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Administration => Server Move and Outage Reports => Topic started by: Librarian on November 23, 2015, 04:47:59 PM
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withdrawal !!!
(2105? Will calguns be around in 90 years? I probably won't be..._
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Ban? Almost reported :)
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CGF is up.
Wiki is down.
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So its true?
I was smacking my router around, thinking it was a local issue. Then I thought to try some other sites.
Yes, I do this all day at work so my troubleshooting skills should be better, but I am getting older and forgetful. :P
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I thought it was beause of the OT split & I was banned from the non-gun OT !! :-*
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I got nuthin'.
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I've got nothing :-\
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Apparently it's not just the site, I can't get Geovario to load either.
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I, also, have nothing.
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I take a break from fallout 4 and I get a down calguns!?
thanks reagan!
Geovario down? Hack job? Someone tripped over the cable?
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Now i am drinking rum and eggnog.
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I guess it's time for candy crush.
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I guess it's time for candy crush.
Ill crush your candy.....
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(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/85/f9/bc/85f9bcfa5b47a8f33e77a141606547ed.jpg)
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Apparently it's not just the site, I can't get Geovario to load either.
Geovario no can do here, either.
Looks like they are DOA.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/geovario.com.html (http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/geovario.com.html)
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Shenanigans!!!
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Yeah it looks to be something big, CGN, Geo/ProfEdge and a couple other sites I know are hosted there are down.
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Due to the outage of the main site I have re-enabled new member registration here.
When this site is dormant I disable registration so I don't have hundreds of spammers to deal with.
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Finally able to register over here...
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When attempting traceroutes to calguns.net or geovario.com, I am receiving 'invalid domain' errors. Possibly a DNS issue?
Any IP's to try?
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In
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Im starting to have withdrawals. So I'm in here.
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Party?
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Wonder what's going on besides FP wanting to crush other people's candy?
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Traces are dying at 72.52.92.73, wherever that is.
EDIT> It looks to be a 10gig core router located in Fremont, CA operated by Hurricane Electric. it is passing packets, but they are being blocked at the next hop.
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I'm suffering here... :'(
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seems like this might be a long one :(
ETA, I just realized I'm (almost) a three year old newbie :o ;D
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I'm in!
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Freaking noobs! ;D
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Due to the outage of the main site I have re-enabled new member registration here.
When this site is dormant I disable registration so I don't have hundreds of spammers to deal with.
I wasn't able to log on with my usual user name and PW here so I had to create a new name.
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It was all the micro aggression in Randall banned thread...I know it.
Quick somebody post a black friday deal before peoples savings accounts get too big.
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Due to the outage of the main site I have re-enabled new member registration here.
When this site is dormant I disable registration so I don't have hundreds of spammers to deal with.
I wasn't able to log on with my usual user name and PW here so I had to create a new name.
Yeah, you're going to have to create a new account here if you've never signed up here.
The databases are not connected, if they were this site would be down too.
In fact this site is on a different host company entirely
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It was all the micro aggression in Randall banned thread...I know it.
Damn....Randall got banned again?
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OK, who will be the first to come up with a really good conspiracy theory as to why .net is down?
- Pelosi
- Øbama
- chemtrails
- .45 > 9mm
- fluoride
- mandatory vaccination
- Harry Tanges
- Moms Demand Don't Stop
- bacon
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tere server is undergoing hanges
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DysfunctionalVet
/thread. 8)
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OK, who will be the first to come up with a really good conspiracy theory as to why .net is down?
- Pelosi
- Øbama
- chemtrails
- .45 > 9mm
- fluoride
- mandatory vaccination
- Harry Tanges
- Moms Demand Don't Stop
- bacon
Whinygash
and we don't know who you are, since you used a new name...so, who are you? :-X
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OK, who will be the first to come up with a really good conspiracy theory as to why .net is down?
- Pelosi
- Øbama
- chemtrails
- .45 > 9mm
- fluoride
- mandatory vaccination
- Harry Tanges
- Moms Demand Don't Stop
- bacon
EMP.
Or Putin's submarines cut the undersea cables.
Or Obama, Feinstein, Boxer, Newsom got together and imposed censorship.
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and we don't know who you are, since you used a new name...so, who are you? :-X
I can't say.
(It's kind of a test, you see...)
Besides, I'm the man who needs no introduction.
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Due to the outage of the main site I have re-enabled new member registration here.
When this site is dormant I disable registration so I don't have hundreds of spammers to deal with.
HAHA! You fool! my plan is coming together, take out the main site so you'll enable registration here!
*rubs hands furiously together*
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Besides, I'm the man who needs no introduction.
SoCalEnthusiast?
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and we don't know who you are, since you used a new name...so, who are you? :-X
I can't say.
(It's kind of a test, you see...)
Besides, I'm the man who needs no introduction.
Marlin Perkins!! I knew it!!
What did I win?
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So this is a fun situation, I can not access the control panel to log a trouble ticket and the host site is down so emails can't get through to them either.
On the plus side the owner of the company is a Calgunner and I have his cell number. ;)
As of right now the info I have is that it is a major cascade hardware failure and they are trying to determine how many things failed at the same time.
It's not just us or anything malicious that we're aware of and they are working on it as we speak.
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Besides, I'm the man who needs no introduction.
That guy that bangs high profile chicks?
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Thanks for the update, sounds like I can go run some errands on not miss anything then
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now I gotta figure out this site. Thanks for leting me register here.
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So this is a fun situation, I can not access the control panel to log a trouble ticket and the host site is down so emails can't get through to them either.
On the plus side the owner of the company is a Calgunner and I have his cell number. ;)
As of right now the info I have is that it is a major cascade hardware failure and they are trying to determine how many things failed at the same time.
It's not just us or anything malicious that we're aware of and they are working on it as we speak.
tldr
So what you're saying is...it's time to rock n' roll, Calgunners mount up?!?! After yesterday, I'm not sure of our sharpshooting skills but I'm down anyway.
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That guy that bangs high profile chicks?
No. I check high profile banks.
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That guy that bangs high profile chicks?
No. I check high profile banks.
wernher von browning
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So this is a fun situation, I can not access the control panel to log a trouble ticket and the host site is down so emails can't get through to them either.
On the plus side the owner of the company is a Calgunner and I have his cell number. ;)
As of right now the info I have is that it is a major cascade hardware failure and they are trying to determine how many things failed at the same time.
It's not just us or anything malicious that we're aware of and they are working on it as we speak.
tldr
So what you're saying is...it's time to rock n' roll, Calgunners mount up?!?! After yesterday, I'm not sure of our sharpshooting skills but I'm down anyway.
At least you weren't in the 'Two and Out Club'... ;)
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Man, they let everyone in here 8)
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So this is a fun situation, I can not access the control panel to log a trouble ticket and the host site is down so emails can't get through to them either.
On the plus side the owner of the company is a Calgunner and I have his cell number. ;)
As of right now the info I have is that it is a major cascade hardware failure and they are trying to determine how many things failed at the same time.
It's not just us or anything malicious that we're aware of and they are working on it as we speak.
tldr
So what you're saying is...it's time to rock n' roll, Calgunners mount up?!?! After yesterday, I'm not sure of our sharpshooting skills but I'm down anyway.
At least you weren't in the 'Two and Out Club'... ;)
Umm...yes I was...thanks for paying attention to me. :p
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Due to the outage of the main site I have re-enabled new member registration here.
When this site is dormant I disable registration so I don't have hundreds of spammers to deal with.
I wasn't able to log on with my usual user name and PW here so I had to create a new name.
and already five posts! Post whore ;D
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Marlin Perkins!! I knew it!!
What did I win?
Just as the mother wombat protects her chicks, Mutual of Øbamanaw takes care of its loyal readers.
Yes, sir, YOU are the lucky winner of a date with our favorite pet giraffe!
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYa5GfnLQBlQW2XeVSiHrmkTFBAD2281fRzGkh6hD7nCNpsRFOjw
(That's the giraffe on the right, the rat on the left).
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question does this site ever go down?
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Marlin Perkins!! I knew it!!
What did I win?
Just as the mother wombat protects her chicks, Mutual of Øbamanaw takes care of its loyal readers.
Yes, sir, YOU are the lucky winner of a date with our favorite pet giraffe!
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYa5GfnLQBlQW2XeVSiHrmkTFBAD2281fRzGkh6hD7nCNpsRFOjw
(That's the giraffe on the right, the rat on the left).
Bwahahhaa! :)
Well played, sir.
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question does this site ever go down?
Aw man! You're gonna jinx it!
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I have master level hack in fallout 4. How can I help ?
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It was all the micro aggression in Randall banned thread...I know it.
Quick somebody post a black friday deal before peoples savings accounts get too big.
http://www.calguns.org/forum/index.php?topic=6475.0 (http://www.calguns.org/forum/index.php?topic=6475.0)
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sorry man, i was bad
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Dave just figure it out...we're all BANNED.
CGN isn't working for me.
You got banned.. What did you do?
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Whew, relief from withdrawl at least.
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Anonymous just tweeted that they took down several servers that were hosting ISIS ran websites. 8)
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Whew, relief from withdrawl at least.
Imagine hell is having to use this suck format instead of CGN proper...FOREVER...
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I have master level hack in fallout 4. How can I help ?
Jump on that multiple cascading hardware failure and check the power strip. Insure that the components restart in the correct order.
(Not being facetious; this would be a typical response where I work).
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is randall banned from here
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Aaaaaaaargh!
:o
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I blame Gavin Newsome...
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So this is a fun situation, I can not access the control panel to log a trouble ticket and the host site is down so emails can't get through to them either.
On the plus side the owner of the company is a Calgunner and I have his cell number. ;)
As of right now the info I have is that it is a major cascade hardware failure and they are trying to determine how many things failed at the same time.
It's not just us or anything malicious that we're aware of and they are working on it as we speak.
tldr
So what you're saying is...it's time to rock n' roll, Calgunners mount up?!?! After yesterday, I'm not sure of our sharpshooting skills but I'm down anyway.
At least you weren't in the 'Two and Out Club'... ;)
Umm...yes I was...thanks for paying attention to me. :p
No way!
You were still shooting after I was done, I thought you had made it in to at least the third round.
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Mods late paying the bill:D...
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is randall banned from here
What's the Randall story?...
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Take a shot of whiskey for every minute Calguns is down. Go.
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Wiki and Drudge are down too.
Drudge just loaded
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is randall banned from here
What's the Randall story?...
some thread on the .net site it was a joke kinda is randall banned here?
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is randall banned from here
What's the Randall story?...
Nothing special, he'd gotten a bit snarky lately and then insulted another member and got a time out.
No big deal.
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Reborn! Lol, this site is weird, kind of like Mirror, Mirror.
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I wonder if hilary was scrubing the server again and her calguns account was one of them.
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Mods late paying the bill:D...
'cause you're not paying your dues sucka. Time to tax that az.
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Reborn! Lol, this site is weird, kind of like Mirror, Mirror.
Yup, everybody has a goatee here...
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Take a shot of whiskey for every minute Calguns is down. Go.
Oh, man...I was going to buy a bottle when I was at Walmart this afternoon. I was feeling the need to pop the cork and start taking shots in the store due to the unbelievable behavior of some of the people there.
I decided not to, but now I wish I would have. It was a premonition, I'm telling ya.
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whats the karma ?
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is randall banned from here
What's the Randall story?...
Nothing special, he'd gotten a bit snarky lately and then insulted another member and got a time out.
No big deal.
Well, I guess he really isn't missing much at this point. ;D
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is randall banned from here
What's the Randall story?...
Nothing special, he'd gotten a bit snarky lately and then insulted another member and got a time out.
No big deal.
So, he didn't do anything unusual or out of character? That's a relief. He is an asset to the forums even if he crosses the line once in a while.
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Yup, everybody has a goatee here...
And girlfriends :P
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its like a time machine is there good pre ban stuff here still for sale?
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bunch of doggone newbs in here 8)
routine lunchtime checking the forums and <poof>
jonesing for wts ads.. anything for sale in here? ;)
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whats the karma ?
Unno but ojisan has negative 21...must be a jerk. :shrug:
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bunch of doggone newbs in here 8)
routine lunchtime checking the forums and <poof>
jonesing for wts ads.. anything for sale in here? ;)
lbdamned posted 50% off costco hot dogs earlier
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Reborn! Lol, this site is weird, kind of like Mirror, Mirror.
Yup, everybody has a goatee here...
Heck, I always have a goatee. And a girlfriend (as my wife reads over my shoulder...)
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its like a time machine is there good pre ban stuff here still for sale?
More like a pachinko machine. Eventually, your balls fall out of the bottom.
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bunch of doggone newbs in here 8)
routine lunchtime checking the forums and <poof>
jonesing for wts ads.. anything for sale in here? ;)
lbdamned posted 50% off costco hot dogs earlier
dang it! my boys just went to Big Nicks to pickup lunch..
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Apparently it's not just the site, I can't get Geovario to load either.
Hey............He is still alive. I feared that maybe something happened to our home and our fearless leader.
It appears he was at the Dueling tree shoot and I didn't even recognize him. I also didn't see the famous truck. Maybe I was too focused on trying to knock as many people out of the game as possible. It must have been the camo (he had hair this time) and tan shirt and pants. I would have said hi.
At least I can get my calguns fix here!
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Apparently it's not just the site, I can't get Geovario to load either.
Hey............He is still alive. I feared that maybe something happened to our home and our fearless leader.
It appears he was at the Dueling tree shoot and I didn't even recognize him. I also didn't see the famous truck. Maybe I was too focused on trying to knock as many people out of the game as possible. It must have been the camo (he had hair this time) and tan shirt and pants. I would have said hi.
At least I can get my calguns fix here!
lol, I didn't recognize him at first with hair either!
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I'm this close [holds up thumb and forefinger] from posting a vid of Dueling Tree Massacre too. Agh! Hurry up and fix it before we find another forum [hides]
:D
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is randall banned from here
What's the Randall story?...
Nothing special, he'd gotten a bit snarky lately and then insulted another member and got a time out.
No big deal.
Randall snarky?... How unusual
*sarcasm
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question does this site ever go down?
I think that's a rather personal question and besides this is supposed to be a family-friendly forum.
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YEE HAW
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Neeeeeeeed Calguuunnnnnssssss
(http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-06/29/15/enhanced/webdr14/anigif_original-grid-image-4586-1435607375-6.gif)
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question does this site ever go down?
I think that's a rather personal question and besides this is supposed to be a family-friendly forum.
Only the good ones go down :P
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I'm just happy that .org is up. Don't know where else I could get my Calguns fix with .net down. The shakes were getting pretty bad.
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Looks like I'm part of the club now.
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whats the karma ?
Unno but ojisan has negative 21...must be a jerk. :shrug:
This was the Dark Side location for a while...we all have it in us.
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TFH. Nevadashooters.com is also mysteriously down.
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I need tin foil hat
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I see nobody was talking about CZ's back a few years in this forum.
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I see nobody was talking about CZ's back a few years in this forum.
And yet everybody claims to have been a diehard fan "before CZ's were cool". CG hipsters ???
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Interesting... ar500 server is down too..
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I see nobody was talking about CZ's back a few years in this forum.
And yet everybody claims to have been a diehard fan "before CZ's were cool". CG hipsters ???
they are purty though
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Come on guys, plug the server back in
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Yup....who walked the pooch past the server rack.
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It was a "Special Snowflake" that done did it
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Has anyone seen my stapler?
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Well, managed to get Rank 5 Iron Banner in Destiny with Calguns being down. Now have to work at 6am :-\
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it's a good time for me to call it a night.
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So Randall took out the entire Calguns site with a 6.5 Creedmore?
really????????
-T
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I take a break from fallout 4 and I get a down calguns!?
thanks reagan!
Geovario down? Hack job? Someone tripped over the cable?
