Explanation for the forums being offline

[Marked 197]

The reason the forums were offline (for about 20 hours, and 10 hours the previous night) was because we were transferring databases. It was necessary to shut down the forum so no one could post anything, otherwise those posts would be deleted because they are not in the original backup that was being uploaded.

 

It was a very time consuming process, but it appears to be a success. I tried to do it with most members would be asleep, but after 9 hours (at 5am) I gave up and went to sleep. And it took a further 4 hours to complete after I got up.

 

So sorry about the inconvenience, but I'm sure it will be worth it in the long run :) If anyone experiences any database errors anywhere on the site, please report them to me via PM or in this topic.

[Polraudio 122]

Glad everything went good. So far i noticed everything loading super fast. Normally it takes 5-10sec to load the site and forums, now its instantly :).

[Marked 197]

Yeah, lets hope it lasts.

[isaacsol 10]

The speed increase might also be because we are on a newer database server. Hopefully it will last.

[Bigace360 38]

lol, ironically I wasn't even at a computer for those 2 days. However, the site speed has shown a increase which is good, I'll help out as usual to find any errors that appear on the site.

[Bob423 52]

dude, you're right this place IS faster! i love it. :D

[Marked 197]

lol, ironically I wasn't even at a computer for those 2 days. However, the site speed has shown a increase which is good, I'll help out as usual to find any errors that appear on the site.

Great, thanks :D

[RageMage 5]

Hey Marked I think have found a small bug that just started showing up today, when you get a notification to a reply to status it will send the notification message several times, it didn't do this before the maintenance and it really isn't more than just something I've noticed.

[Bigace360 38]

Hey Marked I think have found a small bug that just started showing up today, when you get a notification to a reply to status it will send the notification message several times, it didn't do this before the maintenance and it really isn't more than just something I've noticed.

 

lol, just notice that. It's practically telling me that Marked posted in his status 8 times?

[Marked 197]

Oh ok. Yeah no, i posted it that many times lol so thats not really an error. Its complicated. You see the theme is actually stored in the database, and I did this transfer so I could hook up the new site from my harddrive to this live database. So I am the only member on the forum using the new site's theme (so the new site works properly), and that caused the status error. I deleted the extra statuses but was unaware you could actually get notifications regarding statuses you have replied to.