Why was SG down?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:10 am

HD failure?
DNS issue?
Expired domain name?
PHP exploit?
Other security breach?
Spilled coffee?
Ken had patch on wrong eye resulting in erroneous bashes?
Phillip needed more to do?

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:11 am

Must've been an HD issue, look at the posting dates, they're all from the 19th and before, server took a fat DUMP!!!

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:13 am

The American Psychiatric Assosiation payed Philip mucho denaro" to take it down. There was a slump in Psych patients with all the nice weather and they felt this would give a boost to their patient lists

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:14 am

During the outage I was getting DNS "not found" errors for all of the *.speedguide.net subdomains.

My vote is for DNS issue on provider end or expired registration (less likely)

Post by **Philip** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:16 am

Server crashed and burned... Had to do a clean install of everything, took the techs at the NOC a day to install Linux... Then I had to configure all services and reinstall from backups... Meanwhile changing DNS since there is not enough time in the day for BIND as well... Still working on getting everything 100% operational.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:17 am

Get some shut eye Philip, or are you runnin on adrenalin now

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:18 am

Hi TonyT

I think it was to Force SG Members to meet with Neighbours, Cleanup Yard, Talk to Children & Family, Pay monthly Bills and have Sexual relations with Other Half

I could be Wrong about the Latter

Have a Good one

Nice to See All Your Smilin Faces again

regards

minir

Post by **Philip** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:19 am

Originally posted by Chris
Get some shut eye Philip, or are you runnin on adrenalin now

Got a couple of hours, thanks for caring. Java and adrenaline should keep me going for a while

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:21 am

Originally posted by Philip
Got a couple of hours, thanks for caring. Java and adrenaline should keep me going for a while

Potent combo for sure

Lot of work to do remotely, we're all better now, thanks

But hey, I got the kitchen drywalled finally

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:26 am

I think it was to Force SG Members to meet with Neighbours, Cleanup Yard, Talk to Children & Family, Pay monthly Bills and have Sexual relations with Other Half

minir inadvertantly says that there exists such a thing as justifiable use of force to acquire sexual relations with other half!

(it must be some sort of Canadian tradition I guess)

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:27 am

Don't ever do that to me/us again

I know I know, I talked to Ken about it yesterday, nothing you guys could do.

*sniff* Well.. it's back

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:29 am

Originally posted by Philip
Got a couple of hours, thanks for caring. Java and adrenaline should keep me going for a while

Come clean with it Philip! You know that it is the alcohol IV that Noevo and I administered to us all!

(151 proof Bacardi mainlined! Chased with Heinekens...

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:29 am

re the server:

"crashed and burned"

Seems odd that took a whole day just to install Linux, which is usually a pretty quik install on a server.

May want to check if your Host runs any type of monitoring app and check the logs so as to trace the actual cause. We have sites at Rackspace with backup hard drives. All boxes are monitored and all failures get logged.

Post by **Philip** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:35 am

Originally posted by TonyT
re the server:

"crashed and burned"

Seems odd that took a whole day just to install Linux, which is usually a pretty quik install on a server.

May want to check if your Host runs any type of monitoring app and check the logs so as to trace the actual cause. We have sites at Rackspace with backup hard drives. All boxes are monitored and all failures get logged.

Definitely looking into it, I've been on their a@#$ all the time, looking into alternative colo as well. Good advice, as always.

aagiants · Post by **aagiants** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:56 am

phew i was dying w/o SG

binksfan · Post by **binksfan** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:59 am

Shakes beginning to subside.......[empties 10 gallon wastebasket full of cigarette butts and 'Jack' bottles].....things starting to settle down and quit spinning.....getting back to normal.

fingernails all gone.....several pencils chewed in 1/2....

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed May 28, 2003 12:04 pm

Originally posted by TonyT
minir inadvertantly says that there exists such a thing as justifiable use of force to acquire sexual relations with other half!

(it must be some sort of Canadian tradition I guess)

----

Hi TonyT

Hey it's Hockey Season here in Canada man

If They ain't with Us, then ther Agin Us

Not the only thing Frigid here is the Ice Surface at This Crucial Time of the Year

Claims of Too Many Beers ring across the Land & the Word Mostly used is Puck.

regards

minir

LT-73 · Post by **LT-73** » Wed May 28, 2003 12:10 pm

Whoa ! man i'm sure glad SG is back! I was freakin out detoxing!

poptom · Post by **poptom** » Wed May 28, 2003 12:14 pm

Down?

I hadn't noticed.

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A_old · Post by **A_old** » Wed May 28, 2003 1:00 pm

What the heck guys. I almost died...3 days without SG! OH NOES!!!!!1

hehehe..seriously I'm addicted to ur site philip (darn u). I even had friends on different isps check it. lol.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed May 28, 2003 1:05 pm

i put up an away msg on sg after liek 8 ppl asked about sg and i had 27 msgs when i came back 10 hours later, we are all addicted!

HawaiianGhost · Post by **HawaiianGhost** » Wed May 28, 2003 1:11 pm

I didn't think it was SG at first, thought it was the DNS prob/issue that I once had with WinMe before. I said to myself, "Awww S#!T not again, this is one of the reasons why I switched to WinXP!!", but when I got the same error at work (no SG.net) and then went home to check if I can pull up Yahoo!, then I knew what the prob was. I got SG.net set as my homepage,...Who doesn't?

