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Andy · **Post subject:** Outage **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:52 pm

The recent outage was caused by a series of crashed services, which included FTP, DNS and E-mail. Unfortunately nobody notified me of these issues and as my e-mail was down I didn't receive any down notifications. I only noticed when my homepage wouldn't load.

Apologies to anyone trying to get to the site or download at the time.

Andy (Admin)

EDIT: I've now put into a place a fail-safe that restarts crashed/stopped services every 10 minutes to reduce the impact of this happening in future.

FoobyZeeky · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:54 pm

Heh, it just went up on FileZilla's second connection retry just now. How long was the server down for, because it was up last time I was on (which I think was an hour ago but I'm not sure)?

Andy · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:55 pm

According to the graphs, about 50 minutes. HTTP and MySQL was up, but as DNS was very few people could get to the site, only those who had it cached could.

TheCollector1988 · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:06 pm

good now to fix it

, and luckly it's back to normal

Taylorover9000 · 6.1.7850

I'm Glad its up again!

DeFacto · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:28 pm

Yup, I recieved some SQL and internal server errors... but works OK now.

Taylorover9000 · 6.1.7850

DeFacto wrote:

Yup, I recieved some SQL and internal server errors... but works OK now.

It works now

Offtopic Comment

I know I already said that

and I used to get a DNS error.

rootbeerblue45 · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:41 am

kewl it's uup again!

compgeke · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 4:36 am

Just wondering, do you know what caused the services to crash?

Andy · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:28 am

Well some people complained the site was slow, so I restarted some of the services. Presumably some of them didn't come back up and I didn't realise.

koepke962 · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:55 pm

Lucky if you have Google Chrome you can have your cached version come up.

hounsell · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 5:40 pm

koepke962 wrote:

Lucky if you have Google Chrome you can have your cached version come up.

You are aware every browser has a cache?

I personally consider it bad practice to cache whole sites though - if it's offline, it shouldn't just load the cached version.

koepke962 · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:16 pm

Yeah, I know that but i think Google's cached website is easier to get at. (in my opinion)

But i have the whole website cached on my external hdd. :cool:

mahirh · **Post subject:** Re: Outage **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:10 am

koepke962 wrote:

Lucky if you have Google Chrome you can have your cached version come up.

im sure he was talking about the system dns cache

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