Blaming Reagan is SOOOOO 1984. Blaming Shrub the Younger is still acceptable, however.
Carry on.
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Still not up however it's still being worked on, history has shown that the staff at GeoVario will keep on it until we're back up.
Once things are back up and running I should be able to get an idea of exactly what happened, what died and what had to be replaced.
I'm not pressing for details right now so as not to slow down the repairs but when I hear something I'll let you know.
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:( :'(
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It must be pretty serious. ProfessionaledgeLLC the Parent of Geovario I believe is down.
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It's 4:AM and CGN still down ... this a bad one :-\
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4:13 and still down......
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Well, what to do when you can't log onto Calguns at 0330?
Just made my cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner.
Now what the heck am I going to do?
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Went to sleep early because no .net, and now awake early. So joined here. Newb!
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Wow. Still down.
Not simply backhoe fade, then.
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Still down. I'm just glad that I was able to register here! FP I have some candy for you. :-*
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Damn. Still down. This has got to be a record. I can't recall more than a few hours of dead time in the past.
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Wow, .net is still down. I can't have breakfast without my Calguns!!!
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Down for me. :(
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It's got to be that damn Newsome. He just can't wait to mess with us!!
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This is worse than when I went cold turkey from crack....
Wait....
Ummmm.......
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This sucks on a phone.
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So when your car or truck breaks down and you have to take the BUS, this is what it feels like.
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Wow......still down......has to be bloomberg!
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Wow......still down......has to be bloomberg!
bigbird!
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It must be pretty serious. ProfessionaledgeLLC the Parent of Geovario I believe is down.
From:
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
Professional Edge / GeoVario Hosting, OFFLINE
Unfortunately as you are seeing this page, you have come during the time of the worst hardware failure in our company's history.
The website you are expecting, or the email account you were trying to reach went offline at roughly 4:45pm PST 11/23/2015; after we experienced a cascade hardware problem that affected our Storage Area Network disk arrays.
At this time, all static files, email accounts and most of our web and application servers are offline, database servers were not affected, but without application and web servers the content is not reachable - we are actively working to restore service, however between expiditing replacement parts and time to restore from backups we are expecting services to restore by roughly 6am PST, November 26th.
We are very aware this has been a huge problem for everyone, we apologize greatly and continue to work to restore service as quickly as possible.
Sincerely,
Professional Edge LLC
800-208-5510
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that sucks
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Wow still down. I guess I can keep myself busy. Fallout 4 or porn ?
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This is a bad one but we WILL be back up.
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Wow still down. I guess I can keep myself busy. Fallout 4 or porn ?
BACON!!
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down but not out
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The great Calguns reset of 2015!
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3 DAYS!!! >:( :o This suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
Wow, .net is still down. I can't have breakfast without my Calguns!!!
Hunger strike?
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This is like a government shutdown but worse.
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Ok, who's the douch who pulled the plug??? :(
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I bet they are waiting for Black Friday sales to pick up the new hardware at steep discount.
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<-------<<< And whats up with this karma crap? Inquireing minds need to know....
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Its like Facebook........but with a dislike........I think
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This is the big one
(http://img09.deviantart.net/9911/i/2013/106/5/2/maintenance_by_ithilis-d6207nj.jpg)
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the positive side the trolls can't find us
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I don't know if I can keep myself busy until the 26th!!!
I really do need a life!
:'(
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A few questions that I know nobody here can answer:
-Why did they not have redundant hardware in place? No self-respecting computer company doesn't have a plan (and spare hardware) in place to prevent a hardware failure from taking out company operations. "they are trying to expedite replacement parts"... in other words, they only had 1 of whatever broke.
-If the storage disk array is what blew up, and they are "working to restore from backups", does that mean we lose hours, days, weeks, or months of data?
-Which IT guy there is getting canned?
I fully understand that hardware failures happen, I've experienced lots of them myself... but anyone who halfway knows what they're doing, would never experience a catastrophic hardware failure like this. Redundant systems should be in place, where one a hardware bank goes offline, catches fire, or whatever, the system kicks itself over to the redundant hardware and operations continue. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many others never experience downtime, and I'm pretty sure it isn't because their hardware never fails.
Maybe time for CG to switch hosts?
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A few questions that I know nobody here can answer:
-Why did they not have redundant hardware in place? No self-respecting computer company doesn't have a plan (and spare hardware) in place to prevent a hardware failure from taking out company operations. "they are trying to expedite replacement parts"... in other words, they only had 1 of whatever broke.
-If the storage disk array is what blew up, and they are "working to restore from backups", does that mean we lose hours, days, weeks, or months of data?
-Which IT guy there is getting canned?
I fully understand that hardware failures happen, I've experienced lots of them myself... but anyone who halfway knows what they're doing, would never experience a catastrophic hardware failure like this. Redundant systems should be in place, where one a hardware bank goes offline, catches fire, or whatever, the system kicks itself over to the redundant hardware and operations continue. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many others never experience downtime, and I'm pretty sure it isn't because their hardware never fails.
Maybe time for CG to switch hosts?
"I find your logic disturbing." -Said the owners of the provider...
and (unrelated to to this particular situation) every leftist ever.
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wow, I thought it was only my computer misbehaving again.........
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I'm glad it's really down and not just me! I thought it might've gotten blocked or my IP been banned. That happened to me on another forum, someone was spamming and when the admin went to block the spammer they had a typo in the IP address and I got blocked instead.
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Oh my. WTH... I'm IN!
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A few questions that I know nobody here can answer:
-Why did they not have redundant hardware in place? No self-respecting computer company doesn't have a plan (and spare hardware) in place to prevent a hardware failure from taking out company operations. "they are trying to expedite replacement parts"... in other words, they only had 1 of whatever broke.
-If the storage disk array is what blew up, and they are "working to restore from backups", does that mean we lose hours, days, weeks, or months of data?
-Which IT guy there is getting canned?
I fully understand that hardware failures happen, I've experienced lots of them myself... but anyone who halfway knows what they're doing, would never experience a catastrophic hardware failure like this. Redundant systems should be in place, where one a hardware bank goes offline, catches fire, or whatever, the system kicks itself over to the redundant hardware and operations continue. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many others never experience downtime, and I'm pretty sure it isn't because their hardware never fails.
Maybe time for CG to switch hosts?
If its down for a few days I can imagine their customers losing a good chunk of change. How many lawsuits will follow?
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First, does anyone have an estimated time when .net will be back up?
Although I do not know just how it works, when I tried to do a DNS lookup on Calguns.net it could not return a numeric IP address. So it appears to me the the problem is more than just the servers that Calguns.net runs on and extends to DNS servers. Anyone know more?
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three days
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I bet they are waiting for Black Friday sales to pick up the new hardware at steep discount.
Newegg FTW! ;D
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First, does anyone have an estimated time when .net will be back up?
Post 134 in this thread: ... we are expecting services to restore by roughly 6am PST, November 26th.
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I just checked ODOT (Oregon Dept of Transportation) and the site is down. My mom lives in Bend and I was thinking about going up there, I can check road conditions in real time. This outage may being affecting .gov sites and that would not be good...
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So with the main site down does that mean we should get out and go shooting? Or maybe just go outside? :o
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Frys?!?! :-\
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So its true?
I was smacking my router around, thinking it was a local issue. Then I thought to try some other sites.
Yes, I do this all day at work so my troubleshooting skills should be better, but I am getting older and forgetful. :P
LoL Me too
rebooted modem ,router released IP , checked settings , ran virus scan..
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did obamacare sign ups start yesterday
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So with the main site down does that mean we should get out and go shooting? Or maybe just go outside? :o
Hitting the range tonight for the regular CG Santa Clara monthly meet up. 6 PM. If you're local c'mon down. If you're not local, c'mon down!
:)
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First, does anyone have an estimated time when .net will be back up?
TWO WEEKS!!!
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<snip
-If the storage disk array is what blew up, and they are "working to restore from backups", does that mean we lose hours, days, weeks, or months of data?
<snip>
no worries, NSA has a copy of everything.. maybe they'll share?
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I'm with you. Problems and their consequences are often not entirely avoidable. But you can mitigate outages by preparing (and spending money) for outages.
Assuming they're using a SAN from a vendor like NetApp, IBM, EMC, or Hitachi, they should have a support contract. FFS, when just a disk dies on one of my SANs, the vendor is willing to send a warm body to swap the SOB. And a good support contract also means parts are on the way before you even have to ask. If it really hit the fan, there would be a team of people driving gear to one of my facilities, pulling it out of labs at their corporate HQ, or otherwise doing whatever they had to for a return to service.
With the nature of the outage (customer data, but also their DNS servers appear to be offline, and thus no mailhost/MX records), it looks like they stored everything on the SAN (bad move #1), had no secondary site (bad move #2), have no disaster recovery (DR) plan (stupid stupid move #1), and basically put zero thought into recovering from a worst-case scenario.
I'd still put $5 on "everything lives in virtual machines and every virtual machine lives on one SAN". Derp.
A few questions that I know nobody here can answer:
-Why did they not have redundant hardware in place? No self-respecting computer company doesn't have a plan (and spare hardware) in place to prevent a hardware failure from taking out company operations. "they are trying to expedite replacement parts"... in other words, they only had 1 of whatever broke.
-If the storage disk array is what blew up, and they are "working to restore from backups", does that mean we lose hours, days, weeks, or months of data?
-Which IT guy there is getting canned?
I fully understand that hardware failures happen, I've experienced lots of them myself... but anyone who halfway knows what they're doing, would never experience a catastrophic hardware failure like this. Redundant systems should be in place, where one a hardware bank goes offline, catches fire, or whatever, the system kicks itself over to the redundant hardware and operations continue. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many others never experience downtime, and I'm pretty sure it isn't because their hardware never fails.
Maybe time for CG to switch hosts?
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Wow, Nov 26, that is pretty bad hardware failure .
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It was all the micro aggression in Randall banned thread...I know it.
And I didn't even get to see it...
I got a couple text messages about it while sitting on the beach in mexico (thank you sprint for free coverage in mexico now) and I responded back to my guys to go ahead and take the site down since I didn't need it for a few days.
I should have asked them to screen grab that thread and text it to me before they did...
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and already five posts! Post whore ;D
You newbies don't know what post whoring is...
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is randall banned from here
Not yet, but I can try!
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So Mexico is your alibi on the seerver going down? Good one!
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is randall banned from here
Not yet, but I can try! whats up man
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So Mexico is your alibi on the seerver going down? Good one!
No, I think he said being banned was the reason he ordered the site "taken down". The Mexico part is just puffing.
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It was all the micro aggression in Randall banned thread...I know it.
And I didn't even get to see it...
I got a couple text messages about it while sitting on the beach in mexico (thank you sprint for free coverage in mexico now) and I responded back to my guys to go ahead and take the site down since I didn't need it for a few days.
I should have asked them to screen grab that thread and text it to me before they did...
I knew it! Well...might as well come clean before you see it...I was advocating in favor of the ban (more or less)...catching a lot of flack...you're a popular guy, why (?), who knows... :D :P
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Wonder if Melvino is behind this. His computer was always malfunctioning, my friend.
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I'm with you. Problems and their consequences are often not entirely avoidable. But you can mitigate outages by preparing (and spending money) for outages.
Assuming they're using a SAN from a vendor like NetApp, IBM, EMC, or Hitachi, they should have a support contract. FFS, when just a disk dies on one of my SANs, the vendor is willing to send a warm body to swap the SOB. And a good support contract also means parts are on the way before you even have to ask. If it really hit the fan, there would be a team of people driving gear to one of my facilities, pulling it out of labs at their corporate HQ, or otherwise doing whatever they had to for a return to service.
With the nature of the outage (customer data, but also their DNS servers appear to be offline, and thus no mailhost/MX records), it looks like they stored everything on the SAN (bad move #1), had no secondary site (bad move #2), have no disaster recovery (DR) plan (stupid stupid move #1), and basically put zero thought into recovering from a worst-case scenario.
I'd still put $5 on "everything lives in virtual machines and every virtual machine lives on one SAN". Derp.
I'd agree that nearly everything is probably running from VM and shared storage. But they alluded to a cascade hardware failure and also having to do restores. It could be their chassis cooling failed, causing several disks to die off - more than the RAID level they use could tolerate, necessitating a complete restore after they get equipment spares. It could have been the data center cooling too. I'm just spitballing based on the limited info we have. If it was just a SAN switch, a restore would not be required.
I am a believer in your own DNS being hosted by a 3rd party. At least that way when things go tango uniform in your data center, you can quickly point A records at a backup site to at least give clients status updates. This is a lot faster than updating your DNS servers at the registrar and waiting for propagation, just to give status updates or receive mail. It also allows you to have a lower priority MX record always published and pointing at a backup store & forward mail service, to be used when you have problems like this.
They should also revive their twitter account, it is a great way to give status updates.
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First, does anyone have an estimated time when .net will be back up?
Post 134 in this thread: ... we are expecting services to restore by roughly 6am PST, November 26th.
Dang - seems so far off.
The Great-Great CGN outage of 2015.
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I have some new information, and it's pretty much a case of a series of unfortunate events.
A little background; data is stored on mirrored disks which are then mirrored to another pair which in turn are mirrored to another pair and so on. In addition there are several backup disks which come in to play should one of the main disks fail.
And boy did it fail.
Apparently disc 2 of the primary pair failed so the server called up backup drive A and started rebuilding the mirror with drive 1 and drive A.
At the completion of the rebuild drive 1 failed. Drive A, now the primary drive of the primary pair, called up backup drive B and started rebuilding the mirror.
Midway through the second rebuild drive A failed taking out the primary mirrored pair.
Somewhere in this process one of the controller boards died as well.
Some of you may be wondering why there was no alert of a predictive failure, good question.
Apparently the data center failed to do a firmware update some time back that would have sent the predictive failure alert for all three drive so there was no notice given until things started dying.
FedEx should be delivering the new hardware as I am typing this if they haven't already and it will all be installed as quickly as possible.
The real delay comes from restoring the terabytes of data from tape which takes hours and hours.
As I said, a series of unfortunate events but they are working on it as quickly as they can.
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It could be their chassis cooling failed, causing several disks to die off - more than the RAID level they use could tolerate, necessitating a complete restore after they get equipment spares. It could have been the data center cooling too. I'm just spitballing based on the limited info we have.
I think you hit it on the head with the data center/chasis cooling issue.
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Thanks for the update
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Wow!!
The system didn't just crash, it went all China syndrome. That's unfortunate.
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We burnt it to the ground.
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I'm guessing some over there are sweating bullets and lots of cursing and swearing. Can't they just slap the end of the rack a few times?? Mallet sometimes works too.
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Hmmm... Interesting that we cannot resolve www.calguns.net via DNS anymore. Even if the primary DNS servers, SOA for calguns.net were afflicted by the hardware failure, I would have expected DNS look up to be cached atleast for 3 days ( refresh of DNS record is 3 hours I think) by down stream DNS servers?! Please correct me if I am wrong on this assumption .. :)
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Who's missing their red stapler?
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Does this mean my post count will be lower over at .net:eek:?....
NOOOO
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... restoring the terabytes of data from tape which takes hours and hours....
How many hours of data loss will there be after the restore? Just wondering which threads will need to re-updated / recreated.
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Sorry to hear that Kest,
Might be looking at different choices for the future, so I would just mention this.
Primary disks (active) (mirrored fine)
Second set of disks with full software load and blank database (located in skeleton secondary running somewhere else home...different provider.)
Backup schedule Monday (to onsite backup location or second pair of disks), Tuesday ( Main active to backing up to online storage or to your home second set of backup disks backing up online), Wednesday (Both), Thursday, Friday, Saturday repeat, Sunday who cares as nobody worthy posts that day anyway :)
If Hosting goes down and not able to logon or respond, I get it. No ability to re-route DNS info so that needs a fix), because as I understand you to be a techie, if you could have re-routed, you likely had a second location with a temporary solution....ie .org server/database.
