Scheduled Downtime

[Pauler]

we have been having some hardware issues over the last few weeks and cannot put off the maintenance any longer. for those of you that know hardware, some of our RAID drives failed and need to be replaced.

the sceduled downtime is as follows...

friday, aug 9th from 9:30-10:30pm CST
early saturday morning, aug 10th from 1-4am CST

 

[dogs4thewin]

Which time zone?

 

[Pauler]

CST...thanks for thinking of that.

 

[servant of Merciful Love]

Not being familiar with hardware.....will this fix the problem of not getting email notices of thread subscriptions and PMs?
They suddenly stopped a few days ago after the site was down.

Thanks for the notice

 

[Angeldove97]

Not being familiar with hardware.....will this fix the problem of not getting email notices of thread subscriptions and PMs?
They suddenly stopped a few days ago after the site was down.

Thanks for the notice

I don't know for sure, but usually hardware doesn't solve any software problems/features. Switching for new hardware will make sure the site over-all keeps running- which is the most important thing.

 

[servant of Merciful Love]

Ok, thanks....I was just curious because other members have been asking about this issue too

 

[Pauler]

i will add the email notifications to the list of concerns

 

[Bedford]

we have been having some hardware issues over the last few weeks and cannot put off the maintenance any longer. for those of you that know hardware, some of our RAID drives failed and need to be replaced.

the sceduled downtime is as follows...

friday, aug 9th from 9:30-10:30pm CST
early saturday morning, aug 10th from 1-4am CST

No hot swapping available?

 

[servant of Merciful Love]

i will add the email notifications to the list of concerns

Thanks pauler

 

[Pauler]

No hot swapping available?

we are also doing some table migrations and software updates.

 

[Bedford]

we are also doing some table migrations and software updates.

Thank you for providing a good forum and website

 

[Chaplain David]

we have been having some hardware issues over the last few weeks and cannot put off the maintenance any longer. for those of you that know hardware, some of our RAID drives failed and need to be replaced.

the sceduled downtime is as follows...

friday, aug 9th from 9:30-10:30pm CST
early saturday morning, aug 10th from 1-4am CST

This is bound to have positive affects on the forum. Thanks very much.

 

[servant of Merciful Love]

Thank you for providing a good forum and website

This is bound to have positive affects on the forum. Thanks very much.

Yes, thank you ~ God bless

 

[mjintellichristian]

Yes, confirming that email notifications stopped working

 

[Justatruthseeker]

we have been having some hardware issues over the last few weeks and cannot put off the maintenance any longer. for those of you that know hardware, some of our RAID drives failed and need to be replaced.

the sceduled downtime is as follows...

friday, aug 9th from 9:30-10:30pm CST
early saturday morning, aug 10th from 1-4am CST

Such is technology, gotta love it and hate it, but mostly love it

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

i will add the email notifications to the list of concerns

Hey Paul, good to hear from you. Back when I was on staff, I was having email notification issues, you guys fixed them for one day, where I got months worth all at once; after which, not a single one.

 

[servant of Merciful Love]

Hey Paul, good to hear from you. Back when I was on staff, I was having email notification issues, you guys fixed them for one day, where I got months worth all at once; after which, not a single one.

Wow

Hubby and I got a slew of mail then too, but it did resume after the fix, with no problems until this week... when the site went down for a bit on Sunday evening.

 

[davedajobauk]

No hot swapping available?

Possibly! but swapping a new drive [hot or cold]
for one holding 'shared data' [with other (raided) drives]
does not recover the data that is lost

IT follows, that software, that is unable to find data
also, cannot report, it's presence

[?]

I wonder, if, when a site is synced, with a server
WHY, data is 'lost' ~when programming is available
to have data 'balanced' [back and forth] between site and the server database

iow: when server is [normally] updated from site
WHY, the site is not 'repaired' via Server database
LIKE: restoring a PC to 'last known good configuration' [?]
~ to last 'synching state'

I had a Raid (1) setup, in my Dell when it failed
But I wasn't sufficiently educated, to merge their content
SO, Instead, I chose to employ Serial ATA
and a [to me] huge external drive 1Tb as a database
Today my 3Gbs Dual Processor with 3Gbs memory runs LEAN
[without internal data storage] .... I regularly offload to the external drive

In the event of a future crash ....
it simply means
# a re-instal of my operating system
# updating of OS to current date
# then reinstalling of third party programs I use [stored upon External Drive]
All of my data, would be recoverable
thanks to, the cheap cost of, my external memory storage

Raid, is cool, just so long as you can rewrite the bad drive
from the good drive. Otherwise, it is a royal pain, in the proverbial butt


dave

 

[Pauler]

we werent able to do the updates and hard drive swap due to scott having to mitigate a dos on another site. we will try again this saturday.

 

[MariaRegina]

Wow

Hubby and I got a slew of mail then too, but it did resume after the fix, with no problems until this week... when the site went down for a bit on Sunday evening.

Ah. No wonder the site has been slow as of late.