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Recent Storm2k Outage

#1 Postby hurricanes1234 » Sat Nov 02, 2013 2:33 pm

I know many, including myself, are curious as to what happened for the past two or three days when Storm2k displayed a 'General Error' upon viewing any thread on the website. Was it something terrible or major that happened? The message said that there was a MySQL error, and that something was wrong with a socket. What does MySQL mean? What took place for the error to have materialised? Is it an error that can happen all the time? I get really depressed when Storm2k is down, especially when a storm or depression is active. :( Thanks.
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#2 Postby cycloneye » Sat Nov 02, 2013 2:50 pm

Yes,we are back after three days. :) The admins will tell the whole deal about what happened.
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#3 Postby WeatherGuesser » Sat Nov 02, 2013 4:06 pm

hurricanes1234 wrote:What does MySQL mean?

Search engines are wonderful things:

MySQL officially ( ... ) is (as of July 2013) the world's second most widely used open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL

Basically, it's what makes Forums like this work, but it goes much farther.

I'm guessing either the SQL server crashed or the database itself got corrupted. Both happen. I was just surprised that the root HTML Index Page was never updated with any status messages.
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#4 Postby Cyclenall » Sat Nov 02, 2013 5:14 pm

This was by far the longest outage I've ever seen on here. The previous longest was one day I think, this was from late Wednesday to Saturday...a trick for Halloween.
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#5 Postby vbhoutex » Sat Nov 02, 2013 5:28 pm

There will be a general announcement made when we have everything worked out. That I promise. We are still dealing with a few issues, but the site is back up and running and that is what is important.
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#6 Postby hurricanes1234 » Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:31 am

vbhoutex wrote:There will be a general announcement made when we have everything worked out. That I promise. We are still dealing with a few issues, but the site is back up and running and that is what is important.



I was worried that it wouldn't come back. :(
But it did. :)
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#7 Postby Gustywind » Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:34 am

cycloneye wrote:Yes,we are back after three days. :) The admins will tell the whole deal about what happened.

:) Waouw, that was so long 3 days without this board :( . Hopefully we're here, back again :D
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#8 Postby Stephanie » Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:57 pm

Yep, we all need our "s2k fix". :D
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#9 Postby Gustywind » Sun Nov 03, 2013 10:20 pm

Stephanie wrote:Yep, we all need our "s2k fix". :D

:cheesy: :lol: sure, you're right!
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#10 Postby AnnularCane » Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:19 pm

Some topics seem to stay "unread" even after reading them.
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#11 Postby euro6208 » Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:35 am

I really thought my laptop was infected with some kind of virus that i scanned thoroughly with many virus/malware scanners but found nothing. Then i thought, if i had a virus, why is it that only this website is having problems?

Then i figured that maybe it's the website that was having problems lol :lol:

like so many others, i was very depressed and 3 days seems like a year to me...
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#12 Postby lurkey » Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:29 pm

Reminder: When Storm2k is down, you can find updates from the admins/mods on Storm2k.org Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/165085193521199/. Also, you can drop into chat #storm2k and find updates in the Topic.
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Re: Recent Storm2k Outage

#13 Postby Stephanie » Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:54 am

lurkey wrote:Reminder: When Storm2k is down, you can find updates from the admins/mods on Storm2k.org Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/165085193521199/. Also, you can drop into chat #storm2k and find updates in the Topic.


Thank you for posting this! :)
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