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Old 08-22-2008, 12:47 PM   #1
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After nearly 9 hours of downtime, the site database has been repaired and everything is back to normal! We apologize for the inconvenience; however, the errors were caused by an unexpected technical problem in the datacenter that was out of our control.

What caused the problem is that at about 6:30 PM MST yesterday, one of the server racks in our datacenter faced an unexpected shutdown. This massive reboot operation also affected the server which hosts our site, and as a result, several forum database tables were corrupted due to incomplete data inserts at the time of the shutdown.

I have since both repaired certain tables myself, and also contacted the server technicians to make sure everything else was working properly. Please report any further errors you may encounter in this thread- though there shouldn't be any.

Once again, my apologies for the downtime.
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Old 08-22-2008, 12:53 PM   #2
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Good that we're back. Thanks for the effort
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Old 08-22-2008, 01:07 PM   #3
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Good work Adam, thank you.
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Old 08-22-2008, 01:09 PM   #4
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Yes, thank you Adam, and thanks for the email letting us know as well. Withdrawal symptoms were starting to form...
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Old 08-22-2008, 01:26 PM   #5
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Yes, thank you Adam, and thanks for the email letting us know as well. Withdrawal symptoms were starting to form...
No Lie! And I was in the middle of not 1, but two Lens purchases from members and awaiting PM's from them...when "Poof"!

Thanks Adam for all you do for this site! Sometimes, stuff just happens...


Edit...LOL! I tried to post this and it went "Poof" again! (Database Error) Backed up, tried again, got the 25sec rule...Hmmm. Tried again, DB error still. This post may never go live!
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Old 08-22-2008, 01:26 PM   #6
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Nice job Adam, and thanks for the mail with explanation.
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Old 08-22-2008, 01:32 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by JETninja View Post
No Lie! And I was in the middle of not 1, but two Lens purchases from members and awaiting PM's from them...when "Poof"!

Thanks Adam for all you do for this site! Sometimes, stuff just happens...


Edit...LOL! I tried to post this and it went "Poof" again! (Database Error) Backed up, tried again, got the 25sec rule...Hmmm. Tried again, DB error still. This post may never go live!
Fixed that now. The error was caused because the forum thought that such a post id already existed, yet that was merely an incomplete insert from your previous posting attempts.
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Old 08-22-2008, 01:53 PM   #8
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Bummer, but great work getting things back together!! Thanks Adam!!
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Thanks for all your hard work, Adam. It's great to have the site back up and running again!
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woohoo ... i kept on checking back to see when it was up
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Thanks Adam!

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...and here i was thinking to myself, "Did i do that?"
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Those server boys ought to know it's really bad to leave Pentaxians without their daily dose.
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Fixing the tables yourself . . .You rock Adam!
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