I've noticed since the chat room deal that the site has been down quite a bit. Did the server crash again? Or is there some testing going on?


It also looks like we're running a backup - probably taken from the 1st of the month. Did SQL take a dump, Coomer?

Definitely some horrible crashing. I've gone through hell the last couple days trying to figure stuff out.

What was happening was that the caching engine on the new server would crash randomly, using up every spare byte of memory and swap, bringing the server down instantly. A couple times when this happened, it corrupted the database, so that even a hard server restart wouldn't fix things.

So after two nights without sleep and tons of troubleshooting, I couldn't figure it out and bit the bullet and moved everything over to a different host (where I wasn't responsible for installing everything...I think something I did installing the server software and whatnot messed things up).

Now the site should be back up reliably. Unfortunately, I had to roll back to the last clean database/website backup, which was August 1. But at least the site is back up, and should be reliable once again. And I'm looking into fixing the chat.

I'm really sorry guys...this isn't acceptable and I apologize. I really try hard to keep this place online, and the last few days have been nothing but problems. But it should be back online...let me know if you see anything weird or broken.

If you want to set it back up I'd be more than happy to come help out.


(I've also got a copy of Server 2003 Enterprise that I would be willing to donate to the site if it would help)

I was going to make a thread concerning this, but I couldn't get on the site.

Thanks for the fix, hopefully you'll be around more. Nothing this drastic, but I do see bugs every once in a while.

It happens I guess. We appreciate your hard work though Coomer. Thanks.

Good to hear you were able to get the site back up.

Thanks for the dedication Chris!

so will i have to re-create a thread i started yesterday?

Im lost T__T dont know what i was looking at before the crash, dont know what i posted, but none the less glad the site is back up

Was starting to have withdrawls

Again thank you Coomer for your hard work. I felt empty not being able to see the site yesterday.

thank you coomer for your hard work! do you have any other 6gc members that helped you? it seems like youre bearing the burden solo!

Apology is completely unnecessary here Chris - we're lucky to have you here keeping this place functional [and working your butt off to do it].
Hopefully we can get chat up again - I'm on that 24/7 and some good friendships have been made over there. Plus it keeps the pointless chatter off the threads.
If there is anything I can help with please LMK.
Thanks again for this place - i know so many of us would be lost without it.

I'm fairly new here, but I appreciate your work. I know how hard it is to be a web master. If you need any help, let me know. I've been doing this kind of stuff for years, and right now I'm going to school for Electrical and Computer Engineering, so I'll be learning a lot more.

You realize your the reason it crashed right,u talked so much you #$@!ing crashed it,now i have nothing to do some im actually working on the celica..

Coomer im glad to see that your back up and active,im sorry that it had to be under these conditions though, i hope everything starts to work well without to many sleepless nights and headaches good luck,and may the force be with you.

usage doesn't cause a program to "leak memory" and cause it to use all avaliable ram/swap space. a bad programing error, or an incompatibility causes it.

How can any of us help?

You know, this could be someone telling you to stop riding your fixed gear so much and get back to the site.

I understand that coomer's busy with things etc, but just wondering if the chatroom will be making a comeback anytime soon??

God only knows. Haven't seen Chris around since it happen.

wouldn't count on it.

i was just about to post this lol

This is why nothing is getting done around here Pedal Room

We should all go over and join the Pedal Room.

X2

Chat should be back online. I rewrote the backend so it stores data differently, and I'm hoping it's stable and doesn't bring down the server. Let me know if you guys see any odd issues or problems with it.

Good stuff. Hoping to see you around more.

i dont know if anyone is having this but the names in chat is over/under the smiley's and the text people writes just keeps running down. it doesnt stay in the chat box and theres no scroll bar. i'll go run some software on my end and see if my laptop is good. pc is down, so is my net, im borrowing net now

Got that a few minutes ago.