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Author Topic: ...aaaand we're back.  (Read 246 times)
keith
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« on: October 04, 2011, 11:39:40 pm »
What did you do during the Great Website Outage of 2011?
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2011, 02:10:55 am »
Now that I've got (almost) all the loose ends tied up, here's the details on the outage and why you didn't have a site for a few days:

Saturday evening I was moving some of the other websites on my server from the old (really old) server onto my new box. As I moved the IP addresses off the old box to the new one, I ran into a network glitch (ARP cache poisoning, for those technically minded folks who care) that took most everything out for 24 hours. (That's the timeout on the aforementioned ARP cache on the datacenter's switches).

Instead of moving all of the sites in a controlled manner, one-by-one, allowing me to carefully maintain uptime, instead the whole thing came crashing down around my ears in a flaming, burning framework of aluminum and hydrogen. (Oh, the humanity!) No actual flames, but I was sure feeling 'em!

Took longer than I expected, combined with my day job, to get everything in order... and there's still a few glitches. You'll notice some broken image links here and there (the files are on disk, still trying to figure that one out), but for the most part everything's working.

If you run into anything really unexpected, let me know.
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« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2011, 02:21:56 am »
I'm not seeing the normal metal colored background here.  Just a plain white background with blue links.
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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2011, 01:08:50 pm »
Quote from: toddr on October 05, 2011, 02:21:56 am
I'm not seeing the normal metal colored background here.  Just a plain white background with blue links.
Same here, I'm also experiencing a excess load time and none of the images are appearing.
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keith
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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2011, 02:54:45 pm »
Yup, that's beacuse some of these images are logged in code and database as shadowmoor.net. And I totally forgot some things were linked that way. It'll be showing up a lot faster within a few hours as DNS catches up.
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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2011, 07:14:43 pm »
Yay, fixed!
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« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2011, 07:13:04 pm »
*nervous twitches*  Yes....  I was about to go to the local clinic and ask for some 'Smoor Forum....   *taps arms*  JUST PUT IT IN MY VEINS!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2011, 10:59:16 am »
yeah, even I called Bryan to see if his forums were done on his computer.   Just am not used to not seeing them at least once a day.   
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