Forums downtime

[John Beaulieu]

Howdy All

Sorry for any inconvenience that today's downtime may have caused - we are still figuring out what the problem was (the db server disappeared for a while)

Big thanks to Neil for sorting everything out on his day off - kudos sir

There will be some scheduled downtime in the next week or so whilst we prune some of the forums, and upgrade the forum code to the latest version - we will let you know in advance when this will be taking place

Thanks once again for your patience, and another big thanks to Neil for getting the forums back up

[Roddie]

My sanity is restored, cheers Neil!

[marcus]

Where is Neil these days, never see him posting anymore.

/waves at Neil

Still doing a top job on the forum hosting

[NeilMcRae]

yah busy at work and with my racing at weekends, plus few decent games out at the mo, but I'll be back when PS-3 and WIi fever hits

[importaku]

oh god it was awful when the site was not online. It just shows how much i enjoy popping in on here.

I was getting the ntsc uk shakes.

[Kongster]

Ditto, man, ditto.

[charlesr]

Not sure myself what happened yet. Think the whole server got turned off, because I couldn't get to my email or the website either (i.e. not just the forums). I'll update when I know. I think Neil's in the US for the PS3 launch, so he's probably worked remote miracles to get it back up again.

[charlesr]

Server was fine, but there was a network outage. And Neil's not in the US. Heheh. However, he worked through the night to sort out the network problems. Yay.

[Mayhem]

Hooray for Neil

[NecronomiconUK]

I'm fairly new to the forums but this place has become my new addiction, always keeping the place on a tab in my browser and hitting the 'New Posts' search when i have spare mins.

The downtime left me at a bit of a loss, I was afraid some big news might drop and I'd miss it!

Thanks very much to the mods/admins for working hard to provide us with this forum and some notice on downtime would be nice so that I may plan an excusion to keep me busy or something

[capcom_suicide]

Thanks as always to Neil! I was on business (France) and missed my evening fix of NTSC-uk!

[Paulos G]

Thanks very much to the mods/admins for working hard to provide us with this forum and some notice on downtime would be nice so that I may plan an excusion to keep me busy or something

Seconded (except for the bit about the excusion coz I don't know what it is but it sounds painful)!

[ProgScan]

I'm sure you're onto this, but you really should upgrade vb stat.

As an former vb licence holder, I'd recommend 3.5 as an absolute minimum.

[NeilMcRae]

we run 3.0.13 it just doesn't say so keeps those turkish hackers guessing.

Neil.

[NeilMcRae]

when my crystal ball starts working again about hardware falures I'll be sure to give you notice