šŸ’¤ Unscheduled downtime

We lost the server for a little while earlier.

Apologies.

It was out of our control but @pap contacted the hosting provider and pulled the ā€œDonā€™t you know Iā€™m the lead singer with Early Doors?ā€ card and they got us up and running again.

3 Likes

Having said that the server was back up, it went down again.

Apparently @pap pulled the ā€œDonā€™t you know Iā€™m the lead singer with Early Doors?ā€ card and they turned the server off.

Some people have no taste.

Iā€™m guessing that we could have some further loss of the server today too.

1 Like

When you told me you had server issues, I presumed one of your personal waitresses had finally succumbed to some random STD.

I am distraught, I was writing my finest piece, an apic of put downs and rapier wit combinedā€¦

3 Likes

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.

Iā€™m not sure what an ā€œapicā€ is but I feel for your loss

:lou_wink_2:

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

2 Likes

Good to see normal service is resumed then

:lou_wink_2:

1 Like

Sorry about the downtime. Another process on that box was slowing everything else down

I think we had our biggest outage ever today. Wasnā€™t 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 didnā€™t.

All good now. Hopefully a reminder of not knowing what youā€™ve got until itā€™s gone.

6 Likes

I call a Sotonians meeting over this to brainstorm ways to extend this PR disaster to express how 7 middle-aged men couldnā€™t post! This is an outrage. As proposee (new word bletch) I set the venue as Mordenā€¦ If not Wimbledonā€¦ 3rd option Wetherspoonā€™s Eastleigh if beer and expenses included.

6 Likes

What about the Semi-Final, Tokes? Ideal opportunity.

3 Likes

Iā€™ll let you off @pap , I think my employers actually appreciated my heightened output for themā€¦

2 Likes

Has anyone started a semi final meet up thread yet? I refuse as I will not be drinking :lou_angry:

Iā€™m still undecided about going yetā€¦

Wealdstone FC at Ruislip for our coach of pissheads. Short tube ride to Wem-ber-lee.

1 Like

How so?

1 Like

Cost? Travelling time? And Iā€™ll 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€¦

1 Like

I would recommmend buying your ticket. Either use it or sell it.

2 Likes

1 Like