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Author Topic: Website went down for about 6 hours or so  (Read 6584 times)

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Website went down for about 6 hours or so
« on: October 09, 2005, 11:47 AM »
Sunday Morning Downtime:

The hosting company had scheduled maintenance that was supposed to take less than 30 minutes.
It ended up taking 6 or 7 hours.  Seems back up now though i'm not 100% convinced it won't go down again as they complete the process.

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Re: Website went down for about 6 hours or so
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2005, 12:33 PM »
Thought you might be risking the forum upgrade ...

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Re: Website went down for about 6 hours or so
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2005, 01:20 PM »
Iam glad the community is back...
i was a little bit nervous this afternoon (MEZ) (Forum Time 14:20, my Time 20:20)

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Re: Website went down for about 6 hours or so
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2005, 06:40 PM »
Would be nice if you could announce down-times that you know about here (and add a "might take longer" :) ) - then we won't need to hit F5 for hours ;)

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Re: Website went down for about 6 hours or so
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2005, 10:46 PM »
yes, i usually try to pre-announce preplanned downtimes, i apologize for that, i simply forgot this one was planned (it was done by the hosting company not me), and it was supposed to be only a few minutes.  hahah i know, i'm learning that's often just wishfull thinking :)

maybe we should set up like a separate alternate place where if the site goes down people can go for more info and discussion; like an offsite blogger.com page or something.  seems like a good idea. i'll set it up.

also people, if you ever find the site down you can join us for chat on our irc channel, which i am on most of the time.  more info here:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=772.0

(irc visitors even found out about a secret unreleased donationcoder.com app on the irc channel the other day, so that's more incentive for you :))