Server / Network Updates

[Friday]

Yeah, Tweak, thank you so much man. Take care of yourself though, your health is more important to us than the forums.

[Bayzan]

Jeez man... You deserve a good long rest after all that. I'm sure everyone on this forums is thankful for your work, so owe it to yourself and rest.

[Tweak]

Sorry for the blip there, managed to disable the NIC!

IRC is currently not working through the inbuilt client however can be accessing using the PJIRC client over at http://razi.alfreelancing.com/pjirc/

Once our Mibbit client is working I'll post here.

[Pea]

I'm not able to access IRC through my own client.

[Tweak]

Any errors?

[Pea]

[12:25] * Looking up irc.furry-forum.com
[12:25] * Connecting to irc.furry-forum.com (78.40.39.252) port 6667...
[12:25] * Connection failed. Error: Connection timed out

[Fox_720B]

Wow...guys...I am so glad to see this forum back online.

I was absent for a while and when I came back this place was gone. I wondered if it was some sort of attack. This forum is one of only two real alternatives to the Fur Affinity Forums...and since I just left that awful place...I really hated to see you guys down.

I've been noticing FDF refugees joining up at Furtopia and FAF before I left. I'll spread the word that they can come back home.

Thanks so much for your efforts. I'm sure those who left might make their way back.

Also....for what's its worth...have you considered perhaps changing to a different type of board? Perhaps an Invision or vBulletin board?

[Tweak]

IRC is now connecting correctly.

[Pea]

Thanks man. I owe you.

[Tweak]

All emails should now be going through correctly - GMail blocked our IP address due to some server issues. This has now been resolved.

[Tweak]

Server is now back online. Took a little longer as a FSCK was required.

[Tweak]

ANNOUNCEMENT :: NETWORK MAINTENANCE
24th February 2014 :: 2am - 7am GMT

The datacentre we're located in will be carrying out a major upgrade of the power systems.

The switch-over to the new systems will take place between 2 and 7am GMT on 24th February 2014. For this to happen, power will be cut. During this time the services will be unavailable for 30-60 minutes starting at 2am, no other problems should occur.

All services should be back online by 4am but the entire period is to be considered at risk.


Additionally, we are currently investigating the issues causing the downtime of late, we've diagnosed the problem but are still seeking out the cause. The services are being monitored thoroughly.

Also the previous file system corruption which led to rebuilds have been investigated and the cause solved, this cause will no longer result in such problems.


We're also in the process of making some changes both technically and within the forums. More information will be posted on this at a later time.

[Tweak]

Does this look good to you guys?

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[anoni]

Hard to say after such a short time frame xD

[Timmy Fox]

It is fairly high I'd say. My rule of thumb is usually 80% for upper limit, and if I go over that frequently I'd look into what's causing such high spikes and either see if I can fix it or if I'll need more memory.