Site outage Sunday 5/22 and today ** PLEASE READ **

[Bas]

The site was down almost all day Sunday, and came back early Monday morning. Our web hosting support team is still working through some issues, so there is a good chance we'll go offline again later today. Please bear with us as we try to get everything working again.

 

[Bas]

We've been moved to a new server, which appears to be working well. Hopefully this is the end of the problems and we'll stay up.

 

[MarkE]

Wish I would have read this post yesterday, but the site was down. :wwink:

 

[Henry W]

Re: FYI - "My posts" and "my threads" not functioning for me

Not sure if this is related to moving to a new server, but the search functions "My posts" and "My threads" are not functioning for me.

Henry

 

[Tarhead]

https://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_66987736560

It's not an "Official" function/arm of NCWW but a nice resource when the main site goes down to let us know what's going on.

 

[Bas]

Re: FYI - "My posts" and "my threads" not functioning for me

Not sure if this is related to moving to a new server, but the search functions "My posts" and "My threads" are not functioning for me.

Henry

Henry, I suggest you log out of the site and then log back in again (remembering to check the "Remember me" box").

Explanation 1: The cookie that holds your ID on your browser doesn't get send to the new server, which means the system doesn't know which posts you've read. Logging in again will freshen the cookie.

Explanation 2: Logging in again will magically fix things.

 

[Alan in Little Washington]

Bas, how often is a backup done? Is a full, sequential, or other type of backup done so if the server is totally smoked, all files, except those posted since the last backup, can be restored?

I was a member of a site that lost almost everything- all forum threads and photo files. It took a herculean effort restore what was left and get the site back working.

Thanks.

 

[Bas]

Bas, how often is a backup done? Is a full, sequential, or other type of backup done so if the server is totally smoked, all files, except those posted since the last backup, can be restored?

I was a member of a site that lost almost everything- all forum threads and photo files. It took a herculean effort restore what was left and get the site back working.

Thanks.

Backups are taken daily, weekly and monthly. so the chances of a catastrophic data loss are fairly small. I've seen a number of sites lose everything as well, those are always painful events.