You got hosed and anyone in tech has been there. I'm sorry it happened. But there's little to no reason that you should have not had the hosting company provide access to the edge server at minimum to change DNS direction. Good luck and oh I'd like to offer up Stilly to help out......
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... restoring the terabytes of data from tape which takes hours and hours....
How many hours of data loss will there be after the restore? Just wondering which threads will need to re-updated / recreated.
Many modern Data Centers don't use tape anymore, but back up to disk as well.
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It could be their chassis cooling failed, causing several disks to die off - more than the RAID level they use could tolerate, necessitating a complete restore after they get equipment spares. It could have been the data center cooling too. I'm just spitballing based on the limited info we have.
I think you hit it on the head with the data center/chasis cooling issue.
I agree, thermal agitation causing the Shod effect in high gain. :P
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sounds like i might actually have to hang out with relatives this thanksgiving :p
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Damn that is crazy.... Thanks Obama.
I am just watching Cops now, i was owning some noobs in fallout 4. I have calgunners texting me all day asking what happen lol
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Thanks for the update, Kes!
I have some new information, and it's pretty much a case of a series of unfortunate events.
A little background; data is stored on mirrored disks which are then mirrored to another pair which in turn are mirrored to another pair and so on. In addition there are several backup disks which come in to play should one of the main disks fail.
And boy did it fail.
Apparently disc 2 of the primary pair failed so the server called up backup drive A and started rebuilding the mirror with drive 1 and drive A.
At the completion of the rebuild drive 1 failed. Drive A, now the primary drive of the primary pair, called up backup drive B and started rebuilding the mirror.
Midway through the second rebuild drive A failed taking out the primary mirrored pair.
Somewhere in this process one of the controller boards died as well.
Some of you may be wondering why there was no alert of a predictive failure, good question.
Apparently the data center failed to do a firmware update some time back that would have sent the predictive failure alert for all three drive so there was no notice given until things started dying.
FedEx should be delivering the new hardware as I am typing this if they haven't already and it will all be installed as quickly as possible.
The real delay comes from restoring the terabytes of data from tape which takes hours and hours.
As I said, a series of unfortunate events but they are working on it as quickly as they can.
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IT derp here......I feel for you bro...(Shedding tears now)...
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NA
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Thanks for the update, Kes!
I have some new information, and it's pretty much a case of a series of unfortunate events.
A little background; data is stored on mirrored disks which are then mirrored to another pair which in turn are mirrored to another pair and so on. In addition there are several backup disks which come in to play should one of the main disks fail.
And boy did it fail.
Apparently disc 2 of the primary pair failed so the server called up backup drive A and started rebuilding the mirror with drive 1 and drive A.
At the completion of the rebuild drive 1 failed. Drive A, now the primary drive of the primary pair, called up backup drive B and started rebuilding the mirror.
Midway through the second rebuild drive A failed taking out the primary mirrored pair.
Somewhere in this process one of the controller boards died as well.
Some of you may be wondering why there was no alert of a predictive failure, good question.
Apparently the data center failed to do a firmware update some time back that would have sent the predictive failure alert for all three drive so there was no notice given until things started dying.
FedEx should be delivering the new hardware as I am typing this if they haven't already and it will all be installed as quickly as possible.
The real delay comes from restoring the terabytes of data from tape which takes hours and hours.
As I said, a series of unfortunate events but they are working on it as quickly as they can.
Firmware being upgrade for alerts to be sent sounds odd. Why didn't they implement monitoring scripts that sends alerts when a drive drops from the raid? Seems they are making bs excuses to what happened. I bet a drive dropped from the raid it never got replace, and now that two drives from the array died the whole system went poof!
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OK, who will be the first to come up with a really good conspiracy theory as to why .net is down?
- Pelosi
- Øbama
- chemtrails
- .45 > 9mm
- fluoride
- mandatory vaccination
- Harry Tanges
- Moms Demand Don't Stop
- bacon
It was Senator Leland Yee!!! He took Calguns down as revenge for them not coming to his aid regarding his second amendment rights to buy and sell firearms in California
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OK, who will be the first to come up with a really good conspiracy theory as to why .net is down?
- Pelosi
- Øbama
- chemtrails
- .45 > 9mm
- fluoride
- mandatory vaccination
- Harry Tanges
- Moms Demand Don't Stop
- bacon
It was Senator Leland Yee!!! He took Calguns down as revenge for them not coming to his aid regarding his second amendment rights to buy and sell firearms in California
Nawww........it was Hillary......she has experience with data loss and taking servers out of service. Add that to her recent anti 2A statements, and there ya go! ;D
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Who's missing their red stapler?
I have 2. :)
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Firmware being upgrade for alerts to be sent sounds odd. Why didn't they implement monitoring scripts that sends alerts when a drive drops from the raid? Seems they are making bs excuses to what happened. I bet a drive dropped from the raid it never got replace, and now that two drives from the array died the whole system went poof!
That was my thought too, it doesn't sound like an unfortunate series of coincidences, it sounds like they weren't diligent and are now paying the price. Coming up with excuses that are extremely unlikely, but we can't prove it didn't happen, to try to save face and not sound incompetent. Did they not realize that their system was incapable of warning them that a drive failure was detected? Does that mean that, until now, they've never head a drive failure? Heck, my server at work only has 4 disks, and I have to replace a dead one at least once every 2 years. And guess what, I even get an email when one goes bad 8)
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Just checking in to this historic event, we will always remember.
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Firmware being upgrade for alerts to be sent sounds odd. Why didn't they implement monitoring scripts that sends alerts when a drive drops from the raid? Seems they are making bs excuses to what happened. I bet a drive dropped from the raid it never got replace, and now that two drives from the array died the whole system went poof!
That was my thought too, it doesn't sound like an unfortunate series of coincidences, it sounds like they weren't diligent and are now paying the price. Coming up with excuses that are extremely unlikely, but we can't prove it didn't happen, to try to save face and not sound incompetent. Did they not realize that their system was incapable of warning them that a drive failure was detected? Does that mean that, until now, they've never head a drive failure? Heck, my server at work only has 4 disks, and I have to replace a dead one at least once every 2 years. And guess what, I even get an email when one goes bad 8)
I've known Michael the owner of PE/GV for over a decade, he has at one point donated two years of hosting free back when Calguns was small and needed time to grow. He's been a Calgunner for most of the time Calguns has existed and has helped dozens of Calgunners and 2A orgs get web stores and sites off the ground.
Nobody has to come up with excuses, for over ten years I've gotten straight answers whenever I've had a problem.
I don't care how unlikely it is I don't need them to prove jack squat because I've never been given a reason to mistrust Michael or PE/GV.
I have been given many reasons to trust them over the last decade so when I get a call from my friend and owner of the hosting company to tell me 'This is what happened' I believe him that that is what happened.
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IN. Don't want to miss the chance of being involved in a piece of history.
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hahaha, just read the comments on Facebook, maybe we should sick Randall on them idi... umm, fine gentlemen. :D
The temp. Calguns.org page is such a joke in the market place. Nothing but BS threads being posted!!! Nothing is being taken serious and needs to regulated seriously with a moderator if that's going to be up and running until this gets situated!!!
Here's another:
So, either the forum goes down so much that you need a backup, or the creators of the forum are so arrogant that they feel like no one can survive without their forums. Which one is it?
Hi Haters!
(http://www.heyreverb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/4/files/2011/04/BangsArticle.jpg)
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Hmmm... Interesting that we cannot resolve www.calguns.net via DNS anymore. Even if the primary DNS servers, SOA for calguns.net were afflicted by the hardware failure, I would have expected DNS look up to be cached atleast for 3 days ( refresh of DNS record is 3 hours I think) by down stream DNS servers?! Please correct me if I am wrong on this assumption .. :)
Calguns DNS is hosted at the provider who is down. DNS records are cached according to a TTL value that is provided with each record. However some recursive DNS servers (like your ISP provides) ignore these values and cache according to their own timers. In any case, the provider itself (ProfEdge) also hosts its own DNS. So lookups cannot be done, because recursive DNS servers (like the Google 8.8.8.8 server for example) can't even reach PROFEDGE to get IPs for their DNS servers, to then query them for CALGUNS hostnames.
But it doesn't much matter, because the info we have about the failure says that even if we could resolve an IP for host www.calguns.net, the web application server which front ends the database is down.
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Nobody has to come up with excuses, for over ten years I've gotten straight answers whenever I've had a problem.
I don't care how unlikely it is I don't need them to prove jack squat because I've never been given a reason to mistrust Michael or PE/GV.
I agree - sometimes s*it just happens. It sucks when it does, but I don't care if you are big or small, this kind of thing can bite anybody. Now everyone go clean some guns or turkeys, maybe put some lead downrange, and let the geeks do what they do to get the train back on the rails.
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hahaha, just read the comments on Facebook, maybe we should sick Randall on them idi... umm, fine gentlemen. :D
The temp. Calguns.org page is such a joke in the market place. Nothing but BS threads being posted!!! Nothing is being taken serious and needs to regulated seriously with a moderator if that's going to be up and running until this gets situated!!!
Here's another:
So, either the forum goes down so much that you need a backup, or the creators of the forum are so arrogant that they feel like no one can survive without their forums. Which one is it?
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I'll admit, im in CGN withdrawal - LOL - but those ^^^ fellas are literally dying. ;D I can't help but laugh at their misfortune and realize I should just check back in 36 hours.
If it's down, it's down. I'm sure the powers that be are working hard to get a fix. NBD. :shrug:
Some of those posts though...
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Thanks for the update. To cockedandglocked and kapache, This failure is not a typical situation IMO. In addition, I would bet that Calguns along with it's hosting services don't have the resources that Google, Microsoft, and other huge datacenters have. It's very unfortunate that this type of failure happened to what it sounds like more than 4 Hardrives at once or (four mirrors). If Kestryll wants to start a fundraiser to support more hardware for more redundancy, I certainly don't mind contributing. :)
Firmware being upgrade for alerts to be sent sounds odd. Why didn't they implement monitoring scripts that sends alerts when a drive drops from the raid? Seems they are making bs excuses to what happened. I bet a drive dropped from the raid it never got replace, and now that two drives from the array died the whole system went poof!
That was my thought too, it doesn't sound like an unfortunate series of coincidences, it sounds like they weren't diligent and are now paying the price. Coming up with excuses that are extremely unlikely, but we can't prove it didn't happen, to try to save face and not sound incompetent. Did they not realize that their system was incapable of warning them that a drive failure was detected? Does that mean that, until now, they've never head a drive failure? Heck, my server at work only has 4 disks, and I have to replace a dead one at least once every 2 years. And guess what, I even get an email when one goes bad 8)
I've known Michael the owner of PE/GV for over a decade, he has at one point donated two years of hosting free back when Calguns was small and needed time to grow. He's been a Calgunner for most of the time Calguns has existed and has helped dozens of Calgunners and 2A orgs get web stores and sites off the ground.
Nobody has to come up with excuses, for over ten years I've gotten straight answers whenever I've had a problem.
I don't care how unlikely it is I don't need them to prove jack squat because I've never been given a reason to mistrust Michael or PE/GV.
I have been given many reasons to trust them over the last decade so when I get a call from my friend and owner of the hosting company to tell me 'This is what happened' I believe him that that is what happened.
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This is CG Purgatory. All of you XD fanboys just need to give me your guns and go buy Glocks, then maybe.. just maybe all will be right in the world by this weekend.
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So this is a fun situation, I can not access the control panel to log a trouble ticket and the host site is down so emails can't get through to them either.
On the plus side the owner of the company is a Calgunner and I have his cell number. ;)
As of right now the info I have is that it is a major cascade hardware failure and they are trying to determine how many things failed at the same time.
It's not just us or anything malicious that we're aware of and they are working on it as we speak.
Sounds like someone put BOTH ends of a ethernet cable into the same switch!!
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Thanks for the update. To cockedandglocked and kapache, This failure is not a typical situation IMO. In addition, I would bet that Calguns along with it's hosting services don't have the resources that Google, Microsoft, and other huge datacenters have. It's very unfortunate that this type of failure happened to what it sounds like more than 4 Hardrives at once or (four mirrors). If Kestryll wants to start a fundraiser to support more hardware for more redundancy, I certainly don't mind contributing. :)
I understand, but I'm just curious what's wrong with using a giant company like, say, GoDaddy to host CG? I know this guy is Kes's friend and a longtime supporter of CG, but sometimes business is business.
I may really love an ammo company, and the owner might be a really good friend, honest, and always been there for me for year and years, but when one of his cartridges blows up my rifle and I lose 2 fingers, I'll probably go find a new company. Just sayin'.
Not that I'm comparing CG being down for a couple days to losing an appendage (though for some I'm sure it seems just as bad or worse) ;D
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A few questions that I know nobody here can answer:
-Why did they not have redundant hardware in place? No self-respecting computer company doesn't have a plan (and spare hardware) in place to prevent a hardware failure from taking out company operations. "they are trying to expedite replacement parts"... in other words, they only had 1 of whatever broke.
-If the storage disk array is what blew up, and they are "working to restore from backups", does that mean we lose hours, days, weeks, or months of data?
-Which IT guy there is getting canned?
I fully understand that hardware failures happen, I've experienced lots of them myself... but anyone who halfway knows what they're doing, would never experience a catastrophic hardware failure like this. Redundant systems should be in place, where one a hardware bank goes offline, catches fire, or whatever, the system kicks itself over to the redundant hardware and operations continue. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many others never experience downtime, and I'm pretty sure it isn't because their hardware never fails.
Maybe time for CG to switch hosts?
Computer Engineer here, I agree 100%!
They are more than likely running Calguns.net on a virtual machine (on a hardware server with other clients virtuals) in a datacenter.
They should have had all the virtual machines on another set of "hardware machines" in a DIFFERENT data center on the East Coast so that the other "cluster" takes over if ANYTHING fails!
FOR PETE SAKE, THIS IS CALGUNS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT!! : )
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A few questions that I know nobody here can answer:
-Why did they not have redundant hardware in place? No self-respecting computer company doesn't have a plan (and spare hardware) in place to prevent a hardware failure from taking out company operations. "they are trying to expedite replacement parts"... in other words, they only had 1 of whatever broke.
-If the storage disk array is what blew up, and they are "working to restore from backups", does that mean we lose hours, days, weeks, or months of data?
-Which IT guy there is getting canned?
I fully understand that hardware failures happen, I've experienced lots of them myself... but anyone who halfway knows what they're doing, would never experience a catastrophic hardware failure like this. Redundant systems should be in place, where one a hardware bank goes offline, catches fire, or whatever, the system kicks itself over to the redundant hardware and operations continue. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many others never experience downtime, and I'm pretty sure it isn't because their hardware never fails.
Maybe time for CG to switch hosts?
Computer Engineer here, I agree 100%!
They are more than likely running Calguns.net on a virtual machine (on a hardware server with other clients virtuals) in a datacenter.
They should have had all the virtual machines on another set of "hardware machines" in a DIFFERENT data center on the East Coast so that the other "cluster" takes over if ANYTHING fails!
FOR PETE SAKE, THIS IS CALGUNS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT!! : )
Technically you're correct. But how much more money does it take to support that 24/7 365 days a year?
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Don't know, but this is Calguns we are talking about!
Seriously though, meno377, why don't you go to Amazon EC2 and check prices if you are that concerned about price.
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Technically you're correct. But how much more money does it take to support that 24/7 365 days a year?
I have no idea how much CG pays for their hosting now, nor what their bandwidth requirements are, but GoDaddy offers a dedicated hardware server for $209/mo, plus $4.99/mo for daily automatic backups:
32 GB RAM
Storage: 2 TB
Bandwidth: 20 TB/mo
Cheaper plans are available if the requirements are less.
https://www.godaddy.com/servers (https://www.godaddy.com/servers)
I'm sure there are many similar options out there from other company's as well, that's just the first one that came to mind.
