MacRumors Back Up

[arn]

MacRumors was down for about 2 hours today due to some database problems.

Everything should be back to normal. Please let me know if you notice any discrepancies.

arn

[Doctor Q]

Can you tell us more about the problems? Were they with vBulletin itself?

[Stelliform]

While reading the forums my two year old was banging on the keyboard. The next thing I knew MR wasn't responding. Sorry for the trouble Arn. ;)

(Actually at first I did blame him, until I checked a couple of other web pages and had Mudbug check too... :))

[arn]

Here was the problem per my server support people:

"It turns out that the hard drives were overheating and the server would not boot properly because of the heat. The server has been re-racked in open air and the case fan was replaced to remedy the problem."

[Stelliform]

Originally posted by arn
Here was the problem per my server support people:

"It turns out that the hard drives were overheating and the server would not boot properly because of the heat. The server has been re-racked in open air and the case fan was replaced to remedy the problem."

translation: a fan died, we didn't catch it, we didn't bother to put the case back on after we fixed it..... :D

[Doctor Q]

It seems like the kind of situation they should be monitoring before it gets to be a problem. Or maybe they did, and that's why they were fixing it on the weekend. All in all, two hours was a small sacrifice. And now we have proof that MacRumors is one of the hottest sites on the Internet!

[Powerbook G5]

We broke the servers! How about that. I guess we wore them out... ;)

[Billicus]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
We broke the servers! How about that. I guess we wore them out... ;)

Oh...:eek: It's that picture thread of yours PowerBook G5...lol...:D

[zach]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
And now we have proof that MacRumors is one of the hottest sites on the Internet!

Ha. That is pretty good.

Maybe the new forum skin should have flames, arn.