adminstrator_p15d24ph Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 We had a serious database server issue that was not recoverable with the usual database repair utilities. While very unusual in it's severity we do daily site backups to provide a method of recovery when it does happen. Unfortunately the recovery from backup usually results in loss of data that was processed during the day after the backup was run. In this case transactions after 9:00 am PST forward can not be recovered. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Quote
P15-D24 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Posted January 26, 2015 ISP got back with regarding root cause for this outage. (The database used is typically rock solid, in use by thousands of sites worldwide) Specifically we had a large number of users and search engine bots hitting the server at the same time causing it to run out of both physical and swap memory. Bad news it caused a crash, good news it is it means the site is continuing to grow! We have a plan ready if it becomes a more common issue. Quote
Frank Elder Posted February 22, 2015 Report Posted February 22, 2015 Growing pains.....I remember when it took part of the day to get a response on here......we had that few members! Quote
pflaming Posted February 23, 2015 Report Posted February 23, 2015 Lots of people snowed in with nothing to do. Quote
Frank Elder Posted February 23, 2015 Report Posted February 23, 2015 Lots of people snowed in with nothing to do. We shall see 8 to 10 months from now...record snow might bring record births this year! Quote
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