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Thanks for the update. To cockedandglocked and kapache, This failure is not a typical situation IMO. In addition, I would bet that Calguns along with it's hosting services don't have the resources that Google, Microsoft, and other huge datacenters have. It's very unfortunate that this type of failure happened to what it sounds like more than 4 Hardrives at once or (four mirrors). If Kestryll wants to start a fundraiser to support more hardware for more redundancy, I certainly don't mind contributing. :)
I understand, but I'm just curious what's wrong with using a giant company like, say, GoDaddy to host CG? I know this guy is Kes's friend and a longtime supporter of CG, but sometimes business is business.
I may really love an ammo company, and the owner might be a really good friend, honest, and always been there for me for year and years, but when one of his cartridges blows up my rifle and I lose 2 fingers, I'll probably go find a new company. Just sayin'.
Not that I'm comparing CG being down for a couple days to losing an appendage (though for some I'm sure it seems just as bad or worse) ;D
Much worse than losing two digits ... >:(
;)
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Perhaps its all a PM problem? Not swapping out drives at the end of their useful lives? I know 1 thing, all the drives being replaced now will fail at roughly the same time in the future. They should be replaced before they "get an e mail from the server" in some sort of staggered way.
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my friends..............don't worry, it will all be okay :)
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Don't know, but this is Calguns we are talking about!
Seriously though, meno377, why don't you go to Amazon EC2 and check prices if you are that concerned about price.
That's my point. Calguns probably doesn't have the extra funds for a dedicated server with redundancy.
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I was lurking here yesterday and now I'm back. Maybe it's an attack by Procol Harum or Ralph Queida...?
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Don't know, but this is Calguns we are talking about!
Seriously though, meno377, why don't you go to Amazon EC2 and check prices if you are that concerned about price.
That's my point. Calguns probably doesn't have the extra funds for a dedicated server with redundancy.
my friends, everyone knows that kestryll is independently wealthy, don't be a hater
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I was lurking here yesterday and now I'm back. Maybe it's an attack by Procol Harum or Ralph Queida...?
My Friend, you sound muslimphobic. Don't hate the peaceful ones :)
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Gawd, if I hear that one more time I'm going postal. As we said in the 70s, "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out." And, I'm not afraid of them.
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Folks:
To all the armchair IT gurus, Kestryll and the hosting provider don't have much experience in this field and can really use your help. Please put all of your suggestions in writing on the back of $100 bills. If one bill is not enough for your ideas, please use multiple bills and mail them all to him for review, evaluation, and consideration.
Until then, put the smartphone/tablet/laptop down, go outside your mom's basement, enjoy a breath of fresh air, clean your guns, go out for a walk, maybe go out to the range...
You get the idea...
:o
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Gawd, if I hear that one more time I'm going postal. As we said in the 70s, "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out." And, I'm not afraid of them.
My friend, you sound violent................should you own guns my friend?
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Folks:
To all the armchair IT gurus, Kestryll and the hosting provider don't have much experience in this field and can really use your help. Please put all of your suggestions in writing on the back of $100 bills. If one bill is not enough for your ideas, please use multiple bills and mail them all to him for review, evaluation, and consideration.
Until then, put the smartphone/tablet/laptop down, go outside your mom's basement, enjoy a breath of fresh air, clean your guns, go out for a walk, maybe go out to the range...
You get the idea...
:o
My friend, you sound rich....................can we be friends?
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Gawd, if I hear that one more time I'm going postal. As we said in the 70s, "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out." And, I'm not afraid of them.
My friend, you sound violent................should you own guns my friend?
Are you from the planet Weenie or what?
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geez... missed a day from this thread and - a bunch of stuff to weed through for meaningful update...
a locked thread with periodic updates would be helpful ;)
In the mean time, I get it - down for a couple days... I'm pretty sure I was one of the first ones to say: seems like this might be a long one :(
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Gawd, if I hear that one more time I'm going postal. As we said in the 70s, "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out." And, I'm not afraid of them.
My friend, you sound violent................should you own guns my friend?
Are you from the planet Weenie or what?
My friend, what does that mean?
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Kindly go back under your bridge. How do you say Adios in troll?
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My friend, why so hostile? :(
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Melvino!!!
How are you my friend?
Looks like you are getting along well with the natives. ;)
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Melvino!!!
How are you my friend?
Looks like you are getting along well with the natives. ;)
Thank you my friend. So many newbies that are not so friendly Cheers my friend, Cheers!
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Melvino!!!
How are you my friend?
Looks like you are getting along well with the natives. ;)
Thank you my friend. So many newbies that are not so friendly Cheers my friend, Cheers!
Cheers to you as well good sir.
I've missed your positive attitude on the other site.
Don't let them bring you down my friend.
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OK, who will be the first to come up with a really good conspiracy theory as to why .net is down?
- Pelosi
- Øbama
- chemtrails
- .45 > 9mm
- fluoride
- mandatory vaccination
- Harry Tanges
- Moms Demand Don't Stop
- bacon
It was Senator Leland Yee!!! He took Calguns down as revenge for them not coming to his aid regarding his second amendment rights to buy and sell firearms in California
I think it was Jim Mitchell, the owner of Oaktree. ;)
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It sounds as if Quakers are invading. Quick, call ICE.
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Oh Lordy, please be up and running before Thanksgiving, please, please, please..... :o
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Folks:
To all the armchair IT gurus, Kestryll and the hosting provider don't have much experience in this field and can really use your help. Please put all of your suggestions in writing on the back of $100 bills. If one bill is not enough for your ideas, please use multiple bills and mail them all to him for review, evaluation, and consideration.
Until then, put the smartphone/tablet/laptop down, go outside your mom's basement, enjoy a breath of fresh air, clean your guns, go out for a walk, maybe go out to the range...
You get the idea...
:o
Its so complicated no one can understand.....
https://youtu.be/MRgUgHUSVtI
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Checking in so I can say I was a part of the great disaster of 2015.
I was negotiating two deals in the marketplace. Getting antsy in my pantsies.
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Melvino!!!
How are you my friend?
Looks like you are getting along well with the natives. ;)
Thank you my friend. So many newbies that are not so friendly Cheers my friend, Cheers!
Your "friendliness" reeks of insincerity.
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Sorry my friend. I just want to be friendly. How can I seem more sincere my friend?
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OMG! I heard of the legend of Melvino. Welcome back, uh, my friend!
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Sorry my friend. I just want to be friendly. How can I seem more sincere my friend?
$300 should do it. Cashier's check or money order.
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I'm just here to ease the withdrawal symptoms and get my "fix" LOL
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Checking in so I can say I was a part of the great disaster of 2015.
I was negotiating two deals in the marketplace. Getting antsy in my pantsies.
seller and I met by pm and got to close the deal via text just in time.. meeting Friday for ppt :D
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Checking in so I can say I was a part of the great disaster of 2015.
Yep - I was all set to update my "Keep it classy, Oakland (Raiders)" thread, since Ray-Ray got released-released today (Raiders fans oughta be used to that - think of it as, "parole" ;D ), and sure enough - the news through the WHOLE board outta whack! :o
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Checking in so I can say I was a part of the great disaster of 2015.
Yep - I was all set to update my "Keep it classy, Oakland (Raiders)" thread, since Ray-Ray got released-released today (Raiders fans oughta be used to that - think of it as, "parole" ;D ), and sure enough - the news through the WHOLE board outta whack! :o
That's what happens when you post a Raiders thread... :o
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I am here as I started withdrawls a bit ago.
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Technically you're correct. But how much more money does it take to support that 24/7 365 days a year?
I have no idea how much CG pays for their hosting now, nor what their bandwidth requirements are, but GoDaddy offers a dedicated hardware server for $209/mo, plus $4.99/mo for daily automatic backups:
32 GB RAM
Storage: 2 TB
Bandwidth: 20 TB/mo
Cheaper plans are available if the requirements are less.
https://www.godaddy.com/servers (https://www.godaddy.com/servers)
I'm sure there are many similar options out there from other company's as well, that's just the first one that came to mind.
2TB and 20TB/Month?
That's not even close to what's needed for Calguns.
Remember, there are a LOT of attachments, and the bandwidth for 10,000 users.
That Godaddy server with Calguns on it would run worse than CalCCW
I manage 7 recording servers with 24TB each (Raid6) at my traffic management center.
And I just sent Kest three $100 bills, but forgot to write my recommendation on them :D
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20TB divided by 1 million monthly website visits (http://www.trafficestimate.com/calguns.net (http://www.trafficestimate.com/calguns.net)) is 20MB of available bandwidth per visit. I don't think that that would be exceeded, since the bulk of the images (avatars) are cached locally on our machines after the first download. I'm not sure how many photos are in their database, but if each one is 200KB, that's enough space for 10 million photos. The database of posts and PM's is likely <20GB, but even if I'm underestimating that by 1000%, it's still only 10% of the total available storage. All the text of Wikipedia is only 12GB, so I think my estimate of 20GB of posts in calguns if probably not an underestimate.
The above is pure speculation of course, but I don't think I'm that far off.
Also, I'm not necessarily recommending GoDaddy specifically, I was just giving the first example that popped into my head. I'm sure there are thousands of better options out there for similar pricing.
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while i dont post must i do like to read the and i now that its down i can see how much i am addicted to the site.
fyi godaddy sucks.
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I'm a noob :o
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OK ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! PUT THE DANG HAMSTERS BACK IN THE WHEEL!!! RIGHT MEOOOOW!!!!!
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This should help lighten the mood:
Jacques Chirac, The French Prime Minister, was sitting in his office wondering what kind of mischief he could perpetrate against the United States when his telephone rang.
"Hallo, Mr. Chirac!", a heavily accented voice said. "This is Paddy down at the Harp Pub in County Sligo, Ireland.
I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!"
"Well, Paddy," Chirac replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"
"Right now," said Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is myself, me cousin Sean,
me next door neighbor Seamus, and the entire dart team from the pub. That makes eight!"
Chirac paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have one hundred thousand men in my army waiting to move on my command."
"Begorra!" said Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back!"
Sure enough, the next day, Paddy called again. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be, Paddy?" Chirac asked. "Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's farm tractor."
Chirac sighed, amused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armored personnel carriers.
Also, I've increased my army to one hundred fifty thousand since we last spoke."
"Saints preserve us!" said Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you."
Sure enough, Paddy rang again the next day. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on!" We have managed to get ourselves airborne!
We've modified Jackie McLaughlin's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Pub have joined us as well!"
Chirac was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes.
My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites.
And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to two hundred thousand!"
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!", said Paddy, "I'll have to ring you back."
Sure enough, Paddy called again the next day. "Top o' the mornin', Mr. Chirac! I am sorry to tell you that we have had to call off the war."
"I'm sorry to hear that," said Chirac. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well," said Paddy, "we've all had a long chat over a bunch of pints, and decided there's no foo-kin way we can feed two hundred thousand prisoners.
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Doc, says Steve, I want to be castrated.
What on earth for? asks the doctor in amazement.
It's something I've been thinking about for a long time and I want to have it done replies Steve.
But have you thought it through properly? asks the doctor, It's a very serious operation and once it's done, there's no going back.
It will change your life forever!
I'm aware of that and you're not going to change my mind -- either you book me in to be castrated or I'll simply go to another doctor.
Well, OK. says the doctor, But it's against my better judgment!
So Steve has his operation, and the next day he is up and walking very slowly, legs apart, down the hospital corridor with his drip stand.
Heading towards him is another patient, who is walking exactly the same way.
Hi there, says Steve, It looks as if you've just had the same operation as me.
Well, said the patient, I finally decided after 37 years of life that I would like to be circumcised.
Steve stared at him in horror and screamed, "DAMN! THAT'S the word!
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For all the local "operators":
LETTER FROM A FARM KID,
(NOW AT San Diego MARINE CORPS
RECRUIT TRAINING.)
Dear Ma and Pa,
I am well Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a
mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.
I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 A.M. but I am getting so I like to sleep late.
Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch,
mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing. Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water.
Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham,
steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee.
Their food plus yours holds you till noon when you get fed again.
It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much. We go on "route marches," which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us.
If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks. The country is nice but awful flat. The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.
This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why.
The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home.
All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real
careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home.
I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake I only beat him once.
He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.
Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.
Your loving daughter,
Carol
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OMG! I heard of the legend of Melvino. Welcome back, uh, my friend!
thanks my friend, for some reason people don't like being friends on .org
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This should help lighten the mood:
Jacques Chirac, The French Prime Minister, was sitting in his office wondering what kind of mischief he could perpetrate against the United States when his telephone rang.
"Hallo, Mr. Chirac!", a heavily accented voice said. "This is Paddy down at the Harp Pub in County Sligo, Ireland.
I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!"
"Well, Paddy," Chirac replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"
"Right now," said Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is myself, me cousin Sean,
me next door neighbor Seamus, and the entire dart team from the pub. That makes eight!"
Chirac paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have one hundred thousand men in my army waiting to move on my command."
"Begorra!" said Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back!"
Sure enough, the next day, Paddy called again. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be, Paddy?" Chirac asked. "Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's farm tractor."
Chirac sighed, amused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armored personnel carriers.
Also, I've increased my army to one hundred fifty thousand since we last spoke."
"Saints preserve us!" said Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you."
Sure enough, Paddy rang again the next day. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on!" We have managed to get ourselves airborne!
We've modified Jackie McLaughlin's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Pub have joined us as well!"
Chirac was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes.
My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites.
And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to two hundred thousand!"
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!", said Paddy, "I'll have to ring you back."
Sure enough, Paddy called again the next day. "Top o' the mornin', Mr. Chirac! I am sorry to tell you that we have had to call off the war."
"I'm sorry to hear that," said Chirac. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well," said Paddy, "we've all had a long chat over a bunch of pints, and decided there's no foo-kin way we can feed two hundred thousand prisoners.
Wow, awesome to see you here satex. I have missed you my friend ;)
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Sorry my friend. I just want to be friendly. How can I seem more sincere my friend?
Try being just a little less creepy
And *I'M* pretty creepy so that's saying something :D
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I'm just here to ease the withdrawal symptoms and get my "fix" LOL
missing the place huh?... I'm sure just the site, not the state ;)
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Seems pretty fishy too me. Are we sure the Kamala and the folks in Sacramento aren't behind this? ???
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Wow, awesome to see you here satex. I have missed you my friend ;)
SemiAutoSam - is that you???
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I can't help wondering what the loss in revenue per day is :(
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A Captain in the foreign legion was transferred to a desert post. On his orientation tour he noticed a very old,
seedy looking camel tied out back of the enlisted men's barracks. He asked the Sergeant leading the tour,
"What's the camel for?" The Sergeant replied, "Well sir, it's a long way from anywhere,
and the men have natural --- urges, so when they do, we have the camel."
The Captain said "Well, if it's good for morale, then I guess it's all right with me."
After he had been at the fort for about 6 months, the Captain could not stand it anymore,
so he told his Sergeant, "BRING IN THE CAMEL!!!"The Sarge shrugged his shoulders and led the camel into the Captain's quarters.
The Captain got a foot stool and proceeded to have vigorous --- with the camel.
As he stepped, satisfied, down from the stool and was buttoning his pants he asked the sergeant,
"Is that how the enlisted men do it?" The Sergeant replied, "Well sir, they usually just use it to ride into town."
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A husband and wife love to golf together, but neither of them are playing like they want to, so they decide to take private lessons.
The husband has his lesson first. After the pro sees his swing, he says, "No, no, no, you're gripping the club way too hard!"
"Well, what should I do?" asks the man. "Hold the club gently," the pro replied, "just like you'd hold your wife's ---."
