oh wow, how informative. ^_^ So our problems were caused by some other evil web site, huh. :P I thought you said somthing about only being able to access the net from work atm? Well hope your feeling better.
Problem with the Forums
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yay some explanation thank you… oceanizer
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I thought you said somthing about only being able to access the net from work atm? Well hope your feeling better.
I got net back one day before I got sick ^^ Maybe I got sick because I used net too much in a cold room >.>;
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Oh.. it returned again. ><
Aye, at least we know it's gonna be fixed sometime.Oh, btw, feel well ocean.
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Oh god, now I can't even see spoilers because they are hidden
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Oh god, now I can't even see spoilers because they are hidden
Yeah. This is getting seriously annoying. :getlost:
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This is getting on my nerves, I can't even browse this thread normally, I probably won't be able to read what I wrote here either.
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I'm getting half-loaded pages everytime I do anything… tis annoying, indeed.
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yeah, when it happened to me, I just thought it was odd and reloaded the page… usually works ^_^
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ocean…...
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And crying still not working. :sad:
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Same here.
A suggestion for others facing same problem, I've just changed my thread display mode to Linear Newest First, so that even if the page only load halfway, I'm still able to view the newest posts. -
OMG ! I can finaly see something on this forum. I have the white screen problem on about 95% of the forum, can only see the main page, all of the anouncement part and the spoiler sub form on the manga part, everthing else the the white page .
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As much as I don't want to write this….
I suggest the forums be closed to fix the problems and maybe perhaps add a 56K Friendly skin; I have NEVER encountered problems with using this in ANY VB forum I've been in. -
mhhh taking a long time to fix it…:sad:
by me their arent the mainsite mistakes just can only read the first 4-7posts in every thred....also sometimes some posts ars like cut up....mhhh the server should be taken down for 2-3days at the end to fix it....so it doesn
t really work...but oceanizer talked to theserverguy
so it will be having hoply soon an end....you can take the server down after the newest chapter from my side
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ARLONG PARK IS COLLAPSING!!! JUST LIKE IN THE SHOW. It was BOUND TO HAPPEN EVENTUALLY!!!
RUN FOR YOUR LIIIVESSSS!!!
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nickel. that is a very smart idea
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Funny thing. You know what that is?
Forum isn't still working.Yeah, funny indeed. :sad:
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**There was a problem with the forums? I didn't notice.
Hope it gets fixed, even though it doesn't seem to be affecting me at all.**
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Yeah, if closing the forum for a couple of days is required to get it work properly again then I´m all for it. It´s not like no forum is that much more worse then what we´re experiencing now.
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@ocean:
Sorry that I didn't inform you… I did talk to the server guy right when it went down, but he was already working on it. Here is the report.
Today our machines were unable to keep up with the traffic that were being
sent to them, as a result there were load issues, causing sites to stop
loading periodically throughout the day. From our existing statistics it
was believed an additional machine on this cluster would not be needed for
another month or two, which proved to be false.Our existing 2 server cluster was sent so much legitimate traffic, that no
matter what we did, it was very hard for it to continue to stay online. As
a result many system changes were put in to place such as apache tweaks
and system priorities being adjusted which allowed the machine to continue
running.As a result of these issues we quickly placed an order with our upstream
provider for a new machine, which we are awaiting parts and for it to be
brought online. We ordered an additional Dual Xeon Dempsey 2.66ghz with
2GB’s ram, to work as an additional web server.I would like to ensure you all that you are in good hands. As we are
switching from our existing two server setup, to a 3 server cluster, there
are some changes that need to be made. Our only major change that requires
your notification is that of downtime while we move accounts to new drives
to make use of NFS for mounting and sharing files and data across multiple
web servers. There will be no permission issues, each user’s UID/GID will
be synced to the new machine. This is not expected to last for more than a
minute at most.We are not ready to move sites to our additional drive as there are
changes and testing we need to complete before then. As of this point we
will be syncing and moving all files to our other drive on Sunday at 12pm
EST or about 9pm Pacific Time.There will be nothing required on your part. Each site will be checked to
ensure it is working correctly on the new drive.If you have any questions or concerns please contact me as soon as possible.
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So, you should post that in the Announcements section, forum downtime on Sunday noon. Thanks for telling us, though. And there WON'T be deletion of accounts, right? I hope there won't, because otherwise people might take the names of former members and pose as them. That would be awesome though.
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I think that was from last week or something… Meh, might as well I post more update:
We were able migrate all accounts to our secondary drive with no downtime,
everything went smoothly. Our new machine has arrived on schedule,
however, under further testing after it was setup it was learned that
there are issues with the motherboard that cause it to lockup under load.
