What A Couple Of Weeks...
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The forums are back online.
Here's the scoop. Apparently, the server we were on was having hardware issues. It kept eating database entries, so randomly topics or messages or members or posts were disappearing. Then, the blogs started to not show up, and longer posts. And then everything went kablooey.
Well, it took some time to get through to our hosting company, and then it took some more time for them to narrow things down, and then it took time to get back to us, and then it took time for us to figure out our options - which weren't pretty - and then it took more time...
So, in the long run, we ended up migrating to a bigger, better server. This is important for several reasons.
- First, it (hopefully) fixed the immediate problems of things not showing up
- It cleaned up our file structure a bit and got us spic-n-span on the server level
- We now have a bigger hard drive (250GB instead of dual 80GB drives)
- We have a faster server (dual 3.0GHz Xeon rather than dual 2.4GHz Xeon)
- Most importantly (to me), we have twice as much RAM: 4GB now rather than 2GB
I know it's been rough for everyone, not having BZP available. It took a toll on me, certainly. And during the downtime, there have been some changes (which will become more obvious in the next few days). From my perspective, though, it's all good.
But there's still a lot of surprises in store for this week. I don't think anyone will see them coming. I just wish I could see your faces when it all bubbles up to the light of day.
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