Site Server Issues - 22nd Jan

[AngelofOctober]

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Happens every so often when the guild runs without a reboot. There's only guesses short of Mahz himself, the one with access to the actual backend - mine is that something caught in the server's memory that the guild files handled poorly, and chunked its displeasure back as a few day's worth of issues.

@ArenaSnow

Ah gotcha.

[NuttsnBolts]

So logging on today and it seems like the Guild is running smoother than the snail pace of a day or so ago. Still awaiting a response, and if the Guild does return to normal speed we at least have a day logged where we can ask Mahz to go back and find out what caused the hamsters to run out of energy.

For a request to anyone that had any issues, would everyone be able to link any duplicate posts/threads in here that need to be attended to. We had one person who sadly posted her roleplay 4 times and even myself posting this thread accidentally posted it _five times.

Hopefully the last of the storm is behind us and we can get things back on track as soon as possible.

[PrinceAlexus]

roleplayerguild.com/topics/167904-sol…

got a pair or so of dupe posts on this page.
Digital cookies if you could tidy them up.

[rebornfan320]

seems to be going along smoothly because what had transpired yesterday i can describe as pretty much unexpected and it was a good idea to back up postings until it is resolved.

[The Elvenqueen]

Still having odd intervals where it suddenly gets really jittery for me. But for the most part it seems to be back to normal...stiiiilll a little concerned. Will be backing up as many posts as I can manage.

[AngelofOctober]

Still having odd intervals where it suddenly gets really jittery for me. But for the most part it seems to be back to normal...stiiiilll a little concerned. Will be backing up as many posts as I can manage.

@The Elvenqueen

This. But nowhere near as bad. Just odd stutters.

[Demonic Angel]

roleplayerguild.com/topics/166206-sam…

Sorry about this guys. I'm happy to hear our site is running a bit smoother today.

[Lady Absinthia]

It's slow over all but nothing horrible. My biggest thing is trying to access my bio page... Haven't been able to for nearly 24 hours. Keeps getting bad gateway.

[Mistiel]

I'm s-s-s-st-stuttering all over the s-s-site t-t-tonight still. M-m-Mahzzy please f-f-fix me. It t-t-t-takes me five m-m-minutes to load a p-p-p-page (to bad gateway 50% of the t-t-time). ;-;

[HueMan]

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Happens every so often when the guild runs without a reboot. There's only guesses short of Mahz himself, the one with access to the actual backend - mine is that something caught in the server's memory that the guild files handled poorly, and chunked its displeasure back as a few day's worth of issues.

@ArenaSnow

Huh... so what happens if Mahz needs to be away for some time and actual trouble occurs?

[stark]

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Huh... so what happens if Mahz needs to be away for some time and actual trouble occurs?

@HueMan

Then we are in real trouble, friend.

[HueMan]

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Then we are in real trouble, friend.

@stark

..... oh. Well then.

[AngelofOctober]

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Huh... so what happens if Mahz needs to be away for some time and actual trouble occurs?

@HueMan

Isn't that already like the case? :P Love you Mahz, had to pokefun just a little.

[Lady Absinthia]

Well hopefully this incident, once @Mahz becomes aware of it, will lead to new procedures on contacting him in the future. Such as the staff having his phone number, at least the most active staff member. I would say co-Admin but considering Hank can go weeks without being on the site, I can't responsibly recommend that. I understand that the forum is a hobby thing and Mahz does it out of his free time, which the entire community is beyond grateful for, yet with such comes responsibility and a once a month check to see if the servers need to be cleaned is not too much to ask. Especially considering this happens frequently enough for longer term members to go "Just like last time and the time before that and the time before that..."

[PrinceAlexus]

Well hopefully this incident, once @Mahz becomes aware of it, will lead to new procedures on contacting him in the future. Such as the staff having his phone number, at least the most active staff member. I would say co-Admin but considering Hank can go weeks without being on the site, I can't responsibly recommend that. I understand that the forum is a hobby thing and Mahz does it out of his free time, which the entire community is beyond grateful for, yet with such comes responsibility and a once a month check to see if the servers need to be cleaned is not too much to ask. Especially considering this happens frequently enough for longer term members to go "Just like last time and the time before that and the time before that..."

@Lady Amalthea

Or leave a guide to staff to run basic maintenance if possible?

Redundant layers of support and backups.
It works in many environments, cross training and cover layers to prevent gaps on coverage.

[Hank]

The big boss has been alerted of the server problems.

[Jurassic Weeb]

I've found that accessing my PMs can be more than a bit problematic. I've found that accessing PMs from notifications can get you to them without much issue though.

[Silver Fox]

Having difficulties navigating to any Interest Check pages. Slow and laggy and takes several tries. Though everywhere seems to be alright on my end

[PrinceAlexus]

PM a tad slow but least RP pages are loading.

Discord is a handy stand in for now.

[Carlyle]

roleplayerguild.com/posts/4587036

Got a double post right here.