trailboss99 994 Posted December 4, 2013 As you may have noticed our forum is missing. This is the result of a catastrophic disk array failure. We are currently rebuilding the server and when done will reload the DB (minus two days) and reopen the doors. I expect this will take a couple more days as we are starting from scratch and making a lot of changes we intended to make in a couple of months time. Since we are down we may as well make 'em now. Thanks for your patience. Trailboss99 PS: No Schiphol data cables were harmed in the making of this outage. Share this post Link to post
BentleySharp 0 Posted December 4, 2013 Maaaan... Sorry to hear that...Knew it had to be something serious for it to be down so long. You all have your work cut out for you. No small task to rebuild, basically, from the ground up I'm assuming. You guys put in so many thankless hours for the forums. I just want you to know it doesn't go unnoticed. I think I can speak for the whole forum when I say 'Thank You'. Just curious. Was this an accidental crash or was it the result of an attack? Share this post Link to post
trailboss99 994 Posted December 4, 2013 Thanks mate and yes, ground up. Was this an accidental crash or was it the result of an attack? That is not yet clear, arrays can go down on their own but it's rare. We will look at that after the forum is back. By the time we are finished it will be near impossible for it to happen again. Share this post Link to post
P4GTR 0 Posted December 4, 2013 Losing RWI for this long (the longest in 6-7 years, since it was up?) really gives an appreciation for how much a part of my daily life it is. Missing the darkside crew. I'm... Even slightly missing the CRM at this point. Maybe? Nah. If there is anything I can do to help. Share this post Link to post
trailboss99 994 Posted December 4, 2013 Not really mate, the guys have it in hand. It's a sizable task however as we are migrating platforms to some extent as well as placing some services in the cloud. Major changes take time but rather than pull the whole lot down again in a couple of months we may as well do it now. Was. Kink involved ? Good luck mate Kink is allowed nowhere near our server. Share this post Link to post
ThinkBachs 1 Posted December 4, 2013 This better not mess up my post count over there! Share this post Link to post
mitchbaria 0 Posted December 4, 2013 Sorry to hear of the troubles Boss,,,, I'm sure everything will kick off better then ever....best of luck with all the fixes.... Share this post Link to post
Aren 27 Posted December 4, 2013 Sounds like you have everything under control TB and things will work out for the best. This curve will just allowed you to put things on a better, more secure footing for the future a little ahead of schedule. In the meantime, it is good to have some RWI mems here with us and I hope all are enjoying their temporary stay. Thank you and all of you who are doing so much for everyone! Share this post Link to post
P4GTR 0 Posted December 4, 2013 This better not mess up my post count over there! Damn, Mr. T. Share this post Link to post
trailboss99 994 Posted December 4, 2013 This better not mess up my post count over there! Nope, we have lost two days at the most mate. Share this post Link to post
dave47 6,477 Posted December 4, 2013 We're all pulling for you, TB; you and the Admins have done comendable jobs in the past when facing attacks on the site or crashes. We'll be patiently waiting for RWI's return. In the interim, just chillin' over here with the rest of the RWI mates. RWG is a damned good, entertaining (and suggestive) site; How often do we get the chance to say FUCK?! dave Share this post Link to post
ThinkBachs 1 Posted December 4, 2013 Nope, we have lost two days at the most mate. I have 4,687 posts in those last two days..... :P Share this post Link to post
wat44 0 Posted December 4, 2013 I can vouch for thinkbachs, I replied to every one of those posts, sometimes twice Share this post Link to post
Jeff K 0 Posted December 4, 2013 Nope, we have lost two days at the most mate. I have 4,687 posts in those last two days..... :P Beemer would have double that!!! :lmao: Share this post Link to post
nuker 30 Posted December 4, 2013 I think we all could wait for the better of RWI and thanks to Col, u're da man, mate Share this post Link to post
trailboss99 994 Posted December 4, 2013 We are as of five minutes ago now the proud owners of a pair of cloud servers Share this post Link to post
fatarms 7,777 Posted December 4, 2013 We are as of five minutes ago now the proud owners of a pair of cloud servers Awesome. My entire development and production environment for work is in Amazon's EC2 Share this post Link to post
trailboss99 994 Posted December 4, 2013 Good! If we have any problems I'll let you know. Share this post Link to post
gartfield 0 Posted December 4, 2013 Awesome TB. thank you very much. Can't wait to get back home. When this first happened All I could think of was the worst. I am a moderator on an exotic cat site for the last 7 years. Last year it was hacked by some animal rights activists. Crazy mother fuckers. They nuked the site literally and everyone that was on the site when it went down lost their computers. That is how bad the virus or whatever it was was. We had few thousand members, and was a great place. after months of work got the new site up and running but people haven't returned sadly. Too much crap going on in the exotic animal industry and a lot of people threatening and actually hurting people's animals when they find out you own one. It's sad. Sadly our site is basically dead now. But anyways, that's all I could think of when our site here went down the other day, that it was doomed. So so glad that it's not. Can't wait to get back there TB, and we all appeciate all your work and the work of the mods here. Thanks, George. Share this post Link to post
fatarms 7,777 Posted December 4, 2013 Good! If we have any problems I'll let you know. If you put them into the EC2 cloud and need any tips or pointers, let me know Share this post Link to post
trailboss99 994 Posted December 4, 2013 Far too much blood, sweat and tears invested to just lie down mate. Share this post Link to post
Dr.Verylong 0 Posted December 4, 2013 We are as of five minutes ago now the proud owners of a pair of cloud servers Gotta love the Elastic Cloud! Thanks for the heads up! On second thought: Does that mean that AHW is now Elastigirl? Share this post Link to post
Barth 0 Posted December 4, 2013 Great job Boss, and thanks to the whole RWI staff. I have very few occasions to say it, but I love you all, and RWI is an awesome board. Share this post Link to post