Connection Problems

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks Gramphos

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Gramphos
Hopefully any complications should be gone now.

:desire:

[snoopy369]

While the issue could have been communicated in a more polite manner, the lack of a method of notifying people of planned outages is certainly an issue, and one we have rectified.

Please subscribe to this thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177882

and we will attempt to keep this updated as much as possible with any planned outages (and after the fact explanations of unplanned ones). We won't post every single maintenance operation in there as that would be boring and not useful, but we will try to update it with anything that will cause a significant amount of disruption.

[Asher]

Why don't you replace the useless PolyCast announcements at the top of every forum for planned outage announcements?

[Dale]

Originally posted by Asher
Why don't you replace the useless PolyCast announcements at the top of every forum for UN-planned outage announcements?

Reason I say UN-planned is that you can't claim an outage as planned if you suddenly go "Holy ****, we need a new blah blah blah, gotta do it now!"

PLANNED outages should have lead-times of weeks.

EDIT: Just read the topped maint thread, and I ask, how the hell can you claim a planned/scheduled outage if communication proves not possible? Those types of outages have long lead times (or should in any half-baked company) where communication and impact analysis has weeks to occur. Saying that communication is not possible brings me to one conclusion, that the inner sanctum does not want to communicate with us what is going on.

Quote in topped thread:
"We will attempt to give as much notice in advance as possible of planned outages, but as with any circumstance this may prove to not always be possible."

[Gramphos]

Well, we do this in our spare time. We might plan to do something at the next window of opportunity, but we don't know when that is until less than a day before sometimes, and if we don't do it then, it won't be done at all.

Regarding yesterdays outtake. It was planned, but not announced about 6 hours before, and should only have lasted for 15 minutes plus the extra load after.

[ZEE]

NEW SITE LOGO!

[EPW]

ITS BACK UP!!!!!

[Nikolai]

My threads still isn't.

[Krill]

This place isn;t up if I have to login to view it...

[Locutus]

From the maintenance log (bolding mine):

We are currently experiencing some trouble related to the work done yesterday, and are preparing to revert parts of the work for now. We will schedule additional downtime to redo parts of the changes once we have isolated the error.

That's still ongoing and will slow down the server for a bit longer -- basically until Gramphos calls it a night, which knowing him normally shouldn't be too much longer.

We've set the maintenance processes to not overly tax the server, but it's unavoidable the effect will be noticeable to some, especially guests. I've been browsing around as a guest to test though, I get the odd time-out but it mostly seems fine to me.

[Locutus]

Update: we just found a bug that was causing unnecessary slowdowns, thing should be much smoother now.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Locutus
Update: we just found a bug that was causing unnecessary slowdowns, thing should be much smoother now.

Thanks Locutus

[SpencerH]

I'm glad the site is back up.

Asher, yet more proof that you dont deserve to be here.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SpencerH
I'm glad the site is back up.

Asher, yet more proof that you dont deserve to be here.

Yesterday's gongshow of an outage during primetime to put in changes that resulted in a gongshow of an outage today to remove the changes introduced yesterday proves I don't deserve to be here?