Site Downtime 10/11/2018

[J]

Hi everyone!

As you all may or may not know, I run the hosting and infrastructure for this site. I’m moving all of my hosting to a new location, and expect some downtime tomorrow afternoon. If all goes well this should only take about an hour. Appreciate your patience and hope the withdrawals aren’t too bad for anyone with access to the site revoked for about an hour.

[00tec]

WTF... what am I supposed to do at work?

[hurley842002]

Thanks for the heads up, save me from rushing to the COAR facebook page to see what's going on.

[ChickNorris]

Oh? lol, folks are gonna cry...

[Skip]

You need to put the tip jar out while you're at it.

[fly boy]

Thanks for the heads up, save me from rushing to the COAR facebook page to see what's going on.

^^^^ Truth.

[mattiooo]

I didn't know there was a COAR facebook page.

[SouthPaw]

I didn't know there was a COAR facebook page.

Last updated 11/17. I wasn't aware till I checked now [Coffee]

[J]

Last updated 11/17. I wasn't aware till I checked now [Coffee]

Yeah, the only time anyone posts there is when we have downtime. So I'm sure we will get some posts there tomorrow.

[ChickNorris]

Just occured to me, I should say thank you for managing the clubhouse.[Flower]


(Couldnt think of a better way to phrase it)

[TFOGGER]

Yeah, put out the tip jar again. It's time for me to repay some!

[SideShow Bob]

As long as the down time is between 1300 & 1400 it is acceptable......

There should be a sticky for site donations.
Where to send it that is. And I don’t men Mazin’s address......

[Mazin]

As long as the down time is between 1300 & 1400 it is acceptable......

There should be a sticky for site donations.
Where to send it that is. And I don’t men Mazin’s address......

I take CC and PayPal too [Coffee]

@Chicknorris
Whenever this site has had an issue within 30min everyone one of the staff has no less than than about a dozen calls from members. Then the staff starts pinging each other. We havent had a serous issue since 2012 and I believe we were down for a few days, that wasnt fun.

J, You da man!
[Beer]

[ChickNorris]

Yeah! Because I needed to be told?!

[ChickNorris]

Narrrff

[Mazin]

Yeah! Because I needed to be told?!

Just giving an example of how quick the communtiy reacts, I've seen 911 dispatch work slower.

[SideShow Bob]

Just giving an example of how quick the communtiy reacts, I've seen 911 dispatch work slower.

I think I misquoted this as the Great site crash of 2013 in a post or two, it was in 2012 as you stated.

I think half the membership was in detox or seriously Jonesing by the time this site was back up. There were even members going to barfcom ( how low can you go for your interwebz fix ) to ask what happened to this site.
And how many members lost hundreds, if not thousands of post counts due to the outage ? No one will ever know the true number.

[J]

And when do you think I took over the hosting and infrastructure? 2012? Coincidence that it has been good since? I dunno. [shithitsfan]

[Mazin]

I think I misquoted this as the Great site crash of 2013 in a post or two, it was in 2012 as you stated.

I think half the membership was in detox or seriously Jonesing by the time this site was back up. There were even members going to barfcom ( how low can you go for your interwebz fix ) to ask what happened to this site.
And how many members lost hundreds, if not thousands of post counts due to the outage ? No one will ever know the true number.

Lmao Barf, the only time I log in there is when we are down here, yep Mazin there too.


And when do you think I took over the hosting and infrastructure? 2012? Coincidence that it has been good since? I dunno. [shithitsfan]

Now dont forget about adding the additional cool emojis, reliability and cool emojis what more could anyone want?


(Besides a like button for Ray)

[brutal]

Yeah, the only time anyone posts there is when we have downtime. So I'm sure we will get some posts there tomorrow.

I think I will just to F with you.

lol, thanks for all you guys do.

[brutal]

I think I misquoted this as the Great site crash of 2013 in a post or two, it was in 2012 as you stated.

I think half the membership was in detox or seriously Jonesing by the time this site was back up. There were even members going to barfcom ( how low can you go for your interwebz fix ) to ask what happened to this site.
And how many members lost hundreds, if not thousands of post counts due to the outage ? No one will ever know the true number.

