The site will be offline for about 2 hours from 11AM to 1PM PST. We're adding some disks to the database server and its required I take it offline. Hopefully the downtime will be minimal.

 

it was down all day....

1130AM until 655PM

 

yup, computers suck. I paid a guy $65/hr for 6 hours ($390) to fix a $250 disk controller. I'm painfully aware...

 

It must be a PC thing... (Piece of Cr*p = PC)

It not loading all the images... I have just text
next to no photos and no ad banners

 

I took care of that, it should be ok now?

This was a typical pointless day. no steps forward, 2 steps back.

The plan was to add 2 new hard disks to the database server's disk array to add more space. It was getting very low (only 1GB free). From there it all went down hill. The server only has 3 drive slots not the 4 needed, the disk controller drivers are screwed up (it loads twice and crashes). We have reached the upper extreme of our power consuption (plug in a monitor to control the server and overload the circuit breaker killing power the the entire rack). Anyway, a total loss of both time and money and a giant inconvenience to everyone for no net gain whatsoever.

Everything should be working again as it was.

In about a month (maybe sooner) we are moving our servers to a new rack at a new datacenter which will fix the power problem. The database server is due for retirement and I'll replace it with something newer and more capable (I will soak the disk controller in gasoline and set it ablaze to exact some amount of vengeance for today).

 

Our avaitors are not showing up

and the little icons for

still get little ? all over the page

Thanks for your effort.... :thumbsup:

Thankfully I have a MAC and its not on every www page

okewithstick:

The only icon that kind of works...

PS I'm not bitching / crying / pissing ... just bringing (sp?) it up because your prior post
said its all ok now....

Thanks
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Hey I knew you were alright... I JUST loked at you sig... MAC rule
Just tossed my first mac
Powercomputing 240mhz 2 gb HD.... paid nearly $3000 in 1997... now it trash
and it looks like it new... not a scratch on it... keyboard... 17" monitor

O.. well RIP powercomputing

http://www.ibiblio.org/cars/images/S2KOSX2.gif

 

Still because the are working for me. They weren't but they are now from what I see.

 

I noticed the Joomla logo while you were doing stuff...how's the integration of that with PowerBoard? (Or any other php board for that matter).

I'm redeveloping our ocmpany website on Mambo at the mo, but if the fork to Joomla handles integration with forums better (ie at all ) then I might consider jumping ship (haven't got very far yet).

 

Site is screaming fast now. Best Iv'e seen it in years.

 

Yes it is and while the opportunity presents itself I will take full credit -- even though I have no idea why -- never look a gift horse in the mouth as they say

The work I did yesterday was not actually intended to have this sort of effect. I was really only trying to add additional disk space which I only partially succeeded in doing. There was no conception of a speed increase, especially not one as significant as we got.

To illustrate here is a graph of the load on the database server over the past week (30 minute averages of samples taken every 5 minutes)



You can see the time the server was offline by the gap. The graph runs left to right, as you would expect any time axis to go, most recent values on the right. If there is a problem with this is that I made a number of changes (new OS load, put logs on a different disk than data, etc) that I'm not sure which one accounts for the vast improvement. I feel like breaking it again just to find out. If I could bottle it I'd be rich

So while I did spend almost a grand yesterday for what looked at the time to be nothing it turned out ok in the end. I love a happy ending