I am distraught, I was writing my finest piece, an apic of put downs and rapier wit combinedā¦
You too?
It put paid to my points per post average!
I would have been up there with the best* of themā¦
* in the loosest sense of the word.
Iām not sure what an āapicā is but I feel for your loss
Thank fuckā¦ I was in the midddle of what would have turned out to be a complete turd (papslang) of a post, my worst yet
Good to see normal service is resumed then
Sorry about the downtime. Another process on that box was slowing everything else down
I think we had our biggest outage ever today. Wasnāt just us. The whole of hostinguk was down, something of a fucking PR disaster for them, as it turns out that just like us, they are buying their capacity from someone else.
That someone else had major problemos.
Crap service from the hosts, really. Their tech support line just went straight to a dead tone. Crossword Solver, presumably a site that shares space with Sotonians, aptly sent a lot of cross words their way, which is why I didnāt.
All good now. Hopefully a reminder of not knowing what youāve got until itās gone.
I call a Sotonians meeting over this to brainstorm ways to extend this PR disaster to express how 7 middle-aged men couldnāt post! This is an outrage. As proposee (new word bletch) I set the venue as Mordenā¦ If not Wimbledonā¦ 3rd option Wetherspoonās Eastleigh if beer and expenses included.
What about the Semi-Final, Tokes? Ideal opportunity.
Iāll let you off @pap , I think my employers actually appreciated my heightened output for themā¦
Has anyone started a semi final meet up thread yet? I refuse as I will not be drinking
Iām still undecided about going yetā¦
Wealdstone FC at Ruislip for our coach of pissheads. Short tube ride to Wem-ber-lee.
How so?
Cost? Travelling time? And Iāll be at the Bournemouth home game so i feel guilty about leaving the kids with Mrs Btripz for 2 days in 6ā¦
Most of this is outweighed by the exceptional company and the chance of a showing from @barry-sanchez and @tokyo-saint ā¦
I would recommmend buying your ticket. Either use it or sell it.
Oh you know Iām going to be thereā¦is there such a thing as pre-buyers remorse?
Central London / Waterloo for pre beers surely?!
OK, that was a biggy!
Our hosting provider (Hostinguk.net - feel free to troll them on Twitter) had a massive outage from about 9 pm last night.
Apparently, and I shit you not, a fibre cable that had been run under a farmerās field was cut. I
mean, farmers digging up a field, whoād have predicted that?
Anyway, we are up again BUT WE MAY STILL EXPERIENCE MORE DOWNTIME as this is a temporary overground fix.
What is really strange about this is that hosting companies build redundancy into each area of their operations so that if one part fails another one will kick in until full service can be restored. It SEEMS as though Hosting UK did have multiple fibre routes to their data centre, but they all went under farmer Gilesā field.
If youāre a geek, or are particularly warped, hereās the whole brutal saga. See here for continued updates.