Unplanned Downtime

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msleeper
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Posted Aug 03, 2011
As some of you may have noticed, the site was down for a few hours. The server's hard drive went read-only due to some sort of filesystem error. I am still investigating the exact cause, but given that there were some physical drive errors performed during the file system check that was ran while I was getting the server back up, I may wind up replacing the drive later this week or this weekend.

No data was lost, and we have nightly backups of the entire site so there wouldn't have been much lost anyway. I'll post here if/when I will plan on replacing the server's drive.

Keep calm and continue testing. Thanks.

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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
Posted Aug 03, 2011
Replied 6 hours later

msleeper wrote:
Keep calm and continue testing. Thanks.

The tee didn't make me laugh but that guy did

Last night I tried to access TWP and my computer got a blue screen of death, then said 'virtual memory overflow'. Perhaps it was a spam attack to the php or something?

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KenJeKenny!?
238 Posts
Posted Aug 04, 2011
Replied 11 hours later

chickenmobile wrote:
msleeper wrote:

Keep calm and continue testing. Thanks.

The tee didn't make me laugh but that guy did

Last night I tried to access TWP and my computer got a blue screen of death, then said 'virtual memory overflow'. Perhaps it was a spam attack to the php or something?

That shouldn't envoke a BSOD... Sounds more like a faulty windows installation or bad memory spots :S

OT: Never noticed a thing

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ChickenMobile
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Posted Aug 04, 2011
Replied 19 minutes later

KenJeKenny!? wrote:
That shouldn't envoke a BSOD... Sounds more like a faulty windows installation or bad memory spots :S

Yes: because only running Hammer, Photoshop and Google Chrome will give me a blue screen of death when I can run 3 high end games at the same time no problem.

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iWork925
1,080 Posts
Posted Aug 04, 2011
Replied 9 hours later
cough i believe you were also running oblivion...
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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
Posted Aug 05, 2011
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iWork925 wrote:
cough i believe you were also running oblivion...

Ahem... maybe

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MasterLagger
1,695 Posts
Posted Aug 05, 2011
Replied 17 hours later
My computer window said "Failure to connect to server." But it wasn't a big deal with me.

BTW "Running Oblivion" would make a great escape themed map name.

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walropodes
39 Posts
Posted Aug 06, 2011
Replied 5 hours later

chickenmobile wrote:
msleeper wrote:

Keep calm and continue testing. Thanks.

The tee didn't make me laugh but that guy did

Last night I tried to access TWP and my computer got a blue screen of death, then said 'virtual memory overflow'. Perhaps it was a spam attack to the php or something?

Google Chrome wouldn't let a web page have enough access to your operating system to let something like that happen. Something else is probably getting screwy.

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Hober
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Posted Aug 06, 2011
Replied 13 hours later
Yeah, a BSOD isn't consistent with the website being down. You've got bigger PC problems. Try checking your power supply; it's usually responsible for the most bizarre failures.