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Site Database Problems (problem fixed)

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:06 am
by helicine
All of yesterday's traffic overloaded the database that runs most of the site, and as of right now (7:04am EDT), the bulk of the site is still down. That should be resolved within a couple of hours. I have to call my provider and tinker w/ a few things and then hopefully we can bring it back online and/or set it up on a more powerful server.

These problems do not impact the forums, they are working just fine :thumb:

Re: Site Database Problems

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:11 am
by helicine
Okay, we're back! :rockon:

Re: Site Database Problems

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:04 pm
by Mike
What a crazy day yesterday was.
The hits on the site were staggering. :shock:

Thanks for rolling up your sleeves and fixing the issues Erik.

I think we learned some valuable lessons and we'll be better prepared in the future. :thumb:

Re: Site Database Problems

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:44 pm
by helicine
The DB and server load problems have been corrected. We handled over 2x the traffic yesterday than we did on Tuesday and the server didn't break a sweat.

:wiggle: