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forum downtime 1/4/2007 10PM EST
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:37 pm
by sroylance
We're going to be doing some maintenance on the forums at 10PM eastern tonight. I don't expect the forums will be offline for more than 15 minutes or so, but it could be as long as an hour.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:29 pm
by king_kilr
Out of curiosity what does maintenance mean for forums?
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:41 pm
by just brew it!
In this case, it means upgrading to a newer version of phpBB, and possibly installing some additional defenses against spammers.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:04 pm
by LicketySplit
just brew it! wrote:In this case, it means upgrading to a newer version of phpBB, and possibly installing some additional defenses against spammers.
That extra help against the spamming weve gotten lately would sure be a welcome addition
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:09 pm
by crazyjediman24
LicketySplit wrote:just brew it! wrote:In this case, it means upgrading to a newer version of phpBB, and possibly installing some additional defenses against spammers.
That extra help against the spamming weve gotten lately would sure be a welcome addition
Agreed, although if anyone could ever come up with a method of spamming that wasn't so blatantly stupid, I might just salute them. But the only way that could happen is if spamming were to stop.....
Oh well.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:48 pm
by sroylance
There were some last minute problems that I missed in my testing and we couldn't get resolved in time to get the upgrade done inside our window. Rather than start the upgrade and cause a potentially lengthy outage, we're going back to the drawing board.
Once we get the issues with the update resolved I will reschedule the downtime.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:06 am
by just brew it!
Heh... I know how stuff like this goes (been in the software/IT field for the better part of 3 decades).
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:13 am
by SecretSquirrel
sroylance wrote:There were some last minute problems that I missed in my testing and we couldn't get resolved in time to get the upgrade done inside our window. Rather than start the upgrade and cause a potentially lengthy outage, we're going back to the drawing board.
Once we get the issues with the update resolved I will reschedule the downtime.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Better to have a false alarm than the alternative. To many times I see folks plow ahead anyway and just make a bigger mess. Much better to say "Stop, it's not going to work. It will be delayed." and get it right. </end IT rant>
--SS