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Post by JensJohansson » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:51 am

You must for now be logged in to even read posts. This is not a bug. New registrations are suspended. If you can read this, you're in!
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Post by dirge » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:21 am

I think i'm in... i'm sure i've said that before...then I became a dad 9 months later! So Jens, you're right! :D

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Post by IceBreaker » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:39 am

Hm, by suspending new registrations it would reduce a lot mess caused by worried fans, and prevents traffic of too big amount of guest readers which could lead the server down I guess.
But on the other hand it gives a feeling the countdown of the forum has started...
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Post by browneyedgirl » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:52 am

Sentenced broke up&their forum is still open!
Yeah, I know it costs money. Maybe we could pass the hat.......
Seriously, hope this forum can stay afloat a couple more months anyway.
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Post by stratoplayer » Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:05 am

IceBreaker wrote:Hm, by suspending new registrations it would reduce a lot mess caused by worried fans, and prevents traffic of too big amount of guest readers which could lead the server down I guess.
But on the other hand it gives a feeling the countdown of the forum has started...
My thoughts exactly...
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Post by JensJohansson » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:56 pm

There is no "countdown" going on.. and don't worry about the cost, it's some sort of freebie situation with saunalahti.

All files are still here and I took a fresh snapshot of the database a few hours ago. So fwiw the forum is "safe".

It seems saunalahti's database server melted down due to traffic. I temporarily redirected everything that could possibly be tied into the database to a static page, except this place.

Oops, it seems I spoke too soon! Even just forum traffic seems to overload the database server sometimes as well. :) So here I am typing to myself. :)

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Post by RazielSR » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:29 pm

Jens you rooooooolzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!


I have send a mail to your panic mail!!
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Re: Forum

Post by Rebel » Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:04 am

So Jens, question, what was with Jorg saying there was no split? If the band is truly split up, then you should have no restrictions on to definitively saying if Jorg is just full of it and there really was a split, right?

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Post by ps » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:00 am

"Consists of two separate words that both start with R"
Oh damn, so it actually stands for "Rickrolled"! Who would have guessed?

Got you another one. Name the best prankster ever.
I'll even give you a clue: "Consists of two separate words that both start with J"

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Post by Neorave » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:54 pm

Rebel wrote:So Jens, question, what was with Jorg saying there was no split? If the band is truly split up, then you should have no restrictions on to definitively saying if Jorg is just full of it and there really was a split, right?
ps wrote:"Consists of two separate words that both start with R"
Oh damn, so it actually stands for "Rickrolled"! Who would have guessed?

Got you another one. Name the best prankster ever.
I'll even give you a clue: "Consists of two separate words that both start with J"

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:crazy1: ... :sick: ...how do these two posts even relate to the topic??? Makes my brain split.
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Re: Forum

Post by StragOvariuS » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:02 pm

Owned or my english is that big amount of shit nowadays? :P
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Post by Beast_Pete » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:27 pm

Forum seems to be fixed, at least there are more than 15 people logged in.
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Post by browneyedgirl » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:29 pm

Beast_Pete wrote:Forum seems to be fixed, at least there are more than 15 people logged in.
If THIS post makes it---its fixed! =P
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Post by dirge » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:16 am

browneyedgirl wrote:
Beast_Pete wrote:Forum seems to be fixed, at least there are more than 15 people logged in.
If THIS post makes it---its fixed! =P
Double testing! :)

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Post by Beast_Pete » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:08 am

triple
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Akkor is van még remény,
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Post by stratoplayer » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:07 am

No crashes so far...
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Post by JensJohansson » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:26 am

stratoplayer wrote:No crashes so far...
Plenty fucking outages!!! It's almost impossible to log in here. Long story, there is a lot more traffic and some fundamental quota changed the last year or so. (This is an issue with the hosting company, in that max_connections for mysql is now 100 per hour. I suspect they upgraded mysql and that's why.)

I may think of transplanting the forum data to another server in a day or two (or ten). I just wanted to make sure the new place would be stable enough so it wouldn't be "out of the fire into the frying pan". Well, it's stable...r. Load averages and response times on that machine are going down but I'm still not 100% convinced it's "fit for production", they have had severe problems for a month. But then on the other hand uptime here is pretty pathetic too, maybe it wouldn't matter much. Problems there (dreamhost.com) would manifest as long response times, rather than the complete denial of access as is the case here. Maybe that's better. Even if you have to wait for 30 secods for the page to render you can still get in.

Bleh.
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Post by NeonVomit » Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:09 pm

The Winter's Verge forum crashed as well yesterday, I think maybe from an overload :lol:
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Post by stratoplayer » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:04 am

JensJohansson wrote:
stratoplayer wrote:No crashes so far...
Plenty fucking outages!!! It's almost impossible to log in here. Long story, there is a lot more traffic and some fundamental quota changed the last year or so. (This is an issue with the hosting company, in that max_connections for mysql is now 100 per hour. I suspect they upgraded mysql and that's why.)

I may think of transplanting the forum data to another server in a day or two (or ten). I just wanted to make sure the new place would be stable enough so it wouldn't be "out of the fire into the frying pan". Well, it's stable...r. Load averages and response times on that machine are going down but I'm still not 100% convinced it's "fit for production", they have had severe problems for a month. But then on the other hand uptime here is pretty pathetic too, maybe it wouldn't matter much. Problems there (dreamhost.com) would manifest as long response times, rather than the complete denial of access as is the case here. Maybe that's better. Even if you have to wait for 30 secods for the page to render you can still get in.

Bleh.
It wasn't crashing a few days ago... yesterday though...


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Post by browneyedgirl » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:39 am

The "stay" time is getting longer--I was able to post 2 before I was bumped off! :D
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Post by JensJohansson » Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:28 pm

I moved it. Who knows if it will work.
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Post by Stratowarius » Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:38 pm

:) :) Welcome :o Nice to see you here again.The logging works :) :P

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Post by stratoplayer » Thu May 01, 2008 1:03 am

No wonder I had to sign in again...
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Post by browneyedgirl » Thu May 01, 2008 1:24 am

Seems to work! :) Spamming days are here again! Image

Hopefully! :evil:
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Post by JensJohansson » Thu May 01, 2008 8:22 am

There is the possibility to upload pictures here now. Use it responsible please.

NOTE! this so far only works in the "plain" board style (or layout of skin or whatever you want to call it)

Image

See? Works beautifully.

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Post by JensJohansson » Thu May 01, 2008 8:23 am

JensJohansson wrote:You must for now be logged in to even read posts. This is not a bug. New registrations are suspended.
Not any more, regarding all of the above.

This seems to work. Will leave it up, www.stratovarius.com is still pretty borken. May move that to this host as well. Cheerio... last one here turn off the lights...

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Post by dirge » Thu May 01, 2008 12:25 pm

Thank you Jens! :D

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Post by stratoplayer » Thu May 01, 2008 6:41 pm

Nice, good work man! Really appreciate it!
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Post by stratohawk » Thu May 01, 2008 7:45 pm

Thanks Jens! Good idea to block the forum, but still keep it alive.

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Post by miditek » Fri May 02, 2008 4:19 am

JensJohansson wrote:
JensJohansson wrote:You must for now be logged in to even read posts. This is not a bug. New registrations are suspended.
Not any more, regarding all of the above.

This seems to work. Will leave it up, www.stratovarius.com is still pretty borken. May move that to this host as well. Cheerio... last one here turn off the lights...

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