made up my mind... as soon as I can financially do it, we are moving service providers.

Where can we contribute?

If you want a server, I already host 1 forum on my virtual server (listerengine.com); adding madmodder to it would be a doddle... PM me, there would be no charges (ever).

Thanks for the offer to host Ade... I use my VPS to host a few domains though.

Contributions can be done Here (http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=2762.0).
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: AdeV on April 13, 2011, 02:52:10 PM
No problem Eric. In that case, I can recommend daily.co.uk - I know it's UK based & you're US based; but so far, I've had nothing but uptime from them. They had a planned outage of a couple of hours, which I got over a month's advance notice of; and when the time came I didn't even notice it...

For the US, I only have experience of hostmonster.com - same applies though, so far it's been well over 99.9% uptime, for over a year.

Cheers!
Ade.
Title: Re: Unplanned downtime
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 13, 2011, 03:07:01 PM
I have heard good things about hostmonster.com. I am also considering myhosting.com for the VPS. I will be making a decision soon as I want to get this behind us. I have been with the current host for 7 years... things have gone reasonably well until the last year or so... Now, I just want reliable service AND decent tech support.