Only reason I would be against it is that some people wouldn't want to move and we would lose some of my fav. posters. It doesn't make sense to me but I know that will happen. I just can't understand why a message board would totally crap out so much.

Beat a dead horse much?  It's been a long time since there's been issues; and unfortunately I haven't been able to get a hold of Rip to figure out what's going on but I'm sure he's on it.

For what it's worth I have a relatively recent (late October) offsite backup of the site; and we haven't had any issues since the server had been migrated to the new platform.  Instead of bitching about OO, it may be worth considering that if the problem is widespread it's actually affecting Rip's livelihood.

Anyhow I've got to get to more meetings    afterwards if it isn't up I will drop him a line and find out what's going on.

Obviously the message board really isn't important at all in the grand scheme of things but I need something to complain about! I do hope everything is okay it's just kind of bringing back bad memories of the last time. Over macho grande? No, I'll never get over macho grande..

Relax this isn't even anywhere near as big a problem as the infamous OOtage. There isn't even a problem with OO itself. just the server it is on so I am expediting the plan to move it to a new server purchased by the SUPER DUPER OO Staff. Everyone just go play the L4D2 demo for a few hours and all will be back.

Hm, FishPants not being able to get hold of Rip is more worrying to me than OO being down, and him not posting here is also. Just hope all is well, and if it is, I'm sure OO will be back up soon.

Just because all the migrations I am doing has my exchange server down as well. I am still alive and even off my crutches now.

Only reason I would be against it is that some people wouldn't want to move and we would lose some of my fav. posters. It doesn't make sense to me but I know that will happen. I just can't understand why a message board would totally crap out so much.

Beat a dead horse much?  It's been a long time since there's been issues; and unfortunately I haven't been able to get a hold of Rip to figure out what's going on but I'm sure he's on it.

For what it's worth I have a relatively recent (late October) offsite backup of the site; and we haven't had any issues since the server had been migrated to the new platform.  Instead of bitching about OO, it may be worth considering that if the problem is widespread it's actually affecting Rip's livelihood.

Anyhow I've got to get to more meetings    afterwards if it isn't up I will drop him a line and find out what's going on.

Yea I am on it. Moving a lot of VMs around and that is causing a little craziness and I have a lot going on besides that. All data is safe on the SAN it is just a matter of moving the actuall OS VM around and getting the servers themselves to quit screwing up, or letting me screw them up. Be patient we will be back up any minute now.

So I got my itinerary and I'll have pretty much all of Sunday the 12th to play around in Boulder.  Any suggestions?

Yea, hit as many little bars that brew beer as you can. The are loaded with hot college chicks that will make you think you are living in a beer commercial. Just with actually good beer.

Also, this guy should be advocating that the A's have a testicular cancer awareness day. The silent ball chopper offer.

Cool. They could give away free cups to the men and the guys sister could sue for a stack of cash.

I downed the server inadvertantly. Coming back up.

Rip

I had a NIC go out on the server hosting the OO VM. Copying it to another server. SHould be back up in a few hours.

Rip

BTW there is a surprise coming before the end of the month but I'm not giving it away here.

Yesterdays lack of ability to post was caused by Fishpants accidentally deleting indexes and having to rebuild. It was corrected and working properly again early Tuesday evening. We will be going down for maintenance and updates again on Friday. See the post on OO for info.

It's still cranking away on the indexes.. Unfortunately Myiasmchk doesn't give you a whole lot of details other than increasing index counters as it goes.

What are you doing to your as???  Something about a munchkin, or munching?   

He can't help it. Canadian tradition and all!

Just as long as you know who doesn't show up. No, not you, you know who I'm talking about.   

Now I know you couldn't be talking about me. Because if you were I would have to lay the smack down. It has been a while since I had to make a Canuck cry.

Anywho we had to restart once so we could use screen to allow attaching and detaching the session. The actual database is maintained on a $40 dollar HP(lefthand) SAN system that snapshots daily and we send a copy offsite routinely so the is ZERO chance of going though another three months of torture not knowing if we have lost data or not. This is simply a maintenance period trying to deal with performance issues. I am pondering whether or not to move the OO vm or the other VM on the same physical server to another box overnight or maybe this weekend. So there may be more short periods of downtime coming but be assured no longtime outage is imminent.

My guess is being back up by 9PM CST.

Rip

I have a Track IR 4 that hasn't been connected in some time. I will ponder whether I could part with it over the weekend. Although I could be devious and make you post on OO for it.

and consensus seems to be much improved performance. Couple more little changes late tonight, but nothing that is risky.   

Rip

Having some DNS issues after a bind upgrade last night. Will update here as I get it fixed.

Well it may be needed a little bit. We are going to be moving over to VMware 2.0 and 64bit for OO so we can support more memory. Hopefully helping deal with the huge database and the problems associated with some functions because of it.

Anytime there is any substantial downtime during the process I will try to come back and keep this legendary thread current.

