Forum was down today

[Mike]

The forum was down today with database issues. Still workin on getting the other items that use the db up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mike

[Lucy]

Thanks for letting us know and for all the work you do to keep us up and running!

[Time]

Yeah that gave me a scare. Finally it works again.

[aquarist48]

Nice to be back! Thanks Mike!
Ken

[SCUGrad]

I haven't been able to get into the site for several days. I just got in now. Has the site been down for more than one day?

[mathas]

Originally Posted by SCUGrad

I haven't been able to get into the site for several days. I just got in now. Has the site been down for more than one day?

Yes.

[SCUGrad]

Oh whew! I thought you guys were just trying to keep me out.

[djbrist]

Yipeee! TY Mike!

[emanluke]

Thanks Mike for all the work you put into this. Glad to be back and hearing about all the fish!

[peacemaker92]

Wow! Thank you so much Mike! I nearly died when I couldn't enter Fishlore for several days. Worst of all, my tank broke down on me while Fishlore was down, so I couldn't post anything about my tank...

[jwokmuba2]

thanks mike wooooooooo! so glad tobe back

[Psychlist1972]

Any idea what happened?

[Martha]

Mike; So glad to get back on the Forum.....what a lot of work you put in!!! Thank you....

[Mike]

Wow - what an ordeal... turns out the db problems were not the real "cause" of the problems at all. I was getting tons of automated db error emails and tried everything I could to get the db back up. Doing table repairs, reading log files, calling tech support, etc. In my research into the issues I found out that our previous host has a sister company called fastdomains and they are the registrar for the domain name and when they closed down the hosting account they turned off the domain name too! Unbelievable. So, when they turned off the domain name it started resolving across the globe and then the site simply vanished since none of the registration servers knew the ip addy for the site.

Sorry for the downtime but there was literally nothing I could do other than get them to reinstate the domain and that took several help tickets, phone calls, live chats and it is still not totally resolved. But, hopefully tomorrow the issues of our previous host will be no more and smooth sailing from here.


Mike

[peacemaker92]

Such a big problem because of the host? That's terrible. I hope everything will be smooth sailing from here too. It'd be such a hassle again for Fishlore to go down again because of this problem. Thanks Mike!

[Ekrindul]

Glad you're back up. Hadn't realized how much I have come to enjoy this site until it vanished.

[SCUGrad]

I thought it was strange that the site disappeared and you were saying earlier that it was a db problem.

Anyways, all is well that ends well

[pamd]

I just now got back online with Fish Lore, and have checked frequently including a few hours ago when it was still down for me. I guess it took a while to populate the newly fixed domain across the Internet, but it's up and running now! Yay Mike! You must have been sweating bullets over all this, knowing what a big community you have here.