The man takes the advice, takes a swing, and WOW! He hits the ball 250 yds. Straight up the fairway.
The man goes back to his wife with the good news, and the wife can't wait for her lesson.
The next day the wife goes for her lesson. The pro watches her swing and says, "No, no, no, you're gripping the club way too hard."
"What can I do?" asks the wife."Hold the club gently, just like you'd hold your husband's ---."
The wife listens carefully to the pro's advice, takes a swing, and THUMP. The ball goes straight down the fairway . . . about 15 ft.
"That was great," the pro says. "Now, take the club out of your mouth and swing the club like you're supposed to!" says the pro.
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10+ year member... I never come over here as it looks like a scary clown website from 2001 and I have visual issues looking at the bubble gum colors.
But seriously, when the outage went on for hours and then a day, I figured something technology related must have melted down. And then day 2 came and that is when I went searching for answers and... damn! I did not think it would be this serious.
This is really cutting into my Sales & Deals shopping - but maybe saving me money then.
Now I will be hanging out here to see how this resolves.
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Folks:
To all the armchair IT gurus, Kestryll and the hosting provider don't have much experience in this field and can really use your help. Please put all of your suggestions in writing on the back of $100 bills. If one bill is not enough for your ideas, please use multiple bills and mail them all to him for review, evaluation, and consideration.
Until then, put the smartphone/tablet/laptop down, go outside your mom's basement, enjoy a breath of fresh air, clean your guns, go out for a walk, maybe go out to the range...
You get the idea...
:o
Satex forgot to post the address for sending funds. Here's the address:
Please Remit To:
I Can Fix Your Server-C/O Calguns
10000 Dollars Street,
Poorsville, CA. 10000-0000
Please include all recommendations along with your check or money order. ;)
(http://www.quickmeme.com/img/eb/ebcd84e1d393712cd499c9a81ad63b67080900eec7c6e67aed86982fc7366f5e.jpg)
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I'm empty inside without CGN.
I've had to talk to neighbors, the ol' lady, my coworkers.....
This sucks
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A married couple was having a quiet dinner out when a statuesque blonde walked by their table and winked at the husband.
"Who was that?" the wife demanded.
"Well, if you must know," the husband replied, "that was my mistress."
"Your mistress!? You bastard! I want a divorce!" the wife screamed.
Looking directly into her eyes, her husband calmly replied, "Are you saying you want to give up our big house in the suburbs,
your Mercedes, your furs, your maid, your jewelry, and our vacation home in Mexico?"
For a long time they continued dining in silence.
Finally, the woman cleared her throat and said, "Isn't that your boss Howard over there? Who's he with?"
"That's HIS mistress," her husband said. "Hmmmph." she said, taking another bite of dessert. "Ours is much cuter."
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There are three Labradors retrievers sitting in the waiting room at the vet's.
A black lab, a brown lab and a yellow lab.
The black lab turns to the brown lab and says, "Why are you here?" The brown lab says,
"I'm a pisser. I piss on everything. I pissed on my owners sofa, their carpets, their drapes,
but the last straw was when I pissed in the middle of their bed."
The black lab says,"What is the vet going to do to you?"
And the brown lab says, sadly, "Lethal injection."
Then the brown lab asks the black, "Why are you here?"
The black lab says, "I'm a digger. I dig under fences, I dig up the flowers, the bushes.
When I'm inside, I dig up the carpets but the last straw was when I dug a big hole in my owner's sofa."
The brown lab says, "What's the vet going to do to you?" And the black lab says sadly, "Lethal injection."
Then the black and brown labs turn to the yellow lab and ask, "Why are you here?"
The yellow lab says, "I'm a humper. I'll hump anything. I'll hump the cat, the dining room table, a fire hydrant.
Whatever I see, I want to hump. Why, last week, my owner had taken a shower and was drying her toes and I couldn't help it,
I just hopped on her back and humped her."
The black lab says,"So you're here for a lethal injection, too?"
"No, I'm getting my nails clipped."
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I'm waiting for people to go nuts on the marketplace when it's back up
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Whats the word? I'm tried of doing work at work. :-\ Need me some cgn!
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If i was president of calguns, this wouldnt happen.
FP for Calguns president 2016
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If i was president of calguns, this wouldnt happen.
FP for Calguns president 2016
How come everyone thinks you're the president my friend?
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Reading this thread as it turns bad so quickly almost feels like I'm viewing a microcosm of societal degradation following the apocalypse.
Thank goodness for the jokes! They're even better than popcorn!
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In case you were wondering, nothing new on the Peruta front. -- http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000722
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In case you were wondering, nothing new on the Peruta front. -- http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000722
Or Friedman v. Highland w. SCOTUS: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/petitions-were-watching/
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If i was president of calguns, this wouldnt happen.
FP for Calguns president 2016
That's because we wouldn't have a forum. Everyone would be in your basement "putting lotion on it skin or the dog gets the hose..."
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If i was president of calguns, this wouldnt happen.
FP for Calguns president 2016
That's because we wouldn't have a forum. Everyone would be in your basement "putting lotion on it skin or the dog gets the hose..."
Hey, i have 16 systems, a couple handheld and nearly 300 games, you guys can keep busy with tha.
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In case you were wondering, nothing new on the Peruta front. -- http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000722
Funny how they set up a special website due to the "level of interest", but can't be bothered to make a damn decision on it.
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^ and from that web page: "Please check this website regularly for updates."
Last entry 6/16/2015
I'd laugh if it didn't hurt so much.
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Satex, your jokes make me sad. We should be reading those on the .net site
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Satex for cruise director! ;D
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[Llquote author=Killer Bee link=topic=6472.msg37074#msg37074 date=1448487624]
Satex for cruise director! ;D
[/quote]
Yeah,I know he means well, I'm just sad.
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Oh dear Calguns.net,
I've entered you into the google bar to only sit and stare at the screen for 10 minutes at a time.
I've even had you Bookmarked, and when I click you, you no there.
It's painful, like being trapped in the Error 404 endless loop.
I cannot bare/bear arms without you any longer.
Calguns.org is just a semblance of what you used to be.
So soft and cuddly
With guns, glasses of whiskey, and camaraderie at every turn.
Oh my dear .net, where art thou, where art thou calguns.net.
I can only sit here refreshing the page for so much longer......
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Anyone else able to use shop42a.com to buy from Amazon? If that's down, there may be a revenue blip this month.
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Anyone else able to use shop42a.com to buy from Amazon? If that's down, there may be a revenue blip this month.
I can't get it to load...
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shop42a - http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=calgunfounda-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 - works for me.
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Did kest warn the .org host that a bunch of us were gonna come over, i am sure they noticed the sudden spike in people over here lo
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shop42a - http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=calgunfounda-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 - works for me.
Works for me also.
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Did kest warn the .org host that a bunch of us were gonna come over, i am sure they noticed the sudden spike in people over here lo
Here's what he posted March, 2014 - I imagine it still will be a shock:
Calguns.org is hosted on my personal hosting account with Lunarpages.
I think I use less then 2Mb/month on this account normally, tonight they are going to earn their $7.95 a month!!
;D
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Wow!
Still down, huh?
I think this might be some kind of a record...hopefully not a Cubs kinda record.
;D
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shop42a - http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=calgunfounda-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 - works for me.
That full link does indeed work for me but just entering "shop42a.com" (which is what I've been using all along) or "www.shop42a.com (http://www.shop42a.com)" has a problem loading the page and does not redirect.
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Atleast I'm able save for those Black Friday sales since I can't shop the marketplace.
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Come on already .........................
I'm running out of other gun sites to lurk around in ....................
I need my " Market-Place ' Fix
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(http://www.4-traders.com/images/loading_100.gif)
LOL
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What's the latest news? Any updates?
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There are three Labradors retrievers sitting in the waiting room at the vet's.
A black lab, a brown lab and a yellow lab.
The black lab turns to the brown lab and says, "Why are you here?" The brown lab says,
"I'm a pisser. I piss on everything. I pissed on my owners sofa, their carpets, their drapes,
but the last straw was when I pissed in the middle of their bed."
The black lab says,"What is the vet going to do to you?"
And the brown lab says, sadly, "Lethal injection."
Then the brown lab asks the black, "Why are you here?"
The black lab says, "I'm a digger. I dig under fences, I dig up the flowers, the bushes.
When I'm inside, I dig up the carpets but the last straw was when I dug a big hole in my owner's sofa."
The brown lab says, "What's the vet going to do to you?" And the black lab says sadly, "Lethal injection."
Then the black and brown labs turn to the yellow lab and ask, "Why are you here?"
The yellow lab says, "I'm a humper. I'll hump anything. I'll hump the cat, the dining room table, a fire hydrant.
Whatever I see, I want to hump. Why, last week, my owner had taken a shower and was drying her toes and I couldn't help it,
I just hopped on her back and humped her."
The black lab says,"So you're here for a lethal injection, too?"
"No, I'm getting my nails clipped."
HA!
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What's the latest news? Any updates?
If I remember correctly, something about 8am tomorrow it should be back up... something about having to order replacement hardware and waiting for it to arrive.
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What's the latest news? Any updates?
If I remember correctly, something about 8am tomorrow it should be back up... something about having to order replacement hardware and waiting for it to arrive.
And restore backups from tape...
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Normally I'm all for nonsense and mayhem but this thread is out of hand. Having to siphon through all this to try to find any info is just ridiculous.
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Normally I'm all for nonsense and mayhem but this thread is out of hand. Having to siphon through all this to try to find any info is just ridiculous.
geez... missed a day from this thread and - a bunch of stuff to weed through for meaningful update...
a locked thread with periodic updates would be helpful ;)
In the mean time, I get it - down for a couple days... I'm pretty sure I was one of the first ones to say: seems like this might be a long one :(
Glad I'm not the only one...
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Man.... trippin' w/out CGN!
Happy Thanksgiving eve, y'all.
..hope to see you back on the other side soon :)
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There is a bright side to this outage, 2 actually,
1) the Chinese and Russian spammers may move on thinking the site is gone permanently.
2) all the money we have saved by not buying stuff at the "sales"
-1) I am sure we bankrupt a company or 2 that was expecting our buying power to balance their end of year books
-bb
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Well, it looks like things are slowly coming online.
I get this now...The server at www.calguns.net is taking too long to respond
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(http://[URL=http://s100.photobucket.com/user/twobillscoins/media/2FE55725-B540-41D5-9136-73B6AE2C89F1_zpsbnpseirf.jpg.html][IMG]http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m23/twobillscoins/2FE55725-B540-41D5-9136-73B6AE2C89F1_zpsbnpseirf.jpg)[/URL][/img]
That didn't work. Bring back .net.
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Well, it looks like things are slowly coming online.
I get this now...The server at www.calguns.net is taking too long to respond
ping www.calguns.net still shows...IP Address is resolved...host is unreachable...
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(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m23/twobillscoins/2FE55725-B540-41D5-9136-73B6AE2C89F1_zpsbnpseirf.jpg) (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/twobillscoins/media/2FE55725-B540-41D5-9136-73B6AE2C89F1_zpsbnpseirf.jpg.html)
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The latest update is the the restoration from tape is going smoothly so far.
The DNS server has been restored.
We're still on target for being back up tomorrow.
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The latest update is the the restoration from tape is going smoothly so far.
The DNS server has been restored.
We're still on target for being back up tomorrow.
Cool, thanks for the update...
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Excellent news!
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Thanks for the update Kes.
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The latest update is the the restoration from tape is going smoothly so far.
The DNS server has been restored.
We're still on target for being back up tomorrow.
how current is the tape backup? Are you guys anticipating any data loss?
thanks to all working hard to bring back the site!
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Thank you for the updates and for all the hard work restoring the site.
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The latest update is the the restoration from tape is going smoothly so far.
The DNS server has been restored.
We're still on target for being back up tomorrow.
Woot!
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That's good news. I can have turkey and .net tomorrow.
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Good. Can finally finish selling off my .22 ammo since my CZ rifle sold.
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The latest update is the the restoration from tape is going smoothly so far.
The DNS server has been restored.
We're still on target for being back up tomorrow.
Ur gonna credit my account for three days after my death right? ;D
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I miss working deals in the marketplace. I have some parts I'm trying to acquire. I hope I can rap them up before black Friday.
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Great news on the restore.
Can't wait for CG's to be back up. Need black friday news and impulse buying motivation.
Tis the season.
-g
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Great news on the restore.
Can't wait for CG's to be back up. Need black friday news and impulse buying motivation.
Tis the season.
-g
I'm already spending WAAY too much time on PSA... i might need a govt bailout soon ;)
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Restore backup from tape? Vas is dis "tape" you speak of? Tape?
I checked this out, apparently, some sort of "tape" was used in ancient times...the '80's where a kind of magnetized tape was used for information storage. Quite heathan by today's standards. Tape? Really?
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I'm already spending WAAY too much time on PSA... i might need a govt bailout soon ;)
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Just tell tell the credit card forgiveness program you're one of zero's children and have been buying
Christmas gifts for the less-fortunate.
All you need are your debts taken care of by the taxpayers, a bag of weed, skittles, iced tea, and a Glock Foo-Tay!
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The latest update is the the restoration from tape is going smoothly so far.
The DNS server has been restored.
We're still on target for being back up tomorrow.
It's almost "tomorrow" :D
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Yeah it looks to be something big, CGN, Geo/ProfEdge and a couple other sites I know are hosted there are down.
Perhaps Geovario should pay their electric bill?
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It's not back but there is progress!
I can now log in to the server control panel, I can't get to the file server yet but it's better than 'page doesn't exist'.
:D
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I like Turkeys.
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I like Turkeys.
I like cattle....and hogs...and fowl...and, and, and....well you get the idea.
;D
And Kes, thanks for trying your best to get the site back up. Even though most (including me) make jokes about it, we do appreciate your hard work.
:thumbsup:
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The updates on GeoVario's main page aren't encouraging. It seems like they have experienced their own Pearl Harbor day.
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Kes....go do the Thanksgiving thing with the family....most of us will survive another day or 2 without the site being up.
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Kes....go do the Thanksgiving thing with the family....most of us will survive another day or 2 without the site being up.
Agreed.
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Gathering with family and friends is much more important than a website.
I'll find out about all the latest gossip tomorrow.
Y'all have a great Thanksgiving, I'm off to go start cooking the feast.
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Gathering with family and friends is much more important than a website.
I'll find out about all the latest gossip tomorrow.
Y'all have a great Thanksgiving, I'm off to go start cooking the feast.
+1
Enjoy Family time,
Thanks for the time you put into keeping things running.
But higher power is saying you need family time :D
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Kes....go do the Thanksgiving thing with the family....most of us will survive another day or 2 without the site being up.
I have to agree too.
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Kes....go do the Thanksgiving thing with the family....most of us will survive another day or 2 without the site being up.
Happy Thanksgiving. Kes go join your family. Calguns will be here tomorrow.
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Things are not looking good for Geovario
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
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Kes:
Go cook your turkey, have some beer.
Bacon and tere hanges can wait til tomorrow.
Thanks for the updates.
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Things are not looking good...
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
Wow, that doesn't sound good but I know nothing of this stuff. I turn my computer on and that's about it.
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Professional Edge / GeoVario Hosting, OFFLINE
Unfortunately as you are seeing this page, you have come during the time of the worst hardware failure in our company's history.
The website you are expecting, or the email account you were trying to reach went offline at roughly 4:45pm PST 11/23/2015; after we experienced a cascade hardware problem that affected our Storage Area Network disk arrays.
At this time, all static files, email accounts and most of our web and application servers are offline, database servers were not affected, but without application and web servers the content is not reachable - we are actively working to restore service, however between expiditing replacement parts and time to restore from backups we are expecting services to restore by roughly 6am PST, November 26th.
