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The Flat Earth Society => Announcements => Status Notices => Topic started by: xasop on November 20, 2014, 11:52:53 PM

Title: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: xasop on November 20, 2014, 11:52:53 PM: The server that hosts the forum, wiki and IRC was down for about six and a half hours, from about 17:00 to about 23:40 UTC, 2014-11-20. I'm still looking into the root cause, but the reason for the duration of the outage is that it happened in the middle of the night here, and I was asleep.

In response to this incident, I'm going to be looking into setting up proper monitoring soon. It's something I've been planning for a while and never got around to because the server has been very reliable until now. Hopefully this won't happen again, but I'd like to be prepared.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Saddam Hussein on November 20, 2014, 11:54:30 PM: Literally Daniel. Thanks for fixing it, though.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Lord Dave on November 21, 2014, 12:03:38 AM: It's Yakkov! His lawyers did something.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: juner on November 21, 2014, 12:07:45 AM: Absolutely unacceptable. This outage makes the total down time, planned and unplanned, about 8 hours for the site's first year of operation. That only correlates to a 99.999% uptime. Just terrible.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Ghost of V on November 21, 2014, 12:25:30 AM: I was so lost without TFES. I laid on the floor staring at my phone for about 6 hours. My girlfriend left me, two of my cats died from dehydration, and my dog started eating the flesh from my feet because I guess he thought I was dead.

I demand compensation for my emotional damages. You will be hearing from my lawyers tomorrow.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Vindictus on November 21, 2014, 02:36:11 AM: It's probably because IT'S SO FUCKING HOT RIGHT NOW.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Rushy on November 21, 2014, 02:54:33 AM: Quote from: Vindictus on November 21, 2014, 02:36:11 AM
It's probably because IT'S SO FUCKING HOT RIGHT NOW.

Actually, it is terribly cold outside. Take your crazy rantings elsewhere.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Vindictus on November 21, 2014, 05:10:03 AM: Quote from: Irushwithscvs on November 21, 2014, 02:54:33 AM
Quote from: Vindictus on November 21, 2014, 02:36:11 AM
It's probably because IT'S SO FUCKING HOT RIGHT NOW.

Actually, it is terribly cold outside. Take your crazy rantings elsewhere.

This might be relevant if the server was in backwards land, but it's not.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: xasop on November 21, 2014, 05:56:55 AM: Quote from: Vindictus on November 21, 2014, 05:10:03 AM
This might be relevant if the server was in backwards land, but it's not.

Actually, the server is in California.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Vindictus on November 21, 2014, 06:10:13 AM: California confirmed for backwards land.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Gayer on November 21, 2014, 06:37:22 AM: I read outage as outrage and that expressed my feelings towards this perfectly.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: jroa on November 21, 2014, 01:29:52 PM: Gayer is so mad and upset.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Saddam Hussein on November 21, 2014, 01:41:18 PM: We all were.
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: Particle Person on November 21, 2014, 03:26:27 PM: I tried to force myself to sleep to pass the useless time once I realized the outrage was going to last for more than a few minutes. I was also at work. :(
Title: Re: Unplanned outage, 2014-11-20
Post by: spoon on November 21, 2014, 04:12:28 PM: This is outageous.