Did anyone else let out a Homer Simpson "Woo hoo!" when the forum loaded?
I did
Yep glad it's up again... what the heck happened there....?!
I checked like 9 times. I thought the forum died and honestly had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. And then I realized that I was being irrational, and that the forum will never die :)
Initially I thought it was a problem with tapatalk but when I tried to load it on my computer and got the white page with the error message I knew something was up.
Richard
I'm still refreshing for that winter sale
Quote from: ddog on December 06, 2014, 05:10:01 AM
I'm still refreshing for that winter sale
Agreed. I'm on major Dirtbaby watch
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Yeah I was hoping to get a time so I could either stay up or set an alarm. Knowing my luck I will sleep in and miss out on the new stuff.
Richard
I actually got caught up at work today due to the outage.
Cody
I think I'm strung out on this site...Felt lost without it!
Doctor Fegg is far away, doing things to sheep... he'll come here and do them to you, if you DON'T GO TO SLEEP!
I am glad forum is back, I was checking everything from fb to twitter for infos yesterday.. :D
FSB is down/crashed today...
Quote from: knauerj on December 06, 2014, 05:10:48 AM
Quote from: ddog on December 06, 2014, 05:10:01 AM
I'm still refreshing for that winter sale
Agreed. I'm on major Dirtbaby watch
Same here. I was up at 1 feeding my boy, and had to check ;)
I wonder if Brian would think of doing a groupbuy situation for those not lucky enough to get one today...
I was sweating bullets on this one. The problem was the messages table crashed and could not be repaired through the normal way. That's basically the entire forum...all the posts. But, luckily the host was able to get it back for me. I kinda knew what they had to do but just wasn't exactly sure of all the steps to do it. But, I did learn about using shell commands to control mysql in the process...so there's that.
Anyway, time for a new backup.
We're you able to repair or was it "restore from backup" time?
Quote from: madbean on December 06, 2014, 12:14:22 PM
I was sweating bullets on this one. The problem was the messages table crashed and could not be repaired through the normal way. That's basically the entire forum...all the posts. But, luckily the host was able to get it back for me. I kinda knew what they had to do but just wasn't exactly sure of all the steps to do it. But, I did learn about using shell commands to control mysql in the process...so there's that.
Anyway, time for a new backup.
And I thought I was being irrational when I got a little worried! Either way, I'm glad you worked it out. As I'm sure a lot of people are.
Quote from: aballen on December 06, 2014, 01:36:50 PM
We're you able to repair or was it "restore from backup" time?
It was repaired, not restored. The problem was the the repair kept failing because PHPmyAdmin could not create the necessary temp file to do it. This required shutting the sql server down and running a magic command to make it happen. I've requested the host send me the exact steps they used so I know for the future. I know it wasn't hard, but I had trouble finding the right commands to use to do all this (I don't know jack about sql). I need to find the time to learn about sql, PHP and shell stuff at some point.
Repair is always better if you can do it.
Lots of good info on the web for SQL/MySQL. You can spend an entire career learning that stuff though.
Sounds like your host/admins know what they are doing. It does seem like a lifetime, but it was fixed relatively quickly.
Glad it's all good!
DIYSB has been down some recently... I don't know what I would do if they were both down at the same time :o
Quote from: madbean on December 06, 2014, 01:58:33 PM
I need to find the time to learn about sql, PHP and shell stuff at some point.
I spent an entire year working with sql, flash, and PHP one time. It is not fun. You literally start dreaming of code and have variable variables floating around in your head. Then you try passing those variable variables through multi-dimensional arrays and your whole life becomes <?bad syntax"aaggghhhh">.
Quote from: lars on December 06, 2014, 04:20:37 PM
Quote from: madbean on December 06, 2014, 01:58:33 PM
I need to find the time to learn about sql, PHP and shell stuff at some point.
I spent an entire year working with sql, flash, and PHP one time. It is not fun. You literally start dreaming of code and have variable variables floating around in your head. Then you try passing those variable variables through multi-dimensional arrays and your whole life becomes <?bad syntax"aaggghhhh">.
I've been working on web development 13 months already and my contract expires on December and, even though it has been useful and has it's great moments, I feel kind of relieved.
PHP and mysql are less of a nightmare compared to javaScript, that thing is illogical and virtually undebuggable
Happy to be home again.