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Sunday, July 14th, 2002
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7:40 am - faq updates.
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| Tuesday, June 18th, 2002
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9:59 pm - What Happened
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Around 3:00pm or so, most of you probably were getting some tweaky database errors about logtext being full (or some crap like that).. In an attempt for me to pull DJ out of the gutter, about 3.5 million entries got deleted when the table (logtext) decided to corrupt itself and die....
Now, in the past, I was doing database backups every morning (which is why DJ was down from like midnight PST to around 2-3am PST).. I got *lots* of complaints about that from people, so I decided to run backups three times a week (to lessen the load).. Well, I guess this bit me in the ass.... I had to restore from the backups made monday morning..
So, heres some questions you may have:
Q: Is everything that I posted from monday morning to the crash gone for good?
A: Yes, unfortunally.. I lost plenty of crap too that I am quite pissed about (feelings before boards, how I felt after I took my exam this morning, etc)..
Q: Will this ever happen again?
A: Computers will be computers.. Your computer doesnt stay up for 24/7 without glitches.. Especially when you have a quarter of a million people accessing it daily.. How can I prevent this in the future? Running morning backups like I was before and telling the people who bitch to just F-Off.. For the time being, I spent the extra time and configured the database for about 100 million possible entries.. that should put is well in the clear..
Q: Cant you do anything else?
A: Unfortunally no.. I can only say that I am sorry this happened, and are damn grateful that I spent the hours setting up a backup server to make backups of all of your journals.. Without those, you all would of lost everything (and DJ would become extinct)..
The next code revision is going to allow clustering, which should bring some new and revised features to DJ..
I am truly sorry that you all lost journal entries.. I feel horrible about what has happened.. I wish I could afford redundant servers, but at the present time I have to be happy with what I have.
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| Wednesday, February 13th, 2002
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9:08 pm
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| Monday, February 4th, 2002
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10:06 pm - Planned New DB Server for DJ
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Hi everyone,
Here is the specs for the new main DB server for DJ.. Once this gets put online, the directory *should* work, as well as make the site zippity fast! So sign up now, because im going to be major broke once I buy this server.. :) Once this server gets put online, there might be a few hours of downtime while I move all the content over.. No ETA on when I'm going to buy this, but its going to be very very soon..
<SCSi-Home> System: Lancelot 1400-S
<SCSi-Home> $4359/each
<SCSi-Home> Supermicro P3TDLR Dual FC-PGA, Serverworks Serverset III LE, UDMA/33
<SCSi-Home> Integrated Dual-Port Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet
<SCSi-Home> Integrated Adaptec 7892 Ultra 160/m SCSI
<SCSi-Home> Integrated ATI Rage XL 8MB
<SCSi-Home> 2 x Intel Pentium III-S 1.40GHz, 133mhz, 512K L2 cache
<SCSi-Home> 4GB PC-133 ECC Registered, CAS-3 (1GBx4)
<SCSi-Home> 2 x IBM Ultrastar 36LZX 18.2GB, 10K rpm, Ultra 160/m SCSI, 4MB cache
<SCSi-Home> Panasonic 24X slim CDROM, black bezel
<SCSi-Home> 1U Rackmount, 2 SCA-2 HD,1x64-bit/33/66MHz PCI slot,sliding rail,250W ATX PS
<SCSi-Home> 1.44MB floppy drive, black bezel
<SCSi-Home> Red Hat Linux 7.2 standard, CD & Manuals
<SCSi-Home> 1 Year Warranty and Technical Support
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