What the hell?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Provost Harrison]

This site has been down nearly 30 hours!!! What the hell has been going on! This is serious, you can you guys accept this stuff from Gamestats? There are slowdowns but this is getting bang out of order...

[Dookie]

I don't know about Gamestats' reputation but this is pretty piss-poor for a site of Apolyton's quality. I doubt it is your fault, Markos and Dan, but if this is a sign of Gamestats' reliability I suggest you find yourselves a more friendly server that cares about its family of affiliates.

[Scouse Gits]

This might not be the right thread to say this - but I hesitated to start a new one.

On this occasion (unlike the time the UK was barred) we did have access to GameStats main page - would it have been beyond the bounds of possibility for this page to carry a little note
<font color=blue>"Apolyton down through technical problems - hope to be back tomorrow"</font>
or somesuch??


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"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
"The Great Library must be built!"

[Dookie]

I'm totally with you there Scouse Git 1...even look at the server outage notice

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font>At around 5:20AM EST yesterday, the server that hosts Apolyton CS and numerous other sites on GameStats lost HTTP (World Wide Web) functionality to the "outside world". It was restored earlier this morning and should be operating as normal once again.

We have been informed that it was indeed a server problem and that GS is working on procedures to help eliviate the likelihood of this problem from recurring.

We thank you for your patience and understanding during our recent downtime.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>

Not a word of apology from Gamestats at all. It really seems like they are a bunch of downright arrogant twirps that don't realise that the sites are more important than themselves. Markos and Dan really shouldn't have to put up with this disgraceful attack on their reputation as a quality site. Quality sites and servers don't crash for 28 hours without so much of a word of apology on the internet anywhere.

Shocking.

[Sophanthro]

Wow look at the Apolyton addicts whine

Sorry guys, I had to check out my DDOS software, cause Im L33t /jk



<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Sophanthro (edited September 11, 2000).]</font>

[Gothmog]

I doubt that Dan is going to apologize to himself, since he has been the Director of Operations at Gamestats for some time now.

I have to agree with everyone else here that some sort of notice should have been posted on the gamestats homepage for so long an outage.

[SilverDragon]

THAT PISSED THE HELL OUT OF ME!!

[MarkG]

i would hope that some people would notice that something like that havent happened in the last 26 months in the history of apolyton & gamestats, but i guess i'm being optimistic....
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[Ming]

I hear you MarkG...
With the exception of some "slow downs", the service has been very dependable.

You would think the world came to an end from all the whining

I enjoyed the day by watching some football, and checking out ACOL, and taking a nap. It was a fine day

<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Ming (edited September 11, 2000).]</font>

[Smash]

This is not the only time.Maybe not 30 hours but....

Slowdowns are common.Lost pages.

Its not terribly upsetting to me,but if this was my site it sure would be.I'd have bailed on this server long ago.

[Lancer]

...and the saga continues...

In this weeks installment, nobody can reach Apolyton! What happened? Did Mark and Dan move onto the bowling circuit and leave it all behind? Was it a "technical problem" as Scouse Gits, that dashing young devil may care speculator, speculated? What was it that Sophanthro was talking about? Who is Sophanthro? Is he what AH refered to in last weeks episode as a CTP playing "girl"? ...like yours truly? Is Gothmog's speculation that Dan is not his own apologist correct? Is an Apologist a member of Apolyton? Then there's Smash, he's right, but after that tirade of abuse by the BIG 3 on those who dared speak their minds, who showed they actually have minds...will he be destined to be ignored?

Will Gamestats ever get it right?
Will Dookie ever realize that love means never having to say you're sorry?
Will Mark and Dan ever notice that other sites are like their first girlfriends, they never go down?
Will Provost Harrison ever realize that a bang is never "out of order"?
Will Ming, who scoffs at the frequent slowdowns, not realize that we don't all have T1 connections?
In this latest saga, our usual villian, UGO is not at fault! WTF?

...tune in next week when 'As the Apolyton World Turns' continues...

[Hydey]

The real reason for the breakdown was hacking by Alexander's Horse, He is so stupid that he did is as his vacation ended, so he missed out as well.

[Alexander's Horse]

Keep claiming that son, and your going to bring suspicion on yourself

I think the downtime was worthwhile just for the thought of addicts like Mao pressing the refresh button over and over again *snicker*


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[Shadowstrike]

What happened? Apolyton was just down again for 1 hour. Are we going to have small outage problems for a while?

[Sten Sture]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Prancer on 09-11-2000 03:42 PM</font>
...our usual villian, UGO is not at fault! WTF?

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LMAO!

Welcome back! Shtuff happens. Don't spend too much money on multiple redundancy plans, we can live for 30 hours. Now forty would be tough...