<b>Recent Downtime</b>
The site is back up and running again after a rather dramatic problem that knocked out connections to the various databases the site uses. We’ve been calling it “Black Saturday”, and work has being going on constantly to get the site back up. If you’re interested the problem was not with either the web page or database servers but in a data centre in-between. Our web pages couldn't pull data from our databases. There was no way of quickly contacting this data centre (In Dallas, USA) to resolve the block (which can happen for lots of reasons) and so we needed to move quickly to a new platform with all parts of the site in one place.
To do this we’ve had to move all the WebPages (a total file size of 1.2GB, 8780 jpeg image files alone) and all four databases for the FAQ, Cat-eLog, Watermart and Forum sections (totalling 3,117,918 records) onto a brand new server on a new host platform and provider now based here in the UK.
There are several niggling issues with this new environment, but the main site has been up and running since 01:00 GMT 11th and I’ve just enabled the forum in the last hour.
Sorry for the downtime, believe me when I say I’m the last person in the world that wanted to have to put the site down and migrate it to a new home!
If you notice any problems, please post in the bugs & suggestions forum!
Jools
11th July 2007 - "Black Saturday"
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Jools
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- My articles: 198
- My images: 948
- My catfish: 237
- My cats species list: 87 (i:237, k:1)
- My BLogs: 7 (i:10, p:202)
- My Wishlist: 23
- Spotted: 450
- Location 1: Middle Earth,
- Location 2: Scotland
- Interests: All things aquatic, Sci-Fi, photography and travel. Oh, and beer.
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11th July 2007 - "Black Saturday"
Owner, AquaticRepublic.com, PlanetCatfish.com & ZebraPleco.com. Please consider donating towards this site's running costs.
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wrasse
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- Location 1: Pailton, Warwickshire, UK
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- Interests: catfish, photography, gym, cooking
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Jools
- Expert
- Posts: 16141
- Joined: 30 Dec 2002, 15:25
- My articles: 198
- My images: 948
- My catfish: 237
- My cats species list: 87 (i:237, k:1)
- My BLogs: 7 (i:10, p:202)
- My Wishlist: 23
- Spotted: 450
- Location 1: Middle Earth,
- Location 2: Scotland
- Interests: All things aquatic, Sci-Fi, photography and travel. Oh, and beer.
- Contact:
Thanks, however, I'm just trying to keep everyone informed and allay any fears that we're about to disappear off the face of the earth, just do this because I want to and it's (usually) a lot of fun - no need for thanks!wrasse wrote:Jools, you manage this site very well. Enuf said!
Jools
Owner, AquaticRepublic.com, PlanetCatfish.com & ZebraPleco.com. Please consider donating towards this site's running costs.
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Cicolid
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Bright yellow Saturday.
Hi Jools.
There is an old saying " You don't know what you've got until you lose it "
That is certainly true of Planet Catfish, I didn't realise just how much I relied upon it for info'.
It's a great site, in fact the best catfish site.
Please keep up the great work.
Regards
Col
There is an old saying " You don't know what you've got until you lose it "
That is certainly true of Planet Catfish, I didn't realise just how much I relied upon it for info'.
It's a great site, in fact the best catfish site.
Please keep up the great work.
Regards
Col