Lavo 786 July 9, 2015 Share July 9, 2015 Hey Ponies,First off we, the techpones, would like to apologise for the large amount of downtime over the past 24 hours (2015-07-07 to 2015-07-08), this is unacceptable. We’ve made a note of what caused a simple migration of a server to slow it down to impeccably slow times. Should we need to migrate a server like this one again, we’ll ensure our experience here makes it sail along without anyone noticing.To give some context into why this was needed, pretty much all downtime events, including EQTV channel corruption, last month were caused by storage related issues; We just kept running out of space. So on saturday, we acquired a new server to alleviate this issue. This new server was added to our cluster and we performed a live migration of our data to the new server; This took quite a bit of time.The migration of data started at 11:29AM (UTC-8) on 2015-07-04 and finished at 13:46 (UTC-8) on 2015-07-07. Whilst this was the bulk of the data done and copied over, a second run was needed to ensure we copied any new data to the new server, however, this required that the old one be shut down so that nothing could be written to it. As it happens, this took much longer than we thought it would due to the sheer amount of files we have on that server. (For a technical reason, feel free to hit me up on this.)Again, we’re extremely sorry that this happened; We never expected the downtime to last for that long. 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deae Rising Shine~ 56,016 July 9, 2015 Share July 9, 2015 CTAM took too much space XD Glad to hear it's alrght now 5 Legends never die. Ponies neither. Rainbow Dash is best pony! Ava made by Pandora^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphys Hedge 671 July 9, 2015 Share July 9, 2015 NO problem. Atleast it's back on at all now 2 Character in profile picture is Pearl from Steven Universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronicleer 31 July 9, 2015 Share July 9, 2015 Thanks for your hard work. I hope no one is giving you or the rest of the team flak. It's a site about My Little Pony, if people are up-in-arms about it being down for a day, they probably need a life. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicSpark 2,120 July 9, 2015 Share July 9, 2015 Its all good At least the server will hold more data now, I would rather the site to go down for 24 hrs to fix the problem than having lots of ongoing issues you guys are awesome to get this done In that time :) 2 Ask Cosmic Spark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yozer247 1,006 July 9, 2015 Share July 9, 2015 gg lavo i certainly hope no re 3 Sig by No DDR machines were harmed in the making of this signature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slendy 2,918 July 10, 2015 Share July 10, 2015 Thanks for letting us know what was happening. Not your fault. Haha. 2 Shadows await you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misty Rose 3,216 July 10, 2015 Share July 10, 2015 Thanks for the heads up, I was pretty concerned about why it was taking so long 2 My OC: http://mlpforums.com...pink-mist-r3726 TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF ME HERE!! Want a sig like this? Check out my thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troblems 5,619 July 10, 2015 Share July 10, 2015 TL;DR: Lavo broke it. I mean uh...Thanks for fixing it! 4 I got an extra hour in the ballpit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Diamond 7,575 July 10, 2015 Share July 10, 2015 We can't be contained. Pure and simple. 4 Domine, tu omnia nosti, tu scis quia amo te. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen Pathfinder 16,162 July 10, 2015 Share July 10, 2015 These things will happen; of course. You can't be expected to know everything that can and will fail; it just happens. No worries though Lavo. 4 Pathfinder I Sojourner I Corsair | Zu'hra I Autumn | Scarlet Willow | Gypsy | Silverthorn | Crystal Whisper | Radiant Historia | And many other OCs~ Matching signatures with mah Bestie MOONLIGHT <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavo 786 July 10, 2015 Author Share July 10, 2015 TL;DR: Lavo broke it. I mean uh...Thanks for fixing it! TL;DR is correct, you can thank @XJ-9 for bringing everything back online when it finished. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeet 2,027 July 10, 2015 Share July 10, 2015 At least you don't have my internet xD It took me about 5 hours to download a 4gb game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenholmZombie 1,330 July 10, 2015 Share July 10, 2015 At least you don't have my internet xD It took me about 5 hours to download a 4gb game. Took me almost twelve hours to download a game from Steam... thanks, DishNET. Anyways, good to see that my favorite website is back online 1 RavenholmZombie - Brony since 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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