We are very aware this has been a huge problem for everyone, we apologize greatly and continue to work to restore service as quickly as possible.
UPDATES: 2:00pm PST 11/25/2015 - all failed hardware has been replaced and all logical data has finished restore process. NameServer (DNS) services are restored. As name servers were needed for the WebSites that were not affected, some sites are back online, however all email is still OFFLINE.
CRITICAL!!!: 6:48pm PST 11/25/2015 - a time drift/snapshot bug in the various backups has made full recovery impossible. We highly suggest if you are using an email client such as Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.. that you use the "Local Folders", "Personal Folders", etc.. to make a copy of any EMAIL in your IMAP inbox. A large number of existing emails in the IMAP inboxes have been affected by the outage, and as email is not something that we do daily backups of - we can not restore any email in your inbox. Please create a "Local or Personal Folder" and drag and drop all email from your IMAP inbox into a local folder stored on your machine. NOTE if you use POP3 you should already be storing data locally on your machine, and no action is required.
UPDATES: 11:30pm PST 11/25/2015 - integrity checks of the restored storage snapshots are still running, and still finding lots of errors due to the time drift of the snapshots. We suggest you locate copies of the static files (pictures, app software, etc) as you may need to re-upload some content to the webservers. Again - the database servers are not affected at all - so all posts, messages, purchase history, etc.. are not affected, but the forum software, or uploaded images may be affected - we'll know more once the integrity checks finish.
UPDATES: 4:00am PST 11/26/2016 - integrity checks finished - which ended up producing more questions as to how we arrived where we are; in short we have unusable backups, lots of filesystem corruption, and now sets of servers that even though they can now access working hardware refused to run at speeds faster than a computer from the late 1960s . As we have already been planning the next phase of our services to be built using Amazon AWS Cloud Servers, we have spun up several servers there and are moving critical services there as quickly as possible. We hate to say it - but you likely won't have your website back in the next 2 hours - unless you already have your site back now. Next update will be at 12 noon PST.
Sincerely,
Professional Edge LLC
800-208-5510
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
No Bueno my friends. No Bueno at all.
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That doesn't sound good at all.
I wonder who/what caused all this?
(http://pattyfromtheblog.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/steve-660x330.jpg)
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Things are not looking good for Geovario
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
Wow.
It's thanksgiving day and it sounds like GeoVario is the biggest turkey in the oven.
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Prob the Republican Party^
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Prob the Republican Party^
Dick Cheney
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Prob the Republican Party^
Dick Cheney
Naw, Rich is cool, I like him, he has the, crazy old man who would beat your *** if he was drunk look.
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Prob the Republican Party^
Dick Cheney
He was up in Oroville a couple of weeks ago bird hunting in the valley. Friends saw him at Huntingtons Sportsman Store. Wife who works at the hospital reported no gun shot duck hunters...
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Things are not looking good for Geovario
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
Oh Darn!
Does this mean I have to wait even longer for my mosin from The Expertish?
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This whole withdrawel has turned into recovery. I'm losing it guys. Send help. /humor
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Things are not looking good for Geovario
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
Oh Darn!
Does this mean I have to wait even longer for my mosin from The Expertish?
I think today is optimistic based on their series of updates ... :-\
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Things are not looking good for Geovario
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
Oh Darn!
Does this mean I have to wait even longer for my mosin from The Expertish?
The Expertish is just ahead of Freakshow10mm. ::)
Today sure is a turkey day with these names popping up!
Happy Thanksgiving Cal Gunners.
Hope were back up soon sharing and hitting the BF FA related sales with
ruthless abandon.
-g
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Prob the Republican Party^
Dick Cheney
He was up in Oroville a couple of weeks ago bird hunting in the valley. Friends saw him at Huntingtons Sportsman Store. Wife who works at the hospital reported no gun shot duck hunters...
LOL. But that does explain the black, tinted out suburbans I saw parked on Central House Rd.
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Things are not looking good for Geovario
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
Oh Darn!
Does this mean I have to wait even longer for my mosin from The Expertish?
You mean you haven't gotten yours yet?
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Professional Edge / GeoVario Hosting, OFFLINE
Unfortunately as you are seeing this page, you have come during the time of the worst hardware failure in our company's history.
The website you are expecting, or the email account you were trying to reach went offline at roughly 4:45pm PST 11/23/2015; after we experienced a cascade hardware problem that affected our Storage Area Network disk arrays.
At this time, all static files, email accounts and most of our web and application servers are offline, database servers were not affected, but without application and web servers the content is not reachable - we are actively working to restore service, however between expiditing replacement parts and time to restore from backups we are expecting services to restore by roughly 6am PST, November 26th.
We are very aware this has been a huge problem for everyone, we apologize greatly and continue to work to restore service as quickly as possible.
UPDATES: 2:00pm PST 11/25/2015 - all failed hardware has been replaced and all logical data has finished restore process. NameServer (DNS) services are restored. As name servers were needed for the WebSites that were not affected, some sites are back online, however all email is still OFFLINE.
CRITICAL!!!: 6:48pm PST 11/25/2015 - a time drift/snapshot bug in the various backups has made full recovery impossible. We highly suggest if you are using an email client such as Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.. that you use the "Local Folders", "Personal Folders", etc.. to make a copy of any EMAIL in your IMAP inbox. A large number of existing emails in the IMAP inboxes have been affected by the outage, and as email is not something that we do daily backups of - we can not restore any email in your inbox. Please create a "Local or Personal Folder" and drag and drop all email from your IMAP inbox into a local folder stored on your machine. NOTE if you use POP3 you should already be storing data locally on your machine, and no action is required.
UPDATES: 11:30pm PST 11/25/2015 - integrity checks of the restored storage snapshots are still running, and still finding lots of errors due to the time drift of the snapshots. We suggest you locate copies of the static files (pictures, app software, etc) as you may need to re-upload some content to the webservers. Again - the database servers are not affected at all - so all posts, messages, purchase history, etc.. are not affected, but the forum software, or uploaded images may be affected - we'll know more once the integrity checks finish.
UPDATES: 4:00am PST 11/26/2016 - integrity checks finished - which ended up producing more questions as to how we arrived where we are; in short we have unusable backups, lots of filesystem corruption, and now sets of servers that even though they can now access working hardware refused to run at speeds faster than a computer from the late 1960s . As we have already been planning the next phase of our services to be built using Amazon AWS Cloud Servers, we have spun up several servers there and are moving critical services there as quickly as possible. We hate to say it - but you likely won't have your website back in the next 2 hours - unless you already have your site back now. Next update will be at 12 noon PST.
Sincerely,
Professional Edge LLC
800-208-5510
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
No Bueno my friends. No Bueno at all.
There is no question in my mind that this problem was brewing for possibly several weeks. Meaning at least one drive was failing somewhat and according to what I remember reading considering the heat issues, it was just a matter of time unfortunately. Certainly not blaming anyone. Just very unfortunate. I noticed the site being slow for at least one week prior to the crash. It could have been coincidental.
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Prob the Republican Party^
Dick Cheney
Newsom & DeLeon
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Professional Edge / GeoVario Hosting, OFFLINE
Unfortunately as you are seeing this page, you have come during the time of the worst hardware failure in our company's history.
The website you are expecting, or the email account you were trying to reach went offline at roughly 4:45pm PST 11/23/2015; after we experienced a cascade hardware problem that affected our Storage Area Network disk arrays.
At this time, all static files, email accounts and most of our web and application servers are offline, database servers were not affected, but without application and web servers the content is not reachable - we are actively working to restore service, however between expiditing replacement parts and time to restore from backups we are expecting services to restore by roughly 6am PST, November 26th.
We are very aware this has been a huge problem for everyone, we apologize greatly and continue to work to restore service as quickly as possible.
UPDATES: 2:00pm PST 11/25/2015 - all failed hardware has been replaced and all logical data has finished restore process. NameServer (DNS) services are restored. As name servers were needed for the WebSites that were not affected, some sites are back online, however all email is still OFFLINE.
CRITICAL!!!: 6:48pm PST 11/25/2015 - a time drift/snapshot bug in the various backups has made full recovery impossible. We highly suggest if you are using an email client such as Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.. that you use the "Local Folders", "Personal Folders", etc.. to make a copy of any EMAIL in your IMAP inbox. A large number of existing emails in the IMAP inboxes have been affected by the outage, and as email is not something that we do daily backups of - we can not restore any email in your inbox. Please create a "Local or Personal Folder" and drag and drop all email from your IMAP inbox into a local folder stored on your machine. NOTE if you use POP3 you should already be storing data locally on your machine, and no action is required.
UPDATES: 11:30pm PST 11/25/2015 - integrity checks of the restored storage snapshots are still running, and still finding lots of errors due to the time drift of the snapshots. We suggest you locate copies of the static files (pictures, app software, etc) as you may need to re-upload some content to the webservers. Again - the database servers are not affected at all - so all posts, messages, purchase history, etc.. are not affected, but the forum software, or uploaded images may be affected - we'll know more once the integrity checks finish.
UPDATES: 4:00am PST 11/26/2016 - integrity checks finished - which ended up producing more questions as to how we arrived where we are; in short we have unusable backups, lots of filesystem corruption, and now sets of servers that even though they can now access working hardware refused to run at speeds faster than a computer from the late 1960s . As we have already been planning the next phase of our services to be built using Amazon AWS Cloud Servers, we have spun up several servers there and are moving critical services there as quickly as possible. We hate to say it - but you likely won't have your website back in the next 2 hours - unless you already have your site back now. Next update will be at 12 noon PST.
Sincerely,
Professional Edge LLC
800-208-5510
http://www.professionaledgellc.com (http://www.professionaledgellc.com)
No Bueno my friends. No Bueno at all.
There is no question in my mind that this problem was brewing for possibly several weeks. Meaning at least one drive was failing somewhat and according to what I remember reading considering the heat issues, it was just a matter of time unfortunately. Certainly not blaming anyone. Just very unfortunate. I noticed the site being slow for at least one week prior to the crash. It could have been coincidental.
I fear more dire underpinnings to this tragedy ...
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I don't know what all this technical gobbledy gook means. I just know how to turn on my porn machine and follow my bookmark to calguns.
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I don't know what all this technical gobbledy gook means. I just know how to turn on my porn machine and follow my bookmark to calguns.
Exactly. Except I just turn on my phone and scan through Calguns on the Tapatalk app.
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Damnit now I'm over families house for Thanksgiving refreshing furiously the .net site, no love.
Now I have no choice but to rape the liquor so no one will try to talk to drunken me, and if they do, hell, I'm drunk. I'll never remember it and have the drunk excuse for anything I say.
Thanks CalGuns!
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Kes....go do the Thanksgiving thing with the family....most of us will survive another day or 2 without the site being up.
But... some might not!
"If it saves even 1 life..."
haha
Happy thanksgiving everyone!
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Calguns.org... is like Calguns.net with a bullet button. ;D
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Kes....go do the Thanksgiving thing with the family....most of us will survive another day or 2 without the site being up.
But... some might not!
"If it saves even 1 life..."
haha
Happy thanksgiving everyone!
Its for the children, won't someone think of the children!
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Its for the children, won't someone think of the children!
Right? It's common sense!
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At least we know that we won't lose any of our highly insightful posts. Multiple backup exist at the NSA, FBI, ATF, DOJ...
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26/2016 - 12:16pm PST - Update6: The time drift/snapshot bug in various backups as mentioned has resulted in all backups for the affected webservers and email servers to be completely useless. Further the fully restored hardware while functioning correctly is running gruesomely slow at the Hypervisor (Virtualization) layer - causing the restored servers to run so slowly they timeout before serving a single webpage or a single email. We are copying all Email Data to our newly provisioned AWS Cloud Servers - we will locate a DNS server there as well, to make sure that DNS has no further outages. At this time about 40% of the email data is transfered to AWS - and plan to bring email services back online by around 6pm PST.
Next Update at 4pm PST
so, cascading hardware failure, some firmware that wasn't updated, so they werent notified of the impending doom, and completely unusable backups due to bugs.
Erg. Not my circus, not my monkeys, thank God.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I love you guys♡€♡
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How exactly does a "bug" cause backups to become useless? Did the bug walk across the room, open the closet door, and eat the backup tapes?
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I stand by my previous comments that this host is completely inept. Time to find a new one, in my opinion, even if the guy is Kes's friend. This is 2015, this sort of failure is not acceptable. It sounds like the forum might be starting from scratch. Let me put it this way... If you had the only copy of all your family photos stored at your friend's house, and they all got lost in a house fire because your friend left the stove on when he went on vacation, would you keep storing your new photos at his house after he rebuilds it?
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Calm down, we are NOT starting from scratch.
The database server which has all the settings, posts, PMs and such is fine.
Our database is intact.
Worst case scernario is I have to reload the vBulletin software and reconnect it to the database.
If we lose anything it would be some images stored as attachments.
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Calm down, we are NOT starting from scratch.
The database server which has all the settings, posts, PMs and such is fine.
Our database is intact.
Worst case scernario is I have to reload the vBulletin software and reconnect it to the database.
If we lose anything it would be some images stored as attachments.
Calmness never solved anything ;D That's all good news. By the way, how in the world did you end up with so much negative karma? It's anarchy around here :o
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Seriously? A chance to 'smite' the Admin?
Who would pass that up!! ;D
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Seriously? A chance to 'smite' the Admin?
Who would pass that up!! ;D
I would not smite you kestryll my friend. good karma for my friend
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Seriously? A chance to 'smite' the Admin?
Who would pass that up!! ;D
I would not smite you kestryll my friend. good karma for my friend
And I would never Smite you Melvino, or at least, no more than once per hour. That's a promise.
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Think of those poor son of a B's working in that server room/ hosting facility/ whatever you call it all day instead of enjoying football and turkey today. how bad does that stink.
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Think of those poor son of a B's working in that server room/ hosting facility/ whatever you call it all day instead of enjoying football and turkey today. how bad does that stink.
Seriously, that sucks.
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Worst case scernario is I have to reload the vBulletin software and reconnect it to the database.
If we lose anything it would be some images stored as attachments.
I had to do that once for CAPRC after accidentally deleting the root directory on the web server.
It wasn't all that bad.
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Im starting to have withdrawals. So I'm in here.
Yes me 3 Sheeezzzzz
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Worst case scernario is I have to reload the vBulletin software and reconnect it to the database.
If we lose anything it would be some images stored as attachments.
I had to do that once for CAPRC after accidentally deleting the root directory on the web server.
It wasn't all that bad.
LOL! That is the loudest click your mouse will ever make, ask me how I know... ;)
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LOL! That is the loudest click your mouse will ever make, ask me how I know... ;)
Yep.
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Anybody check on the "4 o'clock update"?
Can't find the link, too busy cooking good stuff to look...and...I'm scared...I see dead servers....
(http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/sandbox/news/140818/haley-osment-1024.jpg)
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^^^^
Taking longer than expected to move the email data. Expecting ~7pm finish for that. No mention of website restorations though.
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There is no question in my mind that this problem was brewing for possibly several weeks. Meaning at least one drive was failing somewhat and according to what I remember reading considering the heat issues, it was just a matter of time unfortunately. Certainly not blaming anyone. Just very unfortunate. I noticed the site being slow for at least one week prior to the crash. It could have been coincidental.
It was the job of the hosting company to make sure things like this don't happen. System failures this massive do not happen suddenly overnight, there has to have been some chain of events. My experiences with NOCs, it usually points to failure of the system managers to monitor the health of the system. Most NOCs only monitor basic functionality and do not get into the hardware as much. Personally I would never trust this hosting service again and for this hosting service, they need to make some real changes to how they monitor the site. Going over the AWS would eliminate most of their issues but makes them dependent on AWS.
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They're working on it.
(https://blog.dotcom-monitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/1st.jpg)
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9pm is the new estimate to complete data move.
