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

SQL Errors dude

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

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

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

+1

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.

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

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.....

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Glad PFC is back!

CountZero wrote:Glad PFC is back!

x10 000 000

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

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.