Forum Outage - 17/09/2010

Whitey · September 16, 2010, 10:26:59 AM

The forum will be unavailable tomorrow (Friday 17th) from 12-1PM. During the outage the forum will be moved to BA4 and the DNS for //www.deadmen.co.uk changed to point to the new server.

TeaLeaf · September 16, 2010, 01:09:34 PM

Just so people know, the reason for the move is to try to improve the responsiveness of the forum software as it seems it requires a little more grunt than Gandalf's old web server can deliver. So fingers crossed the forums will be a little more zippy when they return!

Blunt · September 16, 2010, 02:02:28 PM

Quote from: TeaLeaf;316543Just so people know, the reason for the move is to try to improve the responsiveness of the forum software as it seems it requires a little more grunt than Gandalf's old web server can deliver. So fingers crossed the forums will be a little more zippy when they return!

That'll be great:D
Home page takes aaaages to load:sad:

Whitey · September 16, 2010, 04:19:36 PM

Quote from: Blunt;316544That'll be great:D
Home page takes aaaages to load:sad:

I've been doing some testing and the home page will still take longer to show that the forum pages. As far as I can see the delay is caused by the TS Server widget and we have no control over the remote server used to build the app. The main improvement you should see is on the forum pages.

TeaLeaf · September 16, 2010, 06:29:10 PM

We'll have to consider dropping it then I guess, trouble is it is a lovely tool to see who is about and online.

Blunt · September 16, 2010, 07:38:45 PM

Quote from: Whitey;316552I've been doing some testing and the home page will still take longer to show that the forum pages. As far as I can see the delay is caused by the TS Server widget and we have no control over the remote server used to build the app. The main improvement you should see is on the forum pages.

IIRC the home-page loaded slowly even before the widget, I remember asking snokio to compare load times and he agreed with me.

TeaLeaf · September 17, 2010, 02:42:33 PM

Back in business - good job on the move!

Gandalf · September 17, 2010, 03:05:32 PM

Minor issue with email notifications. We need to re-train the carrier pigeons to fly to their new home so we hope to have this working soon.

Snokio · September 17, 2010, 07:26:31 PM

KKND still can't get on the site, the error he gets is:

Site relocation in progress! Please update your DNS or wait for a few hours! (The time is now 12:25 GMT 2010-09-17)

(ignore the time, he tried after I successfully logged on)

DannagE · September 17, 2010, 07:43:59 PM

Quote from: Snokio;316645KKND still can't get on the site, the error he gets is:

Site relocation in progress! Please update your DNS or wait for a few hours! (The time is now 12:25 GMT 2010-09-17)

(ignore the time, he tried after I successfully logged on)

Same thing for Lexander.

[18:43:51] [@Lexander]: Nope it has not: Site relocation in progress! Please update your DNS or wait for a few hours! (The time is now 12:25 GMT 2010-09-17

Might just be our oversea's brothers..

OldBloke · September 17, 2010, 08:02:34 PM

get them to open a command window and run "ipconfig /flushdns" (no quotes)

Naldo · September 17, 2010, 10:58:08 PM

Well done and thanks, for the work to move the site.

BrotherTobious · September 18, 2010, 12:46:00 AM

Here here thanks to all your background tweaking

KKND · September 18, 2010, 10:26:08 AM

Well done nice job.:thumbup:

Gandalf · September 21, 2010, 08:30:47 AM

ok, the email problem has been resolved. You'll all start getting post and PM notifications again. Also, if you know of anyone who has tried to register in the last week, get them to check their emails as hopefully they'll have their confirmation emails now. If not, then they can use the Contact Us link at the bottom and we can process their registrations manually. Apologies for any inconvenience, it was the kittens fault....