WotC boards down - Technical Difficulties?

[Khairn]

I've been trying to get on the WotC boards, but they have been down due to "Technical Difficulties" all day. Has anyone heard anything about when they'll be back up?

 

[Mouseferatu]

For the last several days, they've had a notice up about downtime starting Thursday morning. I think it's supposed to last a day or so, but I could be misremembering.

 

[WhatGravitas]

For the last several days, they've had a notice up about downtime starting Thursday morning. I think it's supposed to last a day or so, but I could be misremembering.

IIRC, the notice mentioned a downtime of 25 hours (24 hours + 1 hour backup). I've read something in the metaboards... they're trying to get the search working. Again. Good luck...

 

[Corsair]

They should hire google.

 

[TroyXavier]

Wizards and GIITP boards both down...thank goodness for ENWorld for my gaming forum needs.

 

[Ranger REG]

Wizards and GIITP boards both down...thank goodness for ENWorld for my gaming forum needs.

Until it needs to go down for maintenance.

Funny, Wizards boards has to go down every night for a couple of hours due to maintenance, but not once did this board has to do that on a daily basis.

 

[Transit]

I've got an idea.

Since their site seems to go up and down all the time, maybe Wizards should consider publishing content in a printed magazine format rather than depending entirely upon digital distribution.

 

[Michael Morris]

Until it needs to go down for maintenance.

Funny, Wizards boards has to go down every night for a couple of hours due to maintenance, but not once did this board has to do that on a daily basis.

Their board goes down nightly for backups, something I haven't had the time to write a script for here, but I need to do once we get some more hard drive space. There's also an archiving script running that moves old threads into a separate db.

 

[Festivus]

A proper system would have snapshot capabilities, so that the backup impact time would take only a few seconds.

Bah, I should go dust off my resume and fix it for them. I sure hope their digital initiative stuff includes a SAN and multiple front end servers.

 

[SavageRobby]

Or they could simply have a slaved backup database, from which they could backup all the data, leaving the master running 24/7, and only periodically (which in my world means quarterly, not nightly) bring it down for integrity checks.