Where did the forum go?

[pinefamily]

Hi all,
What happened to APS for the last couple of days? Was there some maintenance I missed?

 

[Administrator]

Hi All,

I was away on a camping trip with the family when the site went down, so I was not aware of the issue until I got back to civilization. When I did, I found that a couple of the largest database tables had crashed. I spent this morning repairing and recovering the tables and the site should how be working again.

I am in the process of putting in place some changes to avoid such an issue in future. The site may run a little slow over the next few hours while I do so, but once it is complete, this should reduce the chance of such a long outage in future.

Thanks for your patience.

Adam

 

[RoryBreaker]

RDU and ARF were/and are still down too.

As a user who shuns Stalkbook, there was a shortage of Aussie herp content there for a while.

 

[arevenant]

Perhaps a lot of people did things that involved not being on a computer.
I do believe there was some form of worldwide celebration just this past week, but very vague on the details...

 

[pinefamily]

Only a rumour......

 

[cagey]

Adam

Thanks for all the work of you, the other administrators and moderators for keeping this forum going.

Have a great NYE and 2015.

 

[FAY]

How dare you go camping Adam, ya know the world evolves around the internet :lol:

 

[MrVic]

Corrupt DB tables in VB, unheard of

 

[rajohn1]

I know that the problem with the Adelaide Reptile Forum was a faulty drive on the server., I think that there may be other forums running off the same server. I didn't have much notice ( I run that forum) , so most forum members didn't know the system was going down. It was taken down about 4 am to copy the faulty drive, however as the drive was on it last legs it took many hours to get the data off instead of just a couple of hours.