Yea, half the half was just worried about losing their post count.

(you know who you are)

[thedave1164]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[GilpinGuy]

There should be a sticky for site donations.
Where to send it that is. And I don’t men Mazin’s address......

I proposed to a MOD a while ago that the site should set up an Amazon affiliate program so we could all order our shit like we do anyway and have this place get the benefit to run the servers, ban hammer brigade, or whatever you guys do (and do awesomely, btw). Plus we could could skim a little of that lefty money to our side. Hehehe.

Maybe there's a tax complication there, but maybe it can be set up as a nonprofit or something? I have no idea what I'm talking about, obviously, but I make between $10 and $100 off of my silly quail blog a month, so why not?

Its raisingquail.net (http://www.raisingquail.net) btw. :)

[Delfuego]

What kinda network guy schedules an upgrade for a Thursday afternoon?

[ray1970]

What kinda network guy schedules an upgrade for a Thursday afternoon?

Right?

Aren’t these types of things usually scheduled to take place during prime usage days/times?

[ChickNorris]

Yeah, that occured to me too.

[Grant H.]

Might be the only time that fits in his schedule...

I tend to try and leave Thursday and Friday out of the schedule for network work. It gives me time to fix any possible SNAFU's before the weekend...



Thanks for keeping the site running!

[Delfuego]

Aren’t these types of things usually scheduled to take place during prime usage days/times?I was just being a jerk :)

Senior J is underpaid for the work he does for us, he has a family too. I saw his thread selling motorcycles, and pictured a bassinet living in his garage where his race bikes used to be.

Thanks for all your hard work J.

Pedro

PS: Be careful with the Mods' here, they will lower your post and give you a funny name if you piss em' off...

[Skip]

What kinda network guy schedules an upgrade for a Thursday afternoon?

Fridays are reserved for the rollbacks. That way the whole team can work all weekend because the DBA "fixed all ur scripts" and be ready to try again Monday.

[J]

Mostly picked Thursday because it was the only time that really fit. Have a busy schedule and have to be out of the data center the 15th. So this weekend I be tearing down the old rack.

Unfortunately all of my paying clients came first, and this being a personal project it gets fit in at the end.

That said, it took foxtrot and I a bit to sync up on the DNS stuff, so it might get bumped to tomorrow. I'm waiting for our domain to pass validation for email whitelisting at the new host. That way you all get your pm notifications and all.

[ray1970]

Just take the thing down for the weekend. I’m sure people here could use the time to get out and enjoy their real life.

[J]

Lol. That might be fun.

[ChickNorris]

Yes. I might just have to work on my truck if Im not distracted here.

[ChickNorris]

Or roof the house, maybe learn to fly a helicopter...

[ChickNorris]

Master telepathy.

[brutal]

You can take it down through 10-17, last day of 1st rifle Elk.

[SideShow Bob]

So,
Did I miss all the drama & butt hurts ?
Or was it a non event ?

[hurley842002]

So,
Did I miss all the drama & butt hurts ?
Or was it a non event ?I've been online pretty much all day, didn't notice anything.

[J]

No. Postponing until tomorrow. Got a lot done today but not enough to cut everything over.

[theGinsue]

PS: Be careful with the Mods' here, they will lower your post and give you a funny name if you piss em' off...


What? I can't believe you'd say that! You screw with peoples accounts 1 or maybe 2 hundred times and you start to get a bad reputation. That's unfair.

Master telepathy.

I knew you were going to say that. (See what I did there?)


[ETA: In case it didn't translate...I was being sarcastic and making attempts at humor]

[theGinsue]

No. Postponing until tomorrow. Got a lot done today but not enough to cut everything over.

Eeck! Major IT work on a Friday? Do you like losing your weekends?

I've had a policy @ work for years that we never do any big IT/computer/network changes on a Friday (Mondays are discouraged as well).

[J]

Not my first choice. But if I'm not completely out by the 15th I'm locked into another year at a bit over $500 a month loss these days. So gotta make it happen.

