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« on: March 06, 2008, 06:56:44 PM » |
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Too exhausted to type more.. Long update will follow later. But the real credit for the site being back up is due to long time DC member Gothic ( John Sennesael) who is single-handedly responsible for migrating us to an entirely new server. He spent the last 5 days straight working on it, and there was a lot of work involved (we basically re-did everything from scratch and moved from a cpanel system to a manual configuration, and took the opportunity to tighten everything down, clean up a lot of old junk, etc.). Words cannot express how grateful I am to John and how lucky we all were to have him be willing to put so much work into the process. Thank you! [thread discussing what brought us down has been started here] |
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« Last Edit: March 07, 2008, 08:28:35 AM by mouser »
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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2008, 07:22:31 PM » |
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Welcome back!!!
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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2008, 07:28:42 PM » |
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Thank you, John
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Lew
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Deozaan
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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2008, 07:43:45 PM » |
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Hooray! Thanks mouser and wordzilla and Gothic!
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2008, 08:09:27 PM » |
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Nice to have our second home back again - this time fortress-style. Hope you'll consider the virtualization stuff ( OpenVZ sounds particularly interesting/appealing to me), or perhaps (if you now have multiple servers, and will keep at least one), move non-forum/main-donationcoder stuff to a secondary server? PS: perhaps there should still be a notice on the front page about the hack, in the (unlikely?  ) case somebody has been bitten but hasn't checked DC in the down period... |
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Gothi[c]
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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2008, 08:15:31 PM » |
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Not yet fortress style really. We're on a pretty-much default softlayer setup now. We're using this as a temporary server so we can take our time setting up the fortress setup. And I am definitively considering virtualization. We can do some performance tests on that when we have the new server, since there won't be such a time-rush. All non-forum / main donationcoder stuff has always been on a secondary server. (with the exception for that svn server mouser recently installed and seems to have doomed us, though I guess there is no way to be 100% sure) |
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« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2008, 08:19:28 PM » |
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By the way, i LOVE the cody image!!  |
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« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2008, 08:20:20 PM » |
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ps: f0dder .. since you seem to be monitoring the forum and not the irc channel OP MOUSERBOT !!! |
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« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2008, 08:20:57 PM » |
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Welcome back, great to see the site up and running again! |
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Registered nurse by day, hobby programmer by night.
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« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2008, 08:21:32 PM » |
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Like it was never gone.  |
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« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2008, 08:22:38 PM » |
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Wonderful news and great to have DC back up again.
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Carol Haynes
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« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2008, 08:26:55 PM » |
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Don't know about other people but my withdrawal symptoms have been great.
Never mind going for walks (which I can't anyway as I have a foot injury) or looking out of the window ....
Thanks guys for all the hard work and welcome back online!
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« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2008, 08:33:40 PM » |
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We should say that there are probably a few things broken here or there -- when you find something not working, can you email me ( mouser@donationcoder.com). |
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« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2008, 08:36:23 PM » |
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Yay!! Welcome back!!
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« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2008, 08:47:45 PM » |
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w00t! I'm with Carol - the withdrawal symptoms were BAD  Welcome back and thank you! |
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"Some people have a way with words, other people,... oh... have not way" - Steve Martin
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« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2008, 08:50:39 PM » |
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Ahhh - Finally back up! Great work mouser and Gothi[c]!!
And Carol is right -- the withdrawal pains were massive! I need a good, long fix now. You don't know just how much you miss something - until it's not available.
Again, thanks for the hard work to get the site back up.
Jim
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« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2008, 09:10:35 PM » |
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You don't know just how much you miss something - until it's not available.
Amen to that! Thanks for getting things back and running!!! |
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« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2008, 10:08:32 PM » |
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Nice to be back!
Thank you very much to those involved in the recovery.
There's obviously been a lot of hard work involved and it's very much appreciated!
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« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2008, 10:16:36 PM » |
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Welcome back and thanks to you all. I do know how much work it must have been to get it all up again so quickly.
Thanks also for putting so much info up while the site was being reinstated.
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« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2008, 10:55:57 PM » |
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« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2008, 11:45:31 PM » |
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Good to be back! Thanks John!
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« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2008, 11:48:08 PM » |
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Don't forget wordzilla He borrowed us one of his servers to host the down notice page. |
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« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2008, 12:21:22 AM » |
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Welcome back, guys! We missed ya.
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« Reply #24 on: March 07, 2008, 12:26:20 AM » |
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It's so nice to see the site again! I panicked when I couldn't get on to post on Sunday. Hope that everything is for the better now, and we never see a repeat of anything like that again. |
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