Site offline

[Buster's Uncle]

-Yesterday was a very frustrating day, for me.  I couldn't get onto AC2 for a whole hour - and later, my internet access went away entirely.  Combined with a very late start to the day, due to insomnia, I was only on here a few hours. 

[Vishniac]

I don't know whether it belongs here or not but there is often some forum interruption, like this morning (CET).

[Buster's Uncle]

Known issue with the autobackup we're running at night - second time this week I've had to buzz sisko first thing (he rebooted and the problem went away) when I got up and didn't want to have to deal with tech problems -or anything complex and frustrating at all- yet.  Our three tech guys have been informed - it's t_ras' fault but I really hope Draz takes an interest.  The other two are currently in RL time-heck...

There should be an outage every night, US Eastern time, while the backup's in progress, but I think t has it put up a page I made with a big pic of Roze and a joke about tagging our data when that's going on.

I'll move these two posts to a better thread...

[Geo]

Talking about malfunctions, is something wrong with the wiki? I see a number of "Warning: invalid argument supplied..." lines at the top of the page.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've set up a four-way FB message with our tech support, since that works best for sisko and t_ras, and emailed Draz to look in.  If you had the problem only just now, it may have been caused by Draz' server fiddling on the backup problem.  I've reported your report, there.

We take these issues seriously, and apologize for the inconvenience.

[Unorthodox]

getting a 404 most of yesterday? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes, for about five fours, 8:06 to 12:45 EST.  Some over-ambitious server maintenance went pear-shaped, I'm told.  We're trying to get things shipshape -performance has been less than optimal- and setbacks happen.

Problems of aggressive nut-and-bolts tech maintenance are the sort you want to have (as opposed to the common let-things-slide kind) in the long run.

[Buster's Uncle]

Talking about malfunctions, is something wrong with the wiki? I see a number of "Warning: invalid argument supplied..." lines at the top of the page.

Happily, my man Draz has fixed this.  His power is MAX.

I think t has it put up a page I made with a big pic of Roze and a joke about tagging our data

For the amusement of AC2's many fans, attached is the latest version of said page.  Chances are not terrific that the Wiki will be up independently, but the rest are .htm pages I uploaded to our server that will work if the server's working and you see this page.

Note to our tech guys: I have a copy in the BU Junk folder -which probably ought to be moved up a level- but I'm aware that when I put it up last night, only people going to a bare "http://alphacentauri2.info/" could see it - if someone would make me a short index.php that would direct users to the down page -or something I could just easily activate/throw up in a hurry when it's the forum software and not the server- and put it in the folder, that would be convenient, me being the one who's most likely to be around first for a downage...

[Buster's Uncle]

Draz has put up an AC2 mirror test site, BTW, which is going to make some tech things incredibly easier.

-Also, my Firefox will actually log on, there.

[Buster's Uncle]

We're having server problems the last hour or so -- seems to be our host, whom I have the obnoxious duty of paying for their crappy service this month.

We're migrating hosting to somewhere professional as soon as I can talk a tech guy into doing it - it's way over my head.