Forums down 2 1/2 hours tonight.

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Forums went down tonight. We have redundant systems that prevent most problems from occurring...except for when a power supply starts malfunctioning causing a switch to malfunction. So someone had to physically go to the rack, install a backup switch which was also faulty, and then move to a third. Two and a half hours later we are up and I'm a little happier.
 
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That's pretty quick!

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Thanks for being on top of it. I was going crazy. (er) I already had a noose and chair ready in my room.

Is there an email or texting number that could be given to a few folks to pass along, in case you or the mods didn't see it happening?
 
Mclemore,

Thank you for everything that you do!
 
Dude, I think I was going through withdraws for those 2 1/2 hours. :D

Thanks for getting the game going again. :)

Please don't let it happen again. ;)
 
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Impressive to get everything back up as quick as you did considering the problems. Most other vbull forums I'm on go down a lot more frequently than this one, job well done.
 
Glad we keep extra hardware around.

Some people might have noticed another 2 minutes of error msgs about 4 minutes ago.

The switch we put into service after the online and the backup failed was a 15 year old 10MB one from my Toys.com days my collecting instinct wouldn't throw out. Right as I was going out the door I noticed a brand new one in the box, so I swapped out the antique working one for switch #4, but since we aren't running any credit card transactions on this web server I just let it whine instead of taking it down first.

All should be happy now. Time to order another backup switch...maybe one with a redundant power supply this time.

Greg
 
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