OT: Forum Question

Atrocities · #1 February 17th, 2005, 06:44 AM

I just wanted to know if any one else is having a problem logging onto or posting on the forum each night between 11pm PST and 2am PST?

For the last several days I have noticed that I cannot load the forum during those hours, or that if I can, it runs so slow that I can not do anything.

Perhaps it is performing a nightly back up or something?

Alneyan · #2 February 17th, 2005, 06:49 AM

Same here, although it is in the morning, local time. The forum can still be browsed however: it takes about five minutes to load any page, so long as the page does not time out.

Jack Simth · #3 February 17th, 2005, 07:16 AM

Same here.

DeadZone · #4 February 17th, 2005, 07:23 AM

So its not just me thenm I was wondering

Atrocities · #5 February 17th, 2005, 08:28 AM

Looks like its a forum thing. Like I said, most likely a back up process or something.

Mindi · #6 February 17th, 2005, 02:00 PM

I'll see if Richard can look into this sometime this weekend. Our backups are on Sunday evening and should not be causing a problem the rest of the time. Sunday evening til Monday morning though I would always expect for it to be slow. We did recently switch servers, so I am assuming this is a recent thing?

RudyHuxtable · #7 February 17th, 2005, 02:46 PM

Sorry guys, it's me. I've been hacking into the system and trying to find a way to steal all of the avatars on the boards so I can make a huge mosaic of Atrocities' head.

Mindi · #8 February 17th, 2005, 09:55 PM

Well I was mistaken, the Sunday back ups were with the old server. The new server does indeed do automatic daily backups. They were set to kick off at 1am EST, we have changed that to 4am EST. The back-ups are taking longer than what we would like and we are looking into possible solutions to speed them up so that they don't take 2 hours at a time. But for now we have moved them to a more desirable time frame when less people will be on the board. So from 4am-6am EST will be the backups until we can move a few things around on the servers and speed things up. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause any of our users.

Atrocities · #9 February 17th, 2005, 10:12 PM

Back ups are good. They make things safer.

Really its not a problem for me. I don't know about the others though, but I would rather have the site backed up than not.

Mindi · #10 February 17th, 2005, 10:20 PM

Yes we agree! Backups are good! But we want it to be at a time where it impacts the least amount of people and we would like it to happen in a timely fashion.