A new motherboard was ordered today and is expected to be delivered
tomorrow morning.Once the new motherboard arrives, our 2nd web machine will be placed
online under our new load balancer.We have been having load issues due to a customer’s vbulletin forum
causing the web machine to lock up, for reasons we are not able to explain
even after many days of testing.Once the new machine is brought online and added to our load balancer, we
will work to see if after we stress test the machine with the user on it
that is causing the problems if we will be able to continue to host them
on these machines.We were just sent a status update by our host, once the new motherboard
was delivered to his office, he went down the datacenter right away and
installed the new motherboard, however, the new motherboard was also
defective. When asked for more details we were told he has had other
hardware issues with the motherboards given to other customers.Our host reordered a new motherboard for us, and in order to ensure we can
get this new machine online as soon as possible, we also paid for an
additional motherboard, which will be a different brand and should arrive
either tomorrow or Friday. This way if one motherboard is bad, we will
have a second motherboard,that is a different brand to fall back on.I am aware of problems due to high load, so I tried to arrange a machine
that our host has currently in stock, but the only other machines in stock
are P4’s which cannot handle much of any load, and so we decided against
using them for performance reasons.It's not our forum that caused this whole mess, by the way. It's some other forum that uses vB. The server guy tested that site with fake data and it had no problem, but if he replaced the certain data with real data, the problem persists. He has no idea why that is happening. So whenever that particular site gets lots of traffic, other sites that are hosted on the same machine will get affected. We are one of them. Adding a new machine is just a workaround.
Closing the forum won't do us any good at the moment.
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Argh, this is driving me nuts, I can see four posts in a thread if I'm lucky, and refreshing does nothing for me, just takes an awfully long time and then gives me the can't find site bullshit.
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hmm
im having the same problems too.i always get some code at the end..
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mhhh now it seems that everything works normal again for me….juppie hope that isn`t just for now so.....i will see lol
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just go into options and put it at 5 posts a page, and get the latest posts to view first (as suggested by nickel). That's all we can do for now. It helps.
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Well, for me it is not back to normal…I still only see the first 4-6 post on every page >_<
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Ugh, the problem has returned for me..I had to view the new posts on this thread via the reply page.
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At the moment I can't see any posts in this thread.
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If dummy data is able to pass through, but real data causes the machine to lock up, then
(1.) The real data passing through is carrying too much data per packet, too many users are sending real data at once, or the real data is using a datatype that the machine is unable to process.
Or
(2.) That site is being watched for relevant packet data, most probably by a bot. This indicates unwanted- and most likely criminal- activity.
It is unlikely that the other site has been hacked; That would have shown up as a spike in server activity. Moreover, such an action would have set off several alarms. Most likely, it is some datatype that the machine cannot handle, due to a missing or corrupted application
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Yeah, still not working for me.
…Sigh.
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Hmm, but it does work for me. Dunno what happened, but thanks for fixing!
I can finally rest in peace [ie. lurking on the forum]. -
Yeah, it worked for me this morning too but now it is all back to the old problem again. :(
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Really? It keeps up with me now. Once in a while it pops up but one refresh does it.
Do you use Explorer 7?
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Nah, I use Firefox. I guess waiting does the trick. I´m not constaly posting here to complain, just to keep an update about my situation (which I guess is the same for others too then).
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MY GOD! that penguin is funny! well hope you feel better now!
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A day or so ago I got the problem with the site not showing up, like it's down or nonexistant. Just a few minutes ago, my own thread decided it only wanted to load half the page, and the last post was just an avatar, the bar with the avatar in it, and a black box where text and a grey background should be.
Refreshing fixed it. Not the first problem, the half laoded issue.
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Yeah, I also have that problem that one of my opening posts won´t load fully for me. That´s the reason why I can´t update my character names faq, it is so large that it doesn´t load up to the edit button. Perhaps its even better to not update it as long as the forums are going through this.
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Yeah, I also have that problem that one of my opening posts won´t load fully for me. That´s the reason why I can´t update my character names faq, it is so large that it doesn´t load up to the edit button. Perhaps its even better to not update it as long as the forums are going through this.
Any updates?
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Still not working.
This is getting really sad, you guys.
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Oh, so it wasn't just my computer… not working
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I've adjusted my settings and I've still been able to enjoy the board, even when the problems do occur for me.
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Hah the forums changed color. Hopefully this means the problem is fixed.
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It still is the same as it was. It's really weird to read 5 post long pages.
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Hah the forums changed color. Hopefully this means the problem is fixed.
nope, still not loading sometimes for me. Love the colors thought. Does it come in purple?
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i've a this problem for weeks now. I only figured recently that I can view this forum if i turn off the norton internet security, but even then I only see like four posts each page. it sucks.
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I'm having this problem too!! ARGH. I cannot read any posts unless I quote someone and read through, since the page will not load all the way. Refreshing does NOT work for me. dies
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It's kind of odd because my problems have been very minimal. Only once in a while a page won't load all the way but I just hit refresh and it loads.
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My problems are even growing. I may have taken care of how to read every post with using the five posts per page setting but from time to time I can´t reply, can´t use the search feature AND can´t use PM´s.