Christine Animal Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 What's going on ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 Ha! I nearly went and registered on TF to post the same question, as it took ages to get in here this am.This site has been damaged due to too many people bringing animals into it. All the hair, fur, feathers, and pink fluff in general is getting into the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 I suspect the publishers' IS people may have been doing something to the servers again, because there was a period when the admin functions went a bit strange (which stopped us removing an illegal post properly). But the forum itself has worked OK for me when I've been looking at it.On the other hand, we may have inherited a bit too much of another site's pink fluff (nice idea), or even yet another place's policy of allowing wall-to-wall free ads but immediately removing any questions, let alone criticism, of forum policy might have caused another overload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted August 9, 2005 Author Share Posted August 9, 2005 Perhaps all the hair, fur, feathers and fluff plus all the change round of identities, names and pseudos made everything go haywire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 [quote]Perhaps all the hair, fur, feathers and fluff plus all the change round of identities, names and pseudos made everything go haywire![/quote]I was thinking the same CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 And who was it who started all the merriment in that respect?This name change business has been great fun, but it makes some older threads read very oddly. When I revert back to my other name of course, certain more recent posts will read as pure nonsense. Very confusing for newcomers to the forum, who will think some of us are bonkers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Forum Admin Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 AllAs you may already know, we suffered an 80 minute web site outage this morning between 07:50 and 09:10.This was due to a failure of two SQL Server databases. As these failures were un-repairable we were forced to restore two key databases (membership and forums) from yesterday’s final set of backups, meaning that we’ve effectively lost any new posts or member signups that occurred between approximately 11pm last night and 6am this morning.This is because although the databases were backed up between 11pm and 6am we were unable to restore from those backups as the problems with the disk array occurred at an unknown point after 11pm. Consequently the 11pm backup represented the last consistent & known good backup of the data.I will need to take the database server offline again later tonight to run further disk checks and array diagnostics to try and establish exactly what caused this failure to occur.Any problems / queries please let me know.RegardsTim StephensonProject Manager (Digital Media)Archant } IS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted August 9, 2005 Author Share Posted August 9, 2005 "The admin functions went a bit strange..."I haven't had such a laugh for a long time, not since our American friend came to stay and asked us what we thought of her new dress.My always tactful French husband answered "I've seen worse". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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