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Site offline
« on: October 30, 2012, 12:02:17 PM »
After a short offline period on Friday, AC2 was down for more than 3 hours tonight (GMT).
It turns out that our server has suffered some mysterious "issues":

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Hi there,

The server your site is located on has had a few issues recently, we hope to now have these fully resolved, your site should now be stable.

Best Regards

The AC2 staff is very sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused you and we really hope these problems are solved now.

« Last Edit: November 04, 2012, 08:07:57 PM by sisko »
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 08:12:11 PM »
the site was down again for a full hour this time. again some server issues that were addressed.  ;clenchedteeth
this is very annoying and we'll start looking for other hosting options.

sorry again.
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 08:20:12 PM »
I was trying to get sisko to pass along death threats from me, if that's any comfort.  I bleeping LIVE here, and BOY do I mind when crap like this happens.

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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2012, 08:17:19 AM »
the site was down for an hour. looks like the the host did some unannounced maintenance work.  ;clenchedteeth
we're sorry for that.
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2014, 08:48:29 PM »
Couldn't find a better thread to note that I couldn't logon this A.M.: Wednesday, April 9, 2014, between 7 and 8 EDT. Everything's cool 8) after about 8:15-ish.
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2014, 08:51:52 PM »
That would be a failure partly on my part and partly of the hosting service.  I deposited slightly over six months' worth of server fees late last month and assumed it would deduct automatically, as it did the last time I made a large deposit, last year when I assumed half-ownership. 

I was wrong not to be more diligent and less trusting.  It was fixed within 15 minutes of me getting online this morning.

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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2014, 09:57:27 PM »
Ah, that was why I couldn't connect to the forum around noon today. :P

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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2014, 10:09:26 PM »
Oh. 

Noon in Euro time.  You threw me for a second there; I fixed it before 8am, EDT...

...With my money.  No refunds... ;)

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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2014, 10:46:14 PM »
Consider it well spent.
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2014, 06:30:29 AM »
Our site was offline for approximately 4 hours yesterday. The outage was caused by a ddos attack on the servers of our host.
Mysql issues are still present, but should be fixed within 24 hours. Please report anything that's malfunctioning.

We are terribly sorry for any inconvenience caused by this incident. 
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2014, 10:24:44 AM »
Sorry for the blackout. It looks like it was related to our daily backup.
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2014, 04:51:17 PM »
Maybe it would be worth moving to weekly backups? Daily is good, but if it's resource intensive weekly should be fine for most purposes.

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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2015, 09:05:52 PM »
The site was offline again for 20 minutes or so. It looks like our host doesn't want our money, anymore..
We are very sorry for the outage.
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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2015, 01:25:36 AM »
It looks like our host doesn't want our money, anymore...

Does this there's going to be a change of host in the foreseeable future?

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Re: Site offline (again)
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2015, 01:58:50 AM »
Probably.

 

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