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cockedandlocked;
Asking about timeshare? Here you go. :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing)
http://youtu.be/Q07PhW5sCEk (http://youtu.be/Q07PhW5sCEk)
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How do I leave negative karma??
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How do I leave negative karma??
Click where it says "smite" for negative or "applaud" for positive.
If you don't see those links, it's because you are too new to have the privileges yet...
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Thanks Randall!
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I am not an IT guy, but as a commercial hvac tech I have experiance with data center, nod/relay stations, and cell towers. Since this was a massive failure of the equipment, rather than a lack of maintenance, I think it was a failure of cooling equipment and failed temperature alarms. That would explain such a widespread failure.
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There is no question in my mind that this problem was brewing for possibly several weeks. Meaning at least one drive was failing somewhat and according to what I remember reading considering the heat issues, it was just a matter of time unfortunately. Certainly not blaming anyone. Just very unfortunate. I noticed the site being slow for at least one week prior to the crash. It could have been coincidental.
It was the job of the hosting company to make sure things like this don't happen. System failures this massive do not happen suddenly overnight, there has to have been some chain of events. My experiences with NOCs, it usually points to failure of the system managers to monitor the health of the system. Most NOCs only monitor basic functionality and do not get into the hardware as much.
We had a drive failure where I work (a school district) nearly a year ago, over the Christmas break. A similar situation, with a failed drive in the SAN. It was rebuilding onto a hot spare as the vendor overnighted a replacement drive.
Of course, during the holidays, overnight shipping does not necessarily equate to 'overnight'. When the replacement drive arrived two days later, the rebuild had already failed due to another drive failure, this time the parity drive for the original failed pair.
By the time the second replacement arrived and the discrepancy between our holiday schedules and the vendor's, the task of restoring the hardware and the data took a little over two weeks.
Of course, we are a minor value customer, with only 17 or 18 VM servers running on the SAN. I am sure larger customers receive better service.
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Where I work we have a contract with the SAN vendor. When a drive fails it sends us an email, but it also send a message back to the vendor. A disk shows up within four hours, sometimes I've found out there was a failed drive because a delivery guy was knocking on the window at 6AM. Then I check my email and see the message.
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Prob the Republican Party^
Dick Cheney
Naw, Rich is cool, I like him, he has the, crazy old man who would beat your *** if he was drunk look.
Dick's a good man. He's got a good hear.... Dick's a good man....
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...If we lose anything it would be some images stored as attachments...
Whaaaaaa?
The 'Pics That Make You LOL...' thread is dead?
Nooooooooooo ! :'(
Oh, wait. Stored attachments.
NM.
Noob out.
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PE now says
11/26/2016 - 8:53pm PST - Update9: DNS servers are now completely removed from the previous hardware clusters, now located in California and Oregon datacenters. Email is still copying as are the Websites.
Next Update at 12am midnight PST
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
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PE now says 11/26/2016 - 8:53pm PST - Update9: DNS servers are now completely removed from the previous hardware clusters, now located in California and Oregon datacenters. Email is still copying as are the Websites.
Next Update at 12am midnight PST
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
Librarian is a noob.
Hahahah...
I'm just soooooo glad I'm not one of the schlubs trying to fix this.
Soooo glad.
BTDT.
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...If we lose anything it would be some images stored as attachments...
Whaaaaaa?
The 'Pics That Make You LOL...' thread is dead?
Nooooooooooo ! :'(
Oh, wait. Stored attachments.
NM.
Noob out.
That's why I hotlink everything. Besides pissing off some website peeps, eh.
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Where I work we have a contract with the SAN vendor. When a drive fails it sends us an email, but it also send a message back to the vendor. A disk shows up within four hours, sometimes I've found out there was a failed drive because a delivery guy was knocking on the window at 6AM. Then I check my email and see the message.
LOL. We do 8x5xNBD contract support, because our admins won't pay the overtime for us responding nights and weekends.
They sure do bitch though, if something is down on a Monday morning.
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How do I leave negative karma??
Click where it says "smite" for negative or "applaud" for positive.
If you don't see those links, it's because you are too new to have the privileges yet...
My friend, isn't it great! My friend and I are back in the off topic, just like it should be my friend?
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The weboobies are bouncing...I mean the website is bouncing boobies...I meant the boobies are down. Gah its still not bouncing boobies. Boobs. Website is boobs. Im ok with this. Boobs.
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How do I leave negative karma??
Click where it says "smite" for negative or "applaud" for positive.
If you don't see those links, it's because you are too new to have the privileges yet...
My friend, isn't it great! My friend and I are back in the off topic, just like it should be my friend?
Sorry Melvino the Great. Thumbnails just don't have the same effect. ;)
Good karma for my new friend
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How do I leave negative karma??
Click where it says "smite" for negative or "applaud" for positive.
If you don't see those links, it's because you are too new to have the privileges yet...
My friend, isn't it great! My friend and I are back in the off topic, just like it should be my friend?
Sorry Melvino the Great. Thumbnails just don't have the same effect. ;)
I would make my avatar a bouncing boobs gif, but those thangs are so big they would probably take up several terrabytes and cause the .org servers to crash.
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Hey Kes,
I see the updates from ProfessionalEdge regarding increase email access and some sites going back up. Any idea on how this applies to CGN.net?
Thanks!
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I see Nevada Shooters is up and running. When is our turn??? :(
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They're still working on it but small signs of progress, I couldn't get the forum to load all the way but I did the forum main page to partially load on my Pad!
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They're still working on it but small signs of progress, I couldn't get the forum to load all the way but I did the forum main page to partially load on my Pad!
Thanks for the update.
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving
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I thought it was beause of the OT split & I was banned from the non-gun OT !! :-*
Hmmm. I made that suggestion and was shot down - so to speak - so I thought I was banned.
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
gravity vs. horizontally placed eyelids. I would say the guy updating the updates is unconscious. let him sleep too.
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
Probably working instead of typing.
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
Probably working instead of typing.
I hope so...
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This new color theme is so much better!
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Are we going to be here awhile if color scheme changed?
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
11/27/2015 - 7:53pm PST - Update 14: Email is flowing in, the next set of challenges are the vast majority of your WebSites that previously were multi-server clusters routed behind software load-balancers - well the software load-balancers are a mess that's taken us over 20 hours trying to get working, we are giving up. We are instead reconfiguring all websites to run in Single IP mode - the majority of websites should be online by around midnight tonight
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Thanks for the update and all of the work you are doing getting CGN going again. Must have made for a very crummy Thanksgiving.
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Thanks for the update
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
11/27/2015 - 7:53pm PST - Update 14: Email is flowing in, the next set of challenges are the vast majority of your WebSites that previously were multi-server clusters routed behind software load-balancers - well the software load-balancers are a mess that's taken us over 20 hours trying to get working, we are giving up. We are instead reconfiguring all websites to run in Single IP mode - the majority of websites should be online by around midnight tonight
Thank You
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
11/27/2015 - 7:53pm PST - Update 14: Email is flowing in, the next set of challenges are the vast majority of your WebSites that previously were multi-server clusters routed behind software load-balancers - well the software load-balancers are a mess that's taken us over 20 hours trying to get working, we are giving up. We are instead reconfiguring all websites to run in Single IP mode - the majority of websites should be online by around midnight tonight, but all posts counts have been reset to zero
:o
;)
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LOL...reset post counts...oh man the whine will be epic. :'(
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whiney gash
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We all will become a bunch of newb lurkers. :'(
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What happened to the 6 pm update?
11/27/2015 - 7:53pm PST - Update 14: Email is flowing in, the next set of challenges are the vast majority of your WebSites that previously were multi-server clusters routed behind software load-balancers - well the software load-balancers are a mess that's taken us over 20 hours trying to get working, we are giving up. We are instead reconfiguring all websites to run in Single IP mode - the majority of websites should be online by around midnight tonight
ruh-roh
bring the pain
GDGM
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We all will become a bunch of newb lurkers. :'(
it happened a few days ago, monika
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What is "single ip mode"?
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What is "single ip mode"?
ip freely, ip freely. that's all.
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Oh the Horror....................
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LOL...reset post counts...oh man the whine will be epic. :'(
Lol, oh the hordor!
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Shadow of Mordor!
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Amazon Black Friday Order!
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LOL...reset post counts...oh man the whine will be epic. :'(
WHAT?? I had BETTER get my 13,000,000+ post count back, or I will be going to Kes's boss!
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If it started over wouldn't we lose a lot of knowledge?
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We're not starting over, th database which has all the posts, PMs, settings and such was never damaged and is intact.
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So much for a midnight update.
Anyone ready to start taking bets on the over/under of this being resolved before Monday? I'm starting to have my doubts.
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So much for a midnight update.
Anyone ready to start taking bets on the over/under of this being resolved before Monday? I'm starting to have my doubts.
Cynical Eh?
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The main .net page comes up now, the forums have a php error...It's getting close...
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The main .net page comes up now, the forums have a php error...It's getting close...
Yea, I just tried, got the home page. Now I have blue balls.
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So much for a midnight update.
Anyone ready to start taking bets on the over/under of this being resolved before Monday? I'm starting to have my doubts.
Cynical Eh?
It's like chasing a mirage .......... :o
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Getting front page. Entering forums get this:
"Fatal Error: Memcache is not installed in [path]/includes_datastore.php on line 186"
Closer!
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^^^^ I'm getting the same thing.
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Same for me too, front page then error message
**Heart rate slightly increased, palms a little sweaty, sudden spike in impatience for the real thing, a little angry, a little victimized (why me? why does this have to happen to me? and on the holiday weekend!?!**
"Are we there yet? How much longer?"
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Getting front page. Entering forums get this:
"Fatal Error: Memcache is not installed in [path]/includes_datastore.php on line 186"
Closer!
That's what I get too.
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Is there a update . The last thing I saw was saying the site would be up the 26th around 6pm . Well that did not happen . Is there a new time line ??
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SO CLOSE YET SO FAR AWAY
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We are all like a bunch of kids in the back seat of the car on a long trip who keep asking mom and dad "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? When are we gonna get there? Are we there yet?" ;D
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Well this came up.
Info icon
The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error.
What you can try:
Retype the address.
Go back to the previous page.
More information More information
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I'm going to the range, its a sunny day.
Vick
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This part works.
http://www.calguns.net/ (http://www.calguns.net/)
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whiney gash
What is a whiney gash?
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Info icon
The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error.
What you can try:
Refresh the page.
Go back to the previous page.
More information More information
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C'mon peeps! If you can't read Calguns, I know you have time to read through the thread.
The link to the status page at GeoVario has been posted plenty of times.
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
11/28/2015 - 1:07am PST - Update 15: Another 400+ websites are now back online, unfortunately for us (well me that is) - we chose to remove the software load-balancers and go single server for tonight - note the data in file format (never again will we trust snapshot or backup formats) is however in 3 places now, that we can login and see the files - anyway - this means that we had to click at least 1 time on a configuration button on every single website, so while that was happening I also looked at all your websites, some look great - no problems at all... MOST have a problem you can find after clicking on a few pages, and SOME just don't work at all because they use Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.. which needs all the base software files working (i.e. when you see a Server 500 Error page, go click on the Web-Options button and then click on the Error_Log for the domain - and voilla you'll see something like the ".htacess" file is corrupted or the index.php is missing, or the backup folder is missing, etc..) - for this last class of website error that is giving an Error 500 - just reupload the same software files you did before and your website will return. Or open a ticket and tell us what software you need installed and we'll do it for you.
11/28/2015 - 6:11am PST - Update 16: Another WebCluster back online, who needs sleep right? well... me.
No, really, this twitch in my eyebrow is normal ...
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Can someone get this over to GeoVario - maybe can use some reference info and get a handle on things :o
From: http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E500.html
HTTP Error 500 Internal server error
Introduction
The Web server (running the Web Site) encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request by the client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) for access to the requested URL.
This is a 'catch-all' error generated by the Web server. Basically something has gone wrong, but the server can not be more specific about the error condition in its response to the client. In addition to the 500 error notified back to the client, the Web server should generate some kind of internal error log which gives more details of what went wrong. It is up to the operators of the Web server site to locate and analyse these logs. (Last updated: October 2013)
Fixing 500 errors - general
This error can only be resolved by fixes to the Web server software. It is not a client-side problem. It is up to the operators of the Web server site to locate and analyse the logs which should give further information about the error.
Fixing 500 errors - CheckUpDown
Our service monitors your site for HTTP errors like 500. Please contact us (email preferred) whenever you encounter 500 errors on your CheckUpDown account. We then have to liaise with your ISP and the vendor of the Web server software so they can trace the exact reason for the error. Correcting the error may require recoding program logic for the Web server software, which could take some time.
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Whoa! Even librarian is coming unhinged!
I think the underpinnings of civilization may be failing. Hurry mister programmer, bring back calguns.net.
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We all will become a bunch of newb lurkers. :'(
it happened a few days ago, monika
Whatchu talkin about Willis?
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This is the error I see when trying to enter the forums now:
Fatal error: Memcache is not installed in [path]/includes/class_datastore.php on line 186
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According to the last update they are concentrating on restoring email first and then data restore second.
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This is the error I see when trying to enter the forums now:
Fatal error: Memcache is not installed in [path]/includes/class_datastore.php on line 186
Yep, somebody needs to fix that pesky Memgash.
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How many people work for GeoVario? Based on the updates, it seems like it's just one.
Let's hope the lack of sleep doesn't cause them/him to make mistakes.
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C'mon peeps! If you can't read Calguns, I know you have time to read through the thread.
The link to the status page at GeoVario has been posted plenty of times.
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
11/28/2015 - 1:07am PST - Update 15: Another 400+ websites are now back online, unfortunately for us (well me that is) - we chose to remove the software load-balancers and go single server for tonight - note the data in file format (never again will we trust snapshot or backup formats) is however in 3 places now, that we can login and see the files - anyway - this means that we had to click at least 1 time on a configuration button on every single website, so while that was happening I also looked at all your websites, some look great - no problems at all... MOST have a problem you can find after clicking on a few pages, and SOME just don't work at all because they use Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.. which needs all the base software files working (i.e. when you see a Server 500 Error page, go click on the Web-Options button and then click on the Error_Log for the domain - and voilla you'll see something like the ".htacess" file is corrupted or the index.php is missing, or the backup folder is missing, etc..) - for this last class of website error that is giving an Error 500 - just reupload the same software files you did before and your website will return. Or open a ticket and tell us what software you need installed and we'll do it for you.
11/28/2015 - 6:11am PST - Update 16: Another WebCluster back online, who needs sleep right? well... me.
No, really, this twitch in my eyebrow is normal ...
Librarian,
The Error 500 translation, along with the narrative explanation of the sleepless web hoster, seem to indicate that the website backbone is now operational and that the individual websites must now reload their software to restore function to the sites.
That makes it seem that the proverbial ball is now in Calguns court to make the site work.
Am I missing something here?
No, I'm not an addict or anything like that...............
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C'mon peeps! If you can't read Calguns, I know you have time to read through the thread.
The link to the status page at GeoVario has been posted plenty of times.
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
11/28/2015 - 1:07am PST - Update 15: Another 400+ websites are now back online, unfortunately for us (well me that is) - we chose to remove the software load-balancers and go single server for tonight - note the data in file format (never again will we trust snapshot or backup formats) is however in 3 places now, that we can login and see the files - anyway - this means that we had to click at least 1 time on a configuration button on every single website, so while that was happening I also looked at all your websites, some look great - no problems at all... MOST have a problem you can find after clicking on a few pages, and SOME just don't work at all because they use Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.. which needs all the base software files working (i.e. when you see a Server 500 Error page, go click on the Web-Options button and then click on the Error_Log for the domain - and voilla you'll see something like the ".htacess" file is corrupted or the index.php is missing, or the backup folder is missing, etc..) - for this last class of website error that is giving an Error 500 - just reupload the same software files you did before and your website will return. Or open a ticket and tell us what software you need installed and we'll do it for you.
