Comments on: Forums undergoing upgrade

By: MichaellaS

MichaellaS — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:19:24 +0000

tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!

By: Bacteria

Bacteria — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:59:39 +0000

Not only have two weeks of updates on the forum been lost but we are getting to a fortnight now without a forum working properly either – It is so completely slow it is unusable, and that is when it works at all at the moment. I am really looking forward to when the forum is up properly again.

By: bicostp

bicostp — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:14:28 +0000

Well, I asked but never got a response. I didn’t do it on my own because it taxes the server a bit and I didn’t want to mess any upgrading progress up.

The subdomain is, right now, spitting out a directory listing, and it’s phpbb 2 again. That’s okay. Once everything is back up and running again we can try installing version 3 in its own directory and figure out what’s all ‘botched up’.

Triton, how old was it? Was it from when the site moved to its own box? At least tell me it was from April… *worried*

By: Triton

Triton — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:00:47 +0000

ok so the forums back up, just how FREAKIN OLD is the version of the DB you uploaded anyway, over a week for sure, didnt bic or somebody make a backup earlier this week?

By: bicostp

bicostp — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:14:56 +0000

So the phpbb 3 upgrade was not a HUGE SUCCESS? :c

What went wrong? Was there a problem upgrading the database contents, or maybe there was some prerequisite that wasn’t installed? And did they tell you why the SQL server was using 90% of the system resources in the first place?

Sorry about all the recent website troubles; we’ll try to not whine about them anymore. (Or at least cut back… ;)

By: benheck

benheck — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:06:31 +0000

But the server is… STILL ALIVE!

Hopefully we’ll get them back up tonight, but to be safe, we’re using a pre-botched phpBB3 version of the database. So some posts will be lost.

By: Triton

Triton — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:54:50 +0000

as cool as the (horribly filmed) still alive video is ITS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE REPLACEMENT FOR THE FORUMS! lol, the combo of flubbed phpbb3 install and UBER traffic made the forums go down in flames

By: Metroid_343

Metroid_343 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:51:42 +0000

Aww… no phpBB 3 this time… :( Today it seems that the forums are back up, but nearly impossible to access.

By: benheck

benheck — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:22:43 +0000

Actually our phpBB 3 upgrade had a lot of issues, so we’re now just trying to revert back safely.

We’ll get there someday, hopefully when there’s less traffic.

-Ben

By: Jongamer

Jongamer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:49:09 +0000

Yeah, right when I got home, and went to the site and said they were down and within’ like a min ghosstt told me that the forums were being upgraded to phpbb 3.

YAY!!!