Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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Sorry for the downtime
I think that the forum has been behaving badly because the database filesystem was nearly full. I had earlier thought that maybe the database tables
just needed to be repaired and optimized, so I kicked off a scripted process to repair and optimize all of them yesterday. I believe this was the
source of downtime, because the process got stuck on the attachments table (many gigabytes of binary data) when it did not have enough working space
left on the disk. I only noticed the stuck process this morning and considered the lack of disk space at that point.
I freed up disk space, temporarily shut down the web server altogether, and repaired/optimized the attachments table successfully. I have some hopes
that this will fix the intermittent posting errors users have been experiencing, but I'm not sure.
PGP Key and corresponding e-mail address
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solo
International Hazard
Posts: 3967
Registered: 9-12-2002
Location: Estados Unidos de La Republica Mexicana
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Mood: ....getting old and drowning in a sea of knowledge
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....its good to hear you're still around, ...I was concerned about the status of the forum...thank you for the many years of your time and effort in
keeping this forum going.....solo/java
It's better to die on your feet, than live on your knees....Emiliano Zapata.
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ELRIC
Hazard to Others
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Registered: 23-2-2015
Location: Kentucky
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Quote: Originally posted by solo  | | ....its good to hear you're still around, ...I was concerned about the status of the forum...thank you for the many years of your time and effort in
keeping this forum going.....solo/java |
I second this.
Glad to here all is well with the server. Hoping all is well with you too Polverone. I send my thanks as well for the many years you have hosted the
greatest server on the internet the world has ever known.
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BromicAcid
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Registered: 13-7-2003
Location: Wisconsin
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Glad to see it back up and kicking but always feel as if we're on borrowed time with this old message board software.
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ELRIC
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Registered: 23-2-2015
Location: Kentucky
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Yeah I've often wondered if it would eventually quit running. This old style has grown on me over the years and I love it though. Pure, clean and
simple.
With no distractions.
[Edited on 6-2-2024 by ELRIC]
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charley1957
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Registered: 18-2-2012
Location: Texas
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Mood: Extracted
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I’m glad to see the forum is back up. Thanks to you Polverone for all your time and energy keeping things running. I’m a member of another forum
for old Dodge trucks, and that forum has been offline for over a week, finally coming back up this morning. When I saw SciMad down all I could think
of was Oh no, not another one. But both of my favorite haunts are back up and running.
You can’t claim you drank all day if you didn’t start early in the morning.
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Sulaiman
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Location: 3rd rock from the sun
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+1
I too am grateful for your continuous commitment,
Well done, and thank you.
Thanks also to administrators and moderators for protecting this legacy.
CAUTION : Hobby Chemist, not Professional or even Amateur
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Bedlasky
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Location: Period 5, group 6
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I was little bit worried what's going on. I am glad that everything is okay. Thanks Polveron for your work on the forum!
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fx-991ex
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Registered: 20-5-2023
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Yeah i was worrying too, dont want to come here with a website seized warning.
Do we have any backup of the website in case it ever get taken down? soo many great info in here would not want to lose this.
Also about old website, sometime when they update stuff like PHP they will remove/rename functions and some website stop working, its a pita, admin
have to manually edit the site code to use the new function.(i had to do that back in the day).
Also, usually, its possible to import/port the database to a newer forum version.
I had a website that ran under phpnuke, and many years later i took the forum back online with just phpbb board. Kept all account/posts, so its
doable.
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macckone
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Location: Over a mile high
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| Quote: Originally posted by fx-991ex | Yeah i was
Do we have any backup of the website in case it ever get taken down? soo many great info in here would not want to lose this.
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There is a backup.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=12051&page=4
It would be nice if it was updated.
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