CivFanatics' Forums not viewable

[CivGeneral]

I tried to veiw a Forum in CivFanatics.Com at 2:30pm EDT , only to realize that a message that does not normaly happens comes up. Here is the Message it said.

There seems to have been a slight problem with the Civilization Fanatics' Forums database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience. -CivFanatic's Forum

Anyone Who visits Civfanatc's Forums or Members of that forum. Do you see this message when you try to access a Forum ? I have already E-mailed there Tech Staff about it.

P.S. I dont know what subject to post this thread belongs in. I just felt that the Civ3-General is the more approprieate place to post.

[CivGeneral]

Testing CivFanatics' Forum

I just viseted ther forums just a few seconds ago. I can Post new forums but cannot view the actual forums . I have not submitted any. I just hope the Moderators have notice a proplem too .

[miccofl]

Uh - Houston, they have a problem there! Glad I'm here and not there!

[Marquis de Sodaq]

I can view the forums, but not any threads. A problem with the database, indeed...

Several people have posted in the last hour, tho, judging from the times listed in the forum page. There was at least a 6 hour gap between those and the previous posts.

[CivGeneral]

Uh - Houston, they have a problem there! Glad I'm here and not there! - miccofl

Thank Goodness that Apolyton's Forums are in top condition. I guess (Some Where in the Forums) it mentoned that the same thing happened in the past.

[dunk]

They'll fix it soon enough. I got that error earlier as well.

[Matt_G]

This has happened every single day this week at CivFanatics. I usually try to get on in the mornings. (I have the time then). Every day this week I've gotten that SQL error message. Looks like this will be my new home.
I like the forum there, but if it's down all the time, whats the point.

[CivGeneral]

This has happened every single day this week at CivFanatics. I usually try to get on in the mornings. (I have the time then). Every day this week I've gotten that SQL error message. Looks like this will be my new home.
I like the forum there, but if it's down all the time, whats the point. -Matt_G

Strangly it does not happen to me. Although there was a couple of SQL errors from time to time and then returned to normal (Possibly Bandwith problems)Mostly the error has more information than the one I posted above such as connections, etc. But this error mesage just had the message posted above. No more, no less. Just strange .

[Willem]

Originally posted by Matt_G
This has happened every single day this week at CivFanatics. I usually try to get on in the mornings. (I have the time then). Every day this week I've gotten that SQL error message. Looks like this will be my new home.
I like the forum there, but if it's down all the time, whats the point.

Hey, you're talking about computers here, and the Internet. Things tend to go wrong from time to time, so there's no point in getting frustrated about it. Apolyton had it's share of problems awhile back as well. They'll get it fixed eventually.

[CivGeneral]

News Flash. CivFanatics Update

Forum Downtime posted by thunderfall at 5:25pm (CDT i am assuming -civfan01)

Our forum server is having some problems and is not accessible (probably since 12 PM EST). We'll try to get it fixed asap. Please be patient.

Hey, you're talking about computers here, and the Internet. Things tend to go wrong from time to time, so there's no point in getting frustrated about it. Apolyton had it's share of problems awhile back as well. They'll get it fixed eventually. - Willem

And possibly others have been lucky and advoided the problem(Since they have eather a job, life, school, etc.)

[Case]

CivFanatics has been slow and cranky for the last few weeks now

[Solver]

I've been there yesterday, it was pretty slow, and then kept getting this error all the time... nah, a shame.

[RGBVideo]

Those poo-brains. If I've understood correctly, the problem is not with TF
(Thunderfall), it's with Tf (Telefragged), the server host.

[Solver]

And at the moment, I just can't connect to the site. Our uptime is better than theirs .

[Skanky Burns]

Apolyton was going through the same sorts of problems before we moved to our new (dedicated) server. Definately sucks when you can't get access to the server, but at least Apolyton has got these issues sorted.

It explains why we are being invaded by Civ Fanatics though.