Glad that you folks got the issue somewhat resolved, great job Philip. I am much happier now

So how have you folks been?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed May 28, 2003 1:59 pm

Originally posted by John
I had to stay off AIM/ICQ for extended periods LOL

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i just pasted what u told me and was all set lol

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Wed May 28, 2003 2:30 pm

LOL, and i thought i was banned this whole time...

MUHAHAHAHHA

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Wed May 28, 2003 2:40 pm

Originally posted by John
I had to stay off AIM/ICQ for extended periods LOL

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john not want to talk to me...

Jstyr · Post by **Jstyr** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:12 pm

THANK GOD YOU ARE BACK!!!

Jamie_R · Post by **Jamie_R** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:20 pm

yes, thanx for coming back to us - my wife was really ready to be rid of me again

chevyman282 · Post by **chevyman282** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:44 pm

Well that taught me a lesson, I will not miss Mass on Sunday again......In Fact next week I will go to church twice.....I did not go to church Sunday and SG goes down for 2 1/2 days....

Glad your back Philip....

chevy....

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:59 pm

I was forced to pay bills. Do you have any idea what that does to a persons psyche? I told minir that I'd be going to the hospital for I.V. Anti Anxiety drugs. Wooooo that was close.

fanta · Post by **fanta** » Wed May 28, 2003 4:17 pm

Glad things are back to normal. That was an incredibly long time to be down. I figured it must have been pretty bad if it was over a day.

lance-tek · Post by **lance-tek** » Wed May 28, 2003 4:50 pm

it has been nearly 72 hours for me with no SG. I was going through withdrawal. I visited many other places with my spare time though.

Glad to see things are back to normal for the most part.

May want to check out Sharp Web Innovations, this is also my host. Of course I know one of the owners so it helps a little for me.

-lance

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:07 pm

Life is back to NORMAL!!!

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:13 pm

Good to see that things are back up and running. Thanks Ken for keeping me up to date btw.

torsten · Post by **torsten** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:14 pm

It was weird not knowing what was happening. Maybe there should be an alternate SG emergency site where news of problems could be posted.

Or if not, maybe a toll free number with a soothing voice on the other end telling us, everything's gonna be alright.
gonna be alright.
calm down
gonna be alright
alright.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:19 pm

Originally posted by torsten
It was weird not knowing what was happening. Maybe there should be an alternate SG emergency site where news of problems could be posted.

Or if not, maybe a toll free number with a soothing voice on the other end telling us, everything's gonna be alright.
gonna be alright.
calm down
gonna be alright
alright.

Emails, and word of mouth kept me from the brink

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:20 pm

OK, heres the real reason. We don't have enough Folders so we thought if we took the site off-line a couple of days you guys would give in and join the team!

TonyT,
We would have done things differently had we known... We were told Monday AM that a Linux tech would be there soon. (The server is located near you.) Finally the so called Linux tech showed, however couldn't do squat except waste a couple of hours. Basically, the most feasible chance to get live again was to format and clean install.
However, the dipstick...er... tech... couldn't config an IP and said that we would have one by 1st thing Tuesday AM. Lying ba$tard!

Tuesday, while waiting for this butthole, Philip leased a server here in Tampa, however we had to wait for the deal to finalize, get IP's, etc...

It was decided that whichever company gave the Ip first would be where SG would be installed...

Well, finally the install was able to start on our server up by you, which is what we are on now. SG will be installed on a leased server here in Tampa and we will test connections, latency, etc., and decide where to host the server...

Hind sight is 20/20... Not knowing and being lied to is the suXor!

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:21 pm

Originally posted by torsten
It was weird not knowing what was happening. Maybe there should be an alternate SG emergency site where news of problems could be posted.

Or if not, maybe a toll free number with a soothing voice on the other end telling us, everything's gonna be alright.
gonna be alright.
calm down
gonna be alright
alright.

I was thinking the same damn thing..in fact, I kept visiting other SG spinoff's to see if there was news. Fortunately I emailed Brent over at the [H] site to get an update.

We need to make a list of everyones email and icq/aim/whatever handle and keep it on a different site. I'll donate some of my space for just that purpose.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:23 pm

Originally posted by torsten
It was weird not knowing what was happening. Maybe there should be an alternate SG emergency site where news of problems could be posted.

Or if not, maybe a toll free number with a soothing voice on the other end telling us, everything's gonna be alright.
gonna be alright.
calm down
gonna be alright
alright.

I was on ICQ & Aim alerting everyone in my list... (Yes, I am invisible, however, I alerted everyone that was online...

)

You guys send me your ICQ, Aim, email, phone numbers, etc., in case it ever happens in the future...

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:32 pm

I kept goin to the SG chatroom, but no one was there. Then I got an idea and emailed UOD, he set me straight. Since SG is my homepage, I thought my whole connect was belly-up, at least till I really woke up and saw my activity light blinking. Do do that to us Philip!

mwkirchner · Post by **mwkirchner** » Wed May 28, 2003 6:24 pm

Thank you ... thank you ... thank you. WHEW!

If I came home tonight and could not get in here ... I did not know what I would do. I was jonesin' like a mofo! You just don't realize how badly you are hooked until it ain't there.

I had to get some games and stuff out to play. Had a really bad few days.

Was glad when I came home tonight and headed over here and it actually worked. Caught me right off guard.

P.S. Just realized that my count is down. Showing 2574 ... was over 2600 when this happened. Guess I will have to do some smapping to get it up there again.