What happened?

Post by **Monty** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:19

Why has the forum been down for the last day and a bit?

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:26

SQL Errors dude

Thats what I was getting... Im sure Ron will post an explanation pretty soon

Prime · Post by **Prime** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:29

um, i think the company that hosts the site went down

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:30

Prime wrote:um, i think the company that hosts the site went down

+1

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:32

Prime wrote:um, i think the company that hosts the site went down

Last i knew, PCF was hosted in the PCF office!

I'm sure they've changed it since, but when we had the meet at the PCF offices last year, we saw the machine that was hosting the forum. Looked like an old school P4.

Bladerunner · Post by **Bladerunner** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:39

Well I didnt even get SQL errors.

Simply said "connection interrupted" when trying to connect to www.pcformat.co.za and "Will go live soon!" for forums.pcformat.co.za

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:42

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:
Prime wrote:um, i think the company that hosts the site went down
Last i knew, PCF was hosted in the PCF office!

I'm sure they've changed it since, but when we had the meet at the PCF offices last year, we saw the machine that was hosting the forum. Looked like an old school P4.

I don't think so.....To host a web-server you need far more dedicated bandwidth that you can get at a normal sized office. Dedicated bandwidth in SA is insanely expensive. LAst we asked IS we got a quote for R100k for a 6mb line.....

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:49

Nuke wrote:
DAE_JA_VOO wrote:
Prime wrote:um, i think the company that hosts the site went down
Last i knew, PCF was hosted in the PCF office!

I'm sure they've changed it since, but when we had the meet at the PCF offices last year, we saw the machine that was hosting the forum. Looked like an old school P4.
I don't think so.....To host a web-server you need far more dedicated bandwidth that you can get at a normal sized office. Dedicated bandwidth in SA is insanely expensive. LAst we asked IS we got a quote for R100k for a 6mb line.....

Just telling you what i was told by PCF

Bladerunner · Post by **Bladerunner** » 24 Aug 2008, 13:51

Nuke wrote:
DAE_JA_VOO wrote:
Prime wrote:um, i think the company that hosts the site went down
Last i knew, PCF was hosted in the PCF office!

I'm sure they've changed it since, but when we had the meet at the PCF offices last year, we saw the machine that was hosting the forum. Looked like an old school P4.
I don't think so.....To host a web-server you need far more dedicated bandwidth that you can get at a normal sized office. Dedicated bandwidth in SA is insanely expensive. LAst we asked IS we got a quote for R100k for a 6mb line.....

Hmm, but how many active users are there on PCF? Enough to really require such a line?

Prime · Post by **Prime** » 24 Aug 2008, 15:16

Er, i somehow can't see the forums being run off a p4 from pcf's offices. That might have been their mail server? And if pcf is downloading files for the cover disk, then that line is going to be pretty busy.

its possible that was the server, but from what i understand from a discussion with ron yesterday, the sight is hosted else where.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 24 Aug 2008, 15:21

Yeah, Ron told me yesterday that he contacted "the hosting guys". So I dunno.

Post by **Ron2K** » 24 Aug 2008, 15:59

Apparently the server was being moved from one datacentre to another. PCF was notified, but for some reason the message never found its way to Dalfers or myself, so I never knew about it.

Post by **Stuart** » 24 Aug 2008, 16:23

Ron2K wrote:Apparently the server was being moved from one datacentre to another. PCF was notified, but for some reason the message never found its way to Dalfers or myself, so I never knew about it.

That's one theory. The other is that Kronos banned everyone for the weekend just for the fun of it.

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 24 Aug 2008, 17:07

Shame poor Ronny - he was bugged at his lan by a certain feline. She is very sorry as she does realise that there was nothing he could do

Thanks for calling to explain.

DJT · Post by **DJT** » 24 Aug 2008, 17:16

Won, if i were you i would make heads roll for the lapse in communication. How much do you think GBs or Stu's therapy is gonna cost for abandonment issues?

Nice to have it back tho. Bring on the spam

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Aug 2008, 17:17

Stuart wrote:
Ron2K wrote:Apparently the server was being moved from one datacentre to another. PCF was notified, but for some reason the message never found its way to Dalfers or myself, so I never knew about it.
That's one theory. The other is that Kronos banned everyone for the weekend just for the fun of it.

The latter being far more likely

Post by **Stuart** » 24 Aug 2008, 17:20

DJT wrote:Won, if i were you i would make heads roll for the lapse in communication. How much do you think GBs or Stu's therapy is gonna cost for abandonment issues?

Don't worry ... the bill is being sent straight to Ron. I had to resort to Won-Won's crowd on IRC last night for entertainment.

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:
Stuart wrote:
Ron2K wrote:Apparently the server was being moved from one datacentre to another. PCF was notified, but for some reason the message never found its way to Dalfers or myself, so I never knew about it.
That's one theory. The other is that Kronos banned everyone for the weekend just for the fun of it.
The latter being far more likely

Tribble can't fathom that Kronos would be so evil, but I have tried to assure her that it's quite possible with him.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Aug 2008, 17:58

I've met the guy in real life. He's got the crazy eyes!

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 24 Aug 2008, 18:14

Stuart wrote:Don't worry ... the bill is being sent straight to Ron. I had to resort to Won-Won's crowd on IRC last night for entertainment.

Tribble can't fathom that Kronos would be so evil, but I have tried to assure her that it's quite possible with him.

So you were there

Probably waited for me to leave first

Naah I don't believe Kronos would do that.

Post by **Stuart** » 24 Aug 2008, 18:52

Tribble wrote:
Stuart wrote:Don't worry ... the bill is being sent straight to Ron. I had to resort to Won-Won's crowd on IRC last night for entertainment.
So you were there Probably waited for me to leave first

Nah, it just took me that long to figure out how to get connected. Never used IRC before last night. But it was after you left, yes.

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 24 Aug 2008, 18:54

Stuart wrote:Nah, it just took me that long to figure out how to get connected. Never used IRC before last night. But it was after you left, yes.

Well at least you did make it

CountZero · Post by **CountZero** » 24 Aug 2008, 19:23

Glad PFC is back!

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 24 Aug 2008, 19:26

CountZero wrote:Glad PFC is back!

x10 000 000

Post by **Dalfers** » 24 Aug 2008, 19:38

Hey all... sorry about that one. We host offsite and the company were moving their servers. Apparently an email was sent out but nothing came through my side. On the bright side at least we all got to see some sun this weekend

Post by **Stuart** » 24 Aug 2008, 19:50

Dalfers wrote:Hey all... sorry about that one. We host offsite and the company were moving their servers. Apparently an email was sent out but nothing came through my side. On the bright side at least we all got to see some sun this weekend

Er, no, we all just sat inside in front of our computers CTRL+F5ing it every ten seconds for two days straight.

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