VSN Downtime

[Argath]

As many of you know, we will be moving from our shared hosting to a new VPS I recently purchased. In order to do this I must take the forums down for a few hours. I plan on doing this tonight around 11PM EST. This should fix all of our problems we've been recently having.

[killgod]

A few hours down on Madden launch day.

Brilliant.

[MrBill]

People are numb to VSN outages.

[Maynard]

As many of you know, we will be moving from our shared hosting to a new VPS I recently purchased. In order to do this I must take the forums down for a few hours. I plan on doing this tonight around 11PM EST. This should fix all of our problems we've been recently having.

havnt we heard this before?

[killgod]

havnt we heard this before?

It's Caro.net's fault.

:lolwut:

[Argath]

A few hours down on Madden launch day.

Brilliant.

It's going to be down regardless, whether due to the mysql crashing or moving to another server.

havnt we heard this before?

All the issues we've been having are coming from 2 problems.

1. The mysql on our server right now is crashing because we've put too many big forums on one server.

2. The vbseo on the old forum PHP files is apparently corrupt and is fucking up.


We're fixing both of these problems by moving to our own Virtual Private Server(VPS) and reinstalling all forum PHP files. No posts/reputation etc will be lost. We will lose forum skins and the tracker, but those can be easily added back on. Write down your scores before we switch servers and just recreate the games when the mod is added back on.

[IamMedellin]

oh no...

The j00 is selling vsn again..

[Point Blank]

The wrong day for this bullshit.

[Rudi]

Worst timing ever.

[Argath]

as of right now we're going down every 2-3 hours for anywhere from 2-10 minutes.


This switch will take at most 2 hours and in most cases may take no more than 5-10 minutes.

[killgod]

as of right now we're going down every 2-3 hours for anywhere from 2-10 minutes.


This switch will take at most 2 hours and in most cases may take no more than 5-10 minutes.

Yeah we get that and all, we still think you suck for choosing today, rather than......I don't know.....yesterday? last weekend? last week? last month?


Today is supposed to be the busiest day of the year for a sports gaming forum.

[Argath]

Yeah we get that and all, we still think you suck for choosing today, rather than......I don't know.....yesterday? last weekend? last week? last month?


Today is supposed to be the busiest day of the year for a sports gaming forum.

[killgod]

That's more like it.

All these srs responses by you had me worried.

[Argath]

Do it at 3am when nobody is on except me and goosedennis.

That's a great idea except I'm not staying up till 4 or 5 AM to make sure everything works :marshmellow:

[lawson11]

After we change servers something new is coming to VSN Daily....