[ChickNorris]

Eeesh

[buffalobo]

I was just being a jerk :)

Senior J is underpaid for the work he does for us, he has a family too. I saw his thread selling motorcycles, and pictured a bassinet living in his garage where his race bikes used to be.

Thanks for all your hard work J.

Pedro

PS: Be careful with the Mods' here, they will lower your post and give you a funny name if you piss em' off...We do it to our friends too.

[J]

And we're back, on the new server. Hopefully, it'll be a bit faster too!

[ChickNorris]

Viola[Wave]

[J]

Let me know if you notice anything odd, besides the typical odd-ball personalities and shenanigans that go on around here.

[ChickNorris]

So far i cant get to go advanced & i have to exit th thread & reload it to see my post & so i got there via edit.

Yep. Same issue again

[ChickNorris]

Probably just me being a luddite

[ChickNorris]

unction name must be a string on line 1566 in /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php
#0 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(1021): vB_BbCodeParser->parse_array(Array, 1, 1, 0)
#1 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(542): vB_BbCodeParser->parse_bbcode('[QUOTE=Delfuego...', 1, 1, 0)
#2 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(456): vB_BbCodeParser->do_parse('[QUOTE=Delfuego...', 0, 1, 1, 1, true, false, NULL, false, 1)
#3 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/newreply.php(1228): vB_BbCodeParser->parse('[QUOTE=Delfuego...', 89, '1')
#4 {main}

[ChickNorris]

Is that just me?

[mattiooo]

Thanks for all the hard work, J!

[ChickNorris]

ECHO.....echo.....echo.....

[Irving]

unction name must be a string on line 1566 in /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php
#0 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(1021): vB_BbCodeParser->parse_array(Array, 1, 1, 0)
#1 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(542): vB_BbCodeParser->parse_bbcode('[QUOTE=Delfuego...', 1, 1, 0)
#2 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(456): vB_BbCodeParser->do_parse('[QUOTE=Delfuego...', 0, 1, 1, 1, true, false, NULL, false, 1)
#3 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/newreply.php(1228): vB_BbCodeParser->parse('[QUOTE=Delfuego...', 89, '1')
#4 {main}

I get the same thing trying to post a picture and some italic text.

[ChickNorris]

Function name must be a string on line 1566 in /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php
#0 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode_blog.php(169): vB_BbCodeParser->parse_array(Array, true, 32768, 0)
#1 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(542): vB_BbCodeParser_Blog_Snippet->parse_bbcode('[QUOTE=Irving;1...', true, 32768, 0)
#2 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_bbcode.php(456): vB_BbCodeParser->do_parse('[QUOTE=Irving;1...', 0, true, 2048, 4096, true, false, NULL, false, 32768)
#3 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_blog_entry.php(491): vB_BbCodeParser->parse('[QUOTE=Irving;1...', 'blog_entry', '1', false, NULL, NULL, false, NULL)
#4 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_blog_entry.php(290): vB_Blog_Entry->process_text()
#5 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_profileblock_blog.php(348): vB_Blog_Entry->construct()
#6 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_profileblock.php(279): vB_ProfileBlock_Blog->prepare_output('blog', NULL)
#7 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/includes/class_profileblock.php(214): vB_ProfileBlock->fetch_unwrapped('Blog', 'blog', NULL)
#8 /var/www/ar-15.co/httpdocs/member.php(628): vB_ProfileBlock->fetch('Blog', 'blog', NULL, Array)
#9 {main}

& this is my attempt to access a profile (was going to try a pm to Irving. Also tried & same result for J)

[J]

Ok, I think its running better now.

[Irving]

Agreed

[ChickNorris]

[mlp]

Tap tap tap...

[ChickNorris]

Yep.
All seems to function now.
Can't find another hiccup anywhere.
[Cheer][Cheer][Cheer]

[Gman]

You did such a great job (and I was too busy), that I didn't notice anything had changed.

Great job and thanks for all you folks do to keep this place running!

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[OtterbatHellcat]

Thanks J and staff.... I appreciate all of your hard work helping this place function for sure.