 

There is a guy with an account at OO who is their marketing director. He may be able to hook you up with someone that can help. His username is GoGamer.com - Jason

and hopefully it is working better and faster for everyone. We have made some changes that should have a positive effect on performance as well as reliability.

We will be down saturday for some maintenance. So don't be suprised. All stuff that should make it faster and less likely to freeze up at times.

Linky?

This is the time it's set for:

Thu Aug 14 8:00pm CDT

If that doesn't work for everyone, we need to settle on a draft slot fast because they fill up like crazy.

Are we setup? Three more days. Got a link and such? I'm ready to prepare. I guess I get the first pick.....right?

I'd like to point something out:

Topic: OO off line for a short time  (Read 63433 times)

Two things; the phrase "short time" after 44 pages is clearly subjective; I equate short time to going out to get groceries ... and two, we're fast approaching the sixteenth character in binary for views in this thread.

So? It isn't offline anymore. The thread has become about so much more. I make special trips here for the sole purpose of checking it. The number of views is just a reflection of my immense popularity and near celebrity status. It has been rumored that the R&P8 was nothing more than my future disciples.


 

They must be testing it this morning, or someones just being a dick. The site is painfully slow, anyway.

Could have been all the admins testing the issues reported.
You know each of us would have to test and see it for ourselves.

We will make adjustments and it will get better. Considering the magnitude of the upgrade I am surprised we haven't ran into more issues.

Knock on wood!

You lied about your birthday when you registered at OO?


OMFG!!!


Where did that bannanation button go?

From orbit BABY!



 

OO is run on a VM?  That's kinda impressive!

Yes, I use VMware for everything I can now. Makes it so easy to backup and migrate across hardware I can't resist. The server OO is on could die and I would be able to have it back up in no time. Virtual is the only way!

Actually he and Miltonite are at my house right now. We are trying to get the gameserver to start a CSS server. Not everyone has TF2. I moved to cable internet so we have 20ms pings to the server from my house now.

I am having a birthday party for my son today so hadn't noticed it was down. The VM was unresponsive so I rebooted and it seems to be back up. I will be looking into what happened tonight after the party.

Rip

nooooooooooooo!

You can co-own my team.


So anyway when is the draft etc?

I was hoping you meant Rush Limbaugh when I clicked on this post.....

and here I thought I would be alone in that desire. If he can get Limbaugh you couldn't pay me to miss it. With Colbert in character it would be like Limbaugh being on Hannity's show. The conservative answer to Beavis and Butthead!

Not to worry. His account is inactive now I think. He will need to bow to the great ones to get back in. Nothing prettier than CeeKay on his knees.

bah, CeeKay bows to know one, not even CeeKay.

So what are you doing on your knees then?

 

Not to worry. His account is inactive now I think. He will need to bow to the great ones to get back in. Nothing prettier than CeeKay on his knees.

We are bumping forum uglies. Actually we just moved a couple DNS servers and had a screwup that dropped us and we rebooted during troubleshooting. All is well though, we also just got a few new servers in and will move the OO VM to one of them next week unless we discover some hardware issues with it. Seems GT and OO are on some twisted linked path across space and time.

If we start running some gameserver stuff will Ron?

here we go again?

OO is down for me, same for you?

Working fine for me.

Is it possible to delete my OO account, and all my posts?

You'd have to ask the moderation staff. They have never been fond of such requests as I recall however. Not afraid Obama is going to come after you for being a Hillary supporter are you?

Actually I am thinking of asking that my logo at the top of the forum be changed to throw rotations of "Firends/Foes of OO banners. Showing a banner for sites like GT. Of course limited by sites giving permission and providing a satisfactory banner.

If this thread dies off someone will have to start a "OO off line for a short time off line for a short time" thread at OO.  Then the circle will be complete.

Note to self, change thread title to "OO online for a short time."

 

A perfect example of why you are my kind of guy. Your sense of humor is a virtual duplicate of mine. I need to figure out an way acceptable to everyone else to provide obvious links to you guys and all our other "sluttly little sister sites" around the web. I do so enjoy it when I find the time to make rounds and check all you guys out.

Odd... it's not back for me. I still get the Temporary Outage page.

Could be your isp caching the dns too long. Try the link with the IP address above.

It's awesome that OO is back up, but I won't be leaving here. I'm officially a bi-forum poster (well, tri-forum poster once I get home at night and can access Popehat). I'm afraid Ceekay won't be rid of me. 

I always said you were bi but "noone" believed me.

It logs me out every time I try to post from the iPhone.  That sucks.

No, Apple sucks!

I guess fishpants gave away he was the guy, without being obvious.

Anyway anyone not wanting to wait for the domain to be repointed can use their hosts file to point www.octopusoverlords.com to 98.175.67.242

 

that kid looks awfully young to have a goatee....

I wouldn't suggest getting on his bad side by questioning his manhood.