What was the Issue? (extended downtime)

[Buttercup]

Things aren't moving much faster now. In fact, EN World is so slow that I think I'll just spend the evening being productive instead.

 

[Crothian]

It's been slow but we don't need a special place to know what's wrong.

 

[Painfully]

Personally, I think cyberstreet is the problem. Whenever EN World is down, the rest of the internet is just fine for me. It's become quite the regular trend.

I think ENWorld needs to move to a new host, far, far away from cyberstreet (virtually speaking).

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I'm disgusted. We Enworlders shouldnt have to go to nutkinland to get info on why enworld is down. Its a vile and disgusting place and Erics Grandma has no hold there!

Innocent Enworlders should not be exposed to that place.

Might I suggest using the Enworld Live Journal Community to post news updates when the site is down?

Thus everyone can get the news in a nice docile enviroment.

Here is the current En World Live Journal Community
http://www.livejournal.com/community/enworldlj/

Nobody has posted there since October, and I think the original moderator abandoned it.

Live Journal used to require codes but no longer does and accounts are free, so are communities.

I can easily create a new En LJ Community and set PC/Darkness/Morrus as mods (i think) and then whenever Enworld is down that journal community can be used for people to keep aprised.

Also it would be cool to use it as a status journal of updates to the site, and server etc etc.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Personally, I think cyberstreet is the problem. Whenever EN World is down, the rest of the internet is just fine for me. It's become quite the regular trend.

I think ENWorld needs to move to a new host, far, far away from cyberstreet (virtually speaking).

I told morrus id volunteer my time to locate a suitable hosting company back when the donation drive was going on, however he decided to stay with cyberstreet since they were so helpfull.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Things aren't moving much faster now. In fact, EN World is so slow that I think I'll just spend the evening being productive instead.

I'm just happy it's up! My addiction gives me inhuman patience. I hope you have a productive evening though.

Arthur I think your right on the bandwidth and I wonder just how much of an issue Cyberstreet causes ENworld.

This morning/last night I would love to have had an update I went to nutkinland but it's not really the message board I would like...

I'm smart enough to know what the issue is usually SQL errors are ENworld only and can't find ENworld at all is cyberstreet's fault so I don't need the updates for regular downtimes but I wouldn't have minded a place to go last night.

 

[Piratecat]

Thus everyone can get the news in a nice docile enviroment.

Woof. Either you just like poking bee hives or (most likely) your humor is very subtle indeed. In either case, I recommend a policy of live and let live. Insulting one board from the safety of another one isn't something we wish to encourage from anyone, please.

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When there is information about problems here one of us will generally post in the "General" forum at Nutkinland, updating folks.

Right now the boards are slow. As far as I can tell this is different than our normal database problems, although I'll turn them off for a few minutes a bit later and see if there is still a problem.

A lot of you guys are mistaking cyberstreet (our host) for the problems with our server. Cyberstreet are pretty good guys. Our server, unfortunately, is no longer sufficient for the amount we have grown. This is what you're seeing when you see slowdowns. Once we get a hot new server and make sure we have enough bandwidth, we'll be all set.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

PC, i just dont want to go there to have to find news or Enworlds status. I dont like going there at all, and I dont like being out of the loop either.

A "status" board seprate from the current server, yet not imbedded in another community would be a nice thing to have should the site go down. Kind of like a backdoor.

Its just not fair that nutkinlanders get apprised of enworlds status when enworld is down, and enworlders do not (or have to resort going to nutkinland, which they shouldnt have too.)

I you see my logic? I hope?

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Quick question, you dont perchance have the stats on what the new server is?

Motherboard, processor, ghz speed, ram speed, etc etc.

 

[Crothian]

PC, i just dont want to go there to have to find news or Enworlds status. I dont like going there at all, and I dont like being out of the loop either.

The answer to me seems obvious. All Admins need to have ArthurQ's phone number on a post it to their monitor. That way, any problems happen they can immidiately call him 24/7 to keep him appraised of the workings of EN World.