Planned system outage for host migration

[jonastio]

Forum will be down at the following time:

Date: Saturday, 19 September 2020
Maintenance Window: Midnight - 8:00AM (GMT)

The hosting provider is doing some upgrades.

[polebarn]

So 8pm-4am local?

[Tack Driver]

If you're installing the bullshit filters, with these yahoos, you might as well just shut it down permanently.

[dave]

Forum will be down at the following time:

Date: Saturday, 19 September 2020
Maintenance Window: Midnight - 8:00AM (GMT)

The hosting provider is doing some upgrades.

We don't agree, a lot, but I appreciate what you do for us. Thank you!

[jonastio]

If you're installing the bullshit filters, with these yahoos, you might as well just shut it down permanently.

I'll consider it.

[polebarn]

WWRD?

[Bodo]

I dunno if I would have told people in advance. Let them all think you shut it down. Maybe a few forced hours away would reset some folks estrogen levels...

[0utlaw]

Sure man, you can say that because you have an actual life....this is all I got man, don't fuck with it!

[Johnny]

Thanks for the heads up jonas,we appericate what you do.

[jonastio]

Database took a shit. I'm assuming the hosting provider didn't shut down all the systems cleanly. My last backup was from end of July, but I was able to recover the system without much hassle without having to restore from backups. If y'all run into any issues, then y'all run into issues. Good luck.

[0utlaw]

Thanks Jonas!

[0utlaw]

And the "like" button is broke :escape:

[jonastio]

*sigh* I'm going to go spend time with the kids. I'll look at it later.

[0utlaw]

We'll survive, take care of the important stuff, you don't get a second chance....trust me on that one.

[mattb]

*sigh* I'm going to go spend time with the kids. I'll look at it later.

Hang with your family man. This thing will be fine until you get around to it.

[Johnny]

Yes take care of those children you do not realize how important that is until you have to bury them.One son,1 daughter.I worked to much.

[Dale Gribble]

*sigh* I'm going to go spend time with the kids. I'll look at it later.

Please do, as the like buttons are seriously not a big deal.

[WinterSoldier]

Well, it's not like I couldn't tell it was dead, but I've been dealing with a disaster of major proportions for a number of days, got even less than my next to no sleep for days, and missed the five minute warning that my normal night-shift schedule was obliterated... BUT, it's like this... in an operation like this ya gotta take what ya gets er ya gets nuthin'... so I'm not complaining at all. I'm grateful for what can be done.

[notcreative]

I really appreciate all you do for the rest of us/

[jonastio]

Okay, none of the real data is corrupt. The only thing that got corrupted were a couple of tables that were almost caches of the primary "thanks" database table. I'm working on a rebuild of the two "cache" tables now. Should be a couple of hours.

[0utlaw]

Careful, you'll ruin your bad reputation :cooler:

[jonastio]

Holy crap, that took forever and was way more of a pain in the ass. I ended up having to force the database online, do a complete backup of everything, delete EVERYTHING and then do a restore from the dump. I tried a lot of different crap to avoid it (I hate deleting shit because something might get missed) and I'm no database admin, but it ended up getting to the point that I had to nuke it from orbit because things got fucked all because the hosting service couldn't be assed to shut the server down before they did the migration.

Guess I finally need to update my backup script.

There's your like button.

[jonastio]

Also, the button click cache is being rebuilt since it was in read-only mode when some folks clicked it. All posts pull from the "cache" table, so since it was read only and nothing was able to update it (which was why you were seeing the error when clicking the like button) none of the posts will show that a like button was clicked until the rebuild is done. Maybe about 30 minutes.

[jonastio]

Oh, and some of y'all saying thanks can go suck wax fruit as you're talking out of both sides of your mouth anyways. Your appreciation is worth about as much as what I flushed down the crapper a bit ago.

[jonastio]

Oh how I wish I could "like" that you disliked that post, WS.

[WinterSoldier]

Good thing the dislike button works now too. :cooler:

I did a zillion hours of unpaid, voluntary, work in my past life, and never once did anyone as much as say "thank you" though one guy handed out some crazy plaques to some of us, and I got a generic scoutmaster plaque from the guys I had previously made special ones for. There were reasons for that, though, and such things are not a competition, anyway. You need to at least consider and not entirely reject out of hand the idea that SOMEBODY might be sincere when they express appreciation. Is that appreciation "worth" something? I aver that it is and suggest that if you don't think so perhaps you should reevaluate your definition of "worth". And if expressions of appreciation embarrass you... tough titty!

[jonastio]

Well I tell you what. If you wanna be a dickhead to someone and then tell that someone thanks for the ride, then it's just a "thanks" from a dickhead. It has the equivalent value of a backhanded compliment. I'm sure you can find my address and then send me any fucks of mine you find lying about, but until then I just don't have enough fucks to give a fuck about your opinion, flying or otherwise.

[0utlaw]

Oh how I wish I could "like" that you disliked that post, WS.

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Let me help you out, as a token of my appreciation.

[Bodo]

This thread needs more fucks. Come to think of it, I need more fucks. Be back later...

[0utlaw]

Poor goats :headslap:

[Bodo]

It's not rape if they don't say no...

[Cattle/Horses]

It's not rape if they don't say no...

Even if they said no, who'd believe a goat?

[jeephipwr]

They can't tell you "it was good" but they can say "baaaaad"

[Cattle/Horses]

Bodo had one that would say Taaaaaaack.

[0utlaw]

First goat in history to get stump broke

[Bodo]

Bodo had one that would say Taaaaaaack.

How did you find out? Outlaw keeps telling me they don't tell secrets.

[Bodo]

They can't tell you "it was good" but they can say "baaaaad"

Sounds like sheep.

[0utlaw]

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