Forum Downtime

[Fusion]

I've noticed that the forums seem to be down a little more often than is acceptible, in order to get my hosts to properly investigate this I would like you to record, then post the following information if you have problems getting onto the forums:

The time you noticed the forums were down
Your ip address
If you can view the forums at http://renegade-legion.org/forums/
If you can view http://www.fusion-reactor.net/
If you can view http://www.bbc.co.uk/ (this one checks the problem isn't with YOU :))
The time you noticed the forums were back up

[Neraj]

they were back up 12.41 am and all 3 links work, ip is 84.9.90.106

[Fusion]

When were they down for you?

[Fusion]

This may longer be necesary:Dear Customer,

UK Web.Solutions Direct is pleased to announce that have moved our web hosting operation to the UK and are now housed at Redbus II in London.

HOW WILL THIS AFFECT ME?
We will are migrating all existing clients over to the UK data centre in stages and your reseller account is next to be moved.

HOW WILL THE MOVE WORK?
1) At 10am on Saturday the 5th of February 2005, we will start copying your reseller account across to the new server. You don't need to worry about moving your sites as we will take care of this for you.

2) As soon as the account copy has completed we will update the IP's of your nameservers to those of the new server. Once the IP's are changed over your reseller account will be viewed from the new server, your website will remain online during this time.

If you or your clients run any mySQL based applications and do not wish to loose any data during the copy, we recommend you disable these from 9am Saturday and re-activate them once we confirm your account has been copied.

WHAT SPECIFICATION ARE THE NEW SERVERS?
We have invested into high performance servers, our new web servers are 1U rack mounted machines with the following specification:

Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon CPU's (with Hyper Threading makes 4 CPU's) 2GB ECC Registered RAM
2 x 200GB SATA HDD's

You will also notice an improvement in network performance. Our UK network offers less network hops and lower latency; this will result in your website being served quicker than before.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask, you can email us at support@ukwsd.com.

Kind Regards,

Support Department

UK Web.Solutions Direct
http://www.ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk

[Fusion]

Move is done...

Everything seems to be a lot quicker now :)

[Hincey]

Alot quicker dont have to keep clicking Post Reply or New Posts all the time now, handy eh? :D

[DestRox]

yeh forum been down yesterday.. and this afternoon some... for me
with msg that it will be back up again "this morning" or something like that..
atm all seem to work right.

[Fusion]

LOL turns out it was still on the US server. I found out when I logged in yesterday afternoon and the forums were missing a day's posts :eek:

Everything has been sorted now (fingers crossed). All I have left to do is update the forum and reapply all the hacks (not looking forward to that :().

[ForakExertus]

Maybe an idea if these forums go down for 2 days again to open up the old forums until the issue is resolved? those still seem as stable as a rock

[Fusion]

They didn't go down for two days.

The were down for an approximate total of 24 hours in a 72 hour period.

The old forums are shut for good.

[ForakExertus]

I kept getting the error message even tho one of my friends could see the forums just fine, this a DNS issue?

[Fusion]

Yes.

[GuardianAnge1]

seems as if we have a Fusion v2 now aswell.