11/28/2015 - 6:11am PST - Update 16: Another WebCluster back online, who needs sleep right? well... me.
No, really, this twitch in my eyebrow is normal ...
Librarian,
The Error 500 translation, along with the narrative explanation of the sleepless web hoster, seem to indicate that the website backbone is now operational and that the individual websites must now reload their software to restore function to the sites.
That makes it seem that the proverbial ball is now in Calguns court to make the site work.
Am I missing something here?
No, I'm not an addict or anything like that...............
Does Calguns have a copy of the software?
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404 error now...so that is progress!
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Does Calguns have a copy of the software?
It's just a matter of re-installing vbulletin.
Getting it all tweaked/modded like before will be the more challenging part...
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C'mon peeps! If you can't read Calguns, I know you have time to read through the thread.
The link to the status page at GeoVario has been posted plenty of times.
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
11/28/2015 - 1:07am PST - Update 15: Another 400+ websites are now back online, unfortunately for us (well me that is) - we chose to remove the software load-balancers and go single server for tonight - note the data in file format (never again will we trust snapshot or backup formats) is however in 3 places now, that we can login and see the files - anyway - this means that we had to click at least 1 time on a configuration button on every single website, so while that was happening I also looked at all your websites, some look great - no problems at all... MOST have a problem you can find after clicking on a few pages, and SOME just don't work at all because they use Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.. which needs all the base software files working (i.e. when you see a Server 500 Error page, go click on the Web-Options button and then click on the Error_Log for the domain - and voilla you'll see something like the ".htacess" file is corrupted or the index.php is missing, or the backup folder is missing, etc..) - for this last class of website error that is giving an Error 500 - just reupload the same software files you did before and your website will return. Or open a ticket and tell us what software you need installed and we'll do it for you.
11/28/2015 - 6:11am PST - Update 16: Another WebCluster back online, who needs sleep right? well... me.
No, really, this twitch in my eyebrow is normal ...
Librarian,
The Error 500 translation, along with the narrative explanation of the sleepless web hoster, seem to indicate that the website backbone is now operational and that the individual websites must now reload their software to restore function to the sites.
That makes it seem that the proverbial ball is now in Calguns court to make the site work.
Am I missing something here?
No, I'm not an addict or anything like that...............
Does Calguns have a copy of the software?
If Calguns doesn't have a copy of the required software, and the sleepless website hoster is waiting for Calguns to re-install the software, then we're going to be down for a very, very, long time.
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Thanks for the update link
C'mon peeps! If you can't read Calguns, I know you have time to read through the thread.
Well no I don't have time to read through 14 pages of nonsense . I went to the page that started having post from the 27th because the the site was to be up on the 26th and looked for the mods post for updates . I guess I missed them but It's not as easy to see who the mods are here .
Thanks again for the link
Metal
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C'mon peeps! If you can't read Calguns, I know you have time to read through the thread.
The link to the status page at GeoVario has been posted plenty of times.
http://www.professionaledgellc.com/ (http://www.professionaledgellc.com/)
11/28/2015 - 1:07am PST - Update 15: Another 400+ websites are now back online, unfortunately for us (well me that is) - we chose to remove the software load-balancers and go single server for tonight - note the data in file format (never again will we trust snapshot or backup formats) is however in 3 places now, that we can login and see the files - anyway - this means that we had to click at least 1 time on a configuration button on every single website, so while that was happening I also looked at all your websites, some look great - no problems at all... MOST have a problem you can find after clicking on a few pages, and SOME just don't work at all because they use Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.. which needs all the base software files working (i.e. when you see a Server 500 Error page, go click on the Web-Options button and then click on the Error_Log for the domain - and voilla you'll see something like the ".htacess" file is corrupted or the index.php is missing, or the backup folder is missing, etc..) - for this last class of website error that is giving an Error 500 - just reupload the same software files you did before and your website will return. Or open a ticket and tell us what software you need installed and we'll do it for you.
11/28/2015 - 6:11am PST - Update 16: Another WebCluster back online, who needs sleep right? well... me.
No, really, this twitch in my eyebrow is normal ...
Librarian,
The Error 500 translation, along with the narrative explanation of the sleepless web hoster, seem to indicate that the website backbone is now operational and that the individual websites must now reload their software to restore function to the sites.
That makes it seem that the proverbial ball is now in Calguns court to make the site work.
Am I missing something here?
No, I'm not an addict or anything like that...............
Does Calguns have a copy of the software?
If Calguns doesn't have a copy of the required software, and the sleepless website hoster is waiting for Calguns to re-install the software, then we're going to be down for a very, very, long time.
That depends. If Calguns has a backup of their data, it shouldn't be an issue even if Geovario's backup of the data was toasted which if I remember correctly, Kestryll already mentioned that all the data was intact.
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Having a copy of the software is not a problem, I can download a fresh copy from vBulletin at any time.
Getting the custom settings back in place is a bit more 'fun' but can be done.
The real trick is going to be remembering what all I did! ;)
I can access the control panel and web server files now but before I start poking around under the hood I'm going to send a text to GV/PE to make sure anything I might do won't mess up any restorations in progress.
We are in route to being back home.
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Having a copy of the software is not a problem, I can download a fresh copy from vBulletin at any time.
Getting the custom settings back in place is a bit more 'fun' but can be done.
The real trick is going to be remembering what all I did! ;)
I can access the control panel and web server files now but before I start poking around under the hood I'm going to send a text to GV/PE to make sure anything I might do won't mess up any restorations in progress.
We are in route to being back home.
Kes,
Thanks much for the update..................
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...We are in route to being back home.
This ^^^ is all I heard :'(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRA6XvQgbi8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRA6XvQgbi8)
[youtube]FRA6XvQgbi8[/youtube]
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We're not starting over, th database which has all the posts, PMs, settings and such was never damaged and is intact.
If the database is intact, why couldn't the post counts be restored?
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kes, make sure you install the latest Goatz on it. ;D
http://store.steampowered.com/app/344450/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/344450/)
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Having a copy of the software is not a problem, I can download a fresh copy from vBulletin at any time.
Getting the custom settings back in place is a bit more 'fun' but can be done.
The real trick is going to be remembering what all I did! ;)
I can access the control panel and web server files now but before I start poking around under the hood I'm going to send a text to GV/PE to make sure anything I might do won't mess up any restorations in progress.
We are in route to being back home.
Thanks for the update. Good idea to check with them first. Measure twice and cut once is always good.
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Ya Kestryll ... don't forget my rattlesnake thread when you rebuild it, you have the technology :oji:
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Things ive fone while eaiting for Calgins.net to work again:
Hit refresh button 8675309 times.
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Ok ..... it has been almost 5 days without calguns so it must be the start of the end of the world :o
[youtube]-XTwWqzKeXc[/youtube]
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The main .net page comes up now, the forums have a php error...It's getting close...
Yea, I just tried, got the home page. Now I have blue balls.
LOL
Same here
Been wanting to post my review of the Ulticlip
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Is there a update . The last thing I saw was saying the site would be up the 26th around 6pm . Well that did not happen . Is there a new time line ??
Two weeks
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whiney gash
What is a whiney gash?
Tony Romo
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How many people work for GeoVario? Based on the updates, it seems like it's just one.
Let's hope the lack of sleep doesn't cause them/him to make mistakes.
But he's an IT guy.
IT guys run on Red Bull and coffee. They don't need sleep. They are androids.
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I finally hacked the cams at GeoVario. Working hard to get things going.........
https://youtu.be/X-WpReNmDhk
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We're not starting over, th database which has all the posts, PMs, settings and such was never damaged and is intact.
If the database is intact, why couldn't the post counts be restored?
That was a joke.
I added the last line to the quote and bolded it.
Given that Murphy has ruled this week, my post ended up at the top of the page :D
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We're not starting over, th database which has all the posts, PMs, settings and such was never damaged and is intact.
If the database is intact, why couldn't the post counts be restored?
I believe the post counts were mentioned by the ISP regarding email. Not the forum message counts.
I think Kes should modify the DNS entry for .net to point to a "site temporarily unavailable" page on .org until he has the web site up and running. When he is happy with .net he modifies the DNS to point back to .net home page. This would cut down on messages here and activity on the site he is working on. My 2 cents.
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The .net site is up.
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And did we are back.
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Rolled back all the way until 1-16-2013 though? What!?
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Its up but when u click on your name an invalid user comes up.
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Back to action
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I can sign on using tapatalk but nothing comes up.
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I just log on from my computer.
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I was able to post on a few thread aaaaand .... It's down again
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1418: seems to be back intermittently - getting database errors just now.
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Well ... it's back up again, then down again ... then up and then <blip> OUT ...!!!
It's got some down time issues that are gonna need serious attention.
...might be awhile before it's back to normal.
Im'unna go 'n make me a turkey sangwitch and watch a movie or something ... maybe I'll talk to the wife for once see how she's doing :shrug:
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I was able to post on a few thread aaaaand .... It's down again
Same here. :(
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I think I crashed it.
I hit post on my reply and that was it.
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The .net site is back up but sometimes you can't get back into a page, or post what you have written. It's getting there, though.
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Getting a lot of error messages. I'll wait a while before I try back again. Nice to see that it is somewhat back up again.
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Well ... it's back up again, then down again ... then up and then <blip> OUT ...!!!
It's got some down time issues that are gonna need serious attention.
...might be awhile before it's back to normal.
Im'unna go 'n make me a turkey sangwitch and watch a movie or something ... maybe I'll talk to the wife for once see how she's doing :shrug:
Be sure to make a turkey sammich for your rattlesnake friend Travis Bickle!! :o
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1418: seems to be back intermittently - getting database errors just now.
Ditto.
Many of my attachments are still there, many (more recent) are missing.
That's going to suck because many of those attachments came from my ISP personal web space and I haven't been able to FTP into that server for over a year... many of my files on that server were not backed up locally.
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'Don't Panic'
We're doing a database backup right now so it's going to give an error.
We're doing a full backup because while the forum is up we have a few files that are not responding so I'm going to upgrade from 3.8.7 to 3.8.9 and hope the update replaces any problematic files.
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CGF seems to be responding properly. I can't read all the above threads on my phone.
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I logged off Net for a bit, and tried to get back on just now, but get a "Database Error"
Maybe because of the backing up??
Kyle
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'Don't Panic'
We're doing a database backup right now so it's going to give an error.
We're doing a full backup because while the forum is up we have a few files that are not responding so I'm going to upgrade from 3.8.7 to 3.8.9 and hope the update replaces any problematic files.
Any idea on how bad the damages to the attachment database will be?
Even if we identify each attachment and find a local file, we can't "reinsert" it into the database without editing every individual post, and that won't restore future posts that IMG linked to the same attachment.
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I posted on .net, got enough of a taste to be able to partially function, went and changed my oil, came back to get a little more to tide me over and IT'S DOWN AGAIN. :'( :'( :'( MAn, I'm starting withdrawals all over again. Hurry, hurry, hurry...........
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I posted on .net, got enough of a taste to be able to partially function, went and changed my oil, came back to get a little more to tide me over and IT'S DOWN AGAIN. :'( :'( :'( MAn, I'm starting withdrawals all over again. Hurry, hurry, hurry...........
I was halfway through my review of the Ulticlip and discovered it was down again when I tried to "go advanced" to add an attachment.
Luckily, I have Lazarus installed so I was able to recover what I had put in the "Quick Reply" window and copy it to the notepad.
Lazarus has been a lifesaver, both for short-term forum outages (like the 5-minute outage at midnight on Calguns, wish Kest would move that routine to 3am), or for when my freaking Verizon ActionLowTech router decides that the table is full and it needs to reboot.
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Why not put a message on the .net page to tell people that Calguns.org is the alternate site when the .net is down?
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This is what I get on .net now.
"Calguns.net will be shut down briefly while we update the software from vB 3.8.7 to 3.8.9. -Calguns.net Admins and Staff."
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Why not put a message on the .net page to tell people that Calguns.org is the alternate site when the .net is down?
Uhhmmm ya ... I did exactly that and not 4 minutes later it got locked.
Now, I don't care why the thread was locked ... makes absolutely no difference to me and absolutely no explanation needed.
Simply tells me CGN Admin doesn't want CGO getting flooded with membership sign-ups. Okay so ... won't do that again.
Hmmmmm ... in other news; I pruned my wife's rose bushes and acacia tree today ... having coffee and ice cream now 'Hagan Daz' - vanilla bar with crunch :D
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'Don't Panic'
We're doing a database backup right now so it's going to give an error.
We're doing a full backup because while the forum is up we have a few files that are not responding so I'm going to upgrade from 3.8.7 to 3.8.9 and hope the update replaces any problematic files.
Any idea on how bad the damages to the attachment database will be?
Even if we identify each attachment and find a local file, we can't "reinsert" it into the database without editing every individual post, and that won't restore future posts that IMG linked to the same attachment.
By default vBulletin stores attachments in the database however as the forum gets larger database size becomes an issue and attachment storage has to be shifted over to the file server which we did.
The database is undamaged but the files on the server took some damage.
We're up and running but we're also still working to recover some files that were lost or damaged.
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Why not put a message on the .net page to tell people that Calguns.org is the alternate site when the .net is down?
That's a really good idea, why didn't you mention it BEFORE I started doing the update???
;D ;D ;D
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At this time still down for me. Hope the updates work.
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I am either getting long load times or "webpage not available".
I tried posting something in another thread several times and got the same thing after hitting reply. I thought none of those posts went through. I just now saw that I posted the same thing 4 times. I'll delete the dupes when I am able to access the delete feature, which I have already tried without success.
Now I'm getting "server error" when I try to post.
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Actually got in and read my a couple of messages but could not reply a couple of hours ago.
Close but no cigar!
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I think I'll give up for tonight, I'm getting nothing, not even error messages.
Kyle
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1722: it's up now, but really slow.
I started a thread, and someone has managed a reply.
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Got nothing here, not even an error page. Just a complete timeout.
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Got nothing here, not even an error page. Just a complete timeout.
Same here...
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I was able to logon, look at the forums, and then respond to a post. It is VERY slow but it does seem to be working. :)
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It's up now. I can log in.
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I was finally able to get in, but could not do so via www.calguns.net.
I replaced the 'www' with 'http://' and then got the front page. From there, the 'Enter the Forums' link did not work until I also removed the 'www' from the URL.
Weird.
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Why not put a message on the .net page to tell people that Calguns.org is the alternate site when the .net is down?
Uhhmmm ya ... I did exactly that and not 4 minutes later it got locked.
Now, I don't care why the thread was locked ... makes absolutely no difference to me and absolutely no explanation needed.
Simply tells me CGN Admin doesn't want CGO getting flooded with membership sign-ups. Okay so ... won't do that again.
Why not put a message on the .net page to tell people that Calguns.org is the alternate site when the .net is down?
That's a really good idea, why didn't you mention it BEFORE I started doing the update???
;D ;D ;D
Well ... I see my post was locked ... BUT :oji: It's also now a sticky ... Thank you Kestryll :thumbsup: :yes:
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We're back online!
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I was finally able to get in, but could not do so via www.calguns.net.
I replaced the 'www' with 'http://' and then got the front page. From there, the 'Enter the Forums' link did not work until I also removed the 'www' from the URL.
Weird.
I did this and I got in. I was able to read a PM from Pterrell then I tried to post in the C&R forum and got the white screen of failure. It felt good to at least get in...
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1944: mostly back; slowness seems gone. But posting continues to give me WSOD - white screen of death - and reload continues to double post.
Better.
Bunches better than nothing there.
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seems up and running fine for me.
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httpS mode is not functional yet.
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Cant wait for PM to work. I can't answer my add :(
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Go home, Calguns.
You're drunk...