DOWNTIME: 9th March 2019, 8:13pm to 9:26pm

digitalscream

OK, so that was squeaky-bum time.

Linode apparently had a bit of a communication problem with one of their storage arrays, right in the middle of an update to the database table that stores all of our comments. That led to a massive inconsistency in the database file pointers, which meant that MySQL essentially lost track of 95% of the forum content.

Bit of an oopsie, that.

Anyway, managed to track down the problem and repair the table. If you can see this, it's all good.

Apologies for the disruption, folks.

On the bright side, our total downtime for the last 5 years is now 9 hours and 10 minutes, which is still 99.98% uptime.

GoldenEraGuitars

I wish I knew what any of that meant.

Oh wait, no i don’t

thumpingrug

Well done on getting it sorted so quickly. 

Legionreturns

digitalscream said:

If you can see this, it's all good.

Emp_Fab

Well that’s just crap.  99.98%?  I’m not putting up with that.
 Call that a service?  You should be ashamed of yourself.

You nearly gave me a coronary (another)...

This place is like M&S Crack.


Not just any crack, but organic, 60-day matured, hand-reared, free-range crack.

Bridgehouse

Emp_Fab said:

Well that’s just crap.  99.98%?  I’m not putting up with that.
 Call that a service?  You should be ashamed of yourself.

Come back when you’ve done 99.98% of your laminate floor

Lodious

Thank you for all your efforts, can you remind me how we donate to the forum?

mrkb

You are a star, I thought I was going to go off into the wide blue internet yonder and seek new experiences, but that thought scared me, so I’m happy to be back with my thefretboard vitual mates.

PolarityMan

digitalscream said:

Anyway, managed to track down the problem and repair the table. If you can see this, it's all good.

See what?

Legionreturns

(Well done Lee, and thank you for dropping everything on a Saturday night! I'm sure we're all glad we don't have to converse with our significant others!) 

CarpeDiem

Congratulations on fixing the issue quickly. It sounds like it could have been far more disruptive.

Bridgehouse

There were a few moments there when I thought Lee was going to have a significant soiling issue

PolarityMan

Yo chief. Great work but that post of mine that has 42,349 Wow's was lost somewhere in the recovery...if you'd kindly credit mt account....

Moominpapa

NIce on-the-fly recovery job - well played, sir.

LuttiS

Good job Lee.. gawd.. almost had to socialise on a Saturday night,, 

monquixote

Well done on sorting it. Corrupt databases are no fun.

steveledzep

Nice one.  Pat on the back time !

ToneControl

you should be running TSB's systems  for them

Freebird

How will I find out WTF has Trump done now!?

Snags

This whole "you get what you pay for" thing is just bollocks. Top job, and many thanks for fucking up your Saturday evening on our behalf.

Dominic

I don't understand any of it but thank you for making un-broken