12pm update

ok, the drive corrupted our database, fortunatelly we do have backups. Unfortunatelly they are on a drive not attached to the machine. Our favorite tech is on it, it might be a few more hours. I will not know as I'm going to try to catch some sleep. I have contacted some dopes/mods and one of them will pick the issue to make sure it gets worked on through the night.

11pm

the board may look up but it's not - tables are stil seriously corrupt. we may have to fallback

williams head case, it was nice having you here by the way

10pm

they're still restoring... the issue remains that there was a bad disk and the restoration process has had a few setbacks. we could restore from backup.... but we've been down for long enough so I figure it's worth it to atleast attempt to do it right.

9pm

they're still working on things, just spoke with them 15 minutes ago.

no, i'm not making excuses for them... they suck but the unfortunate reality is we're stuck with them atleast in the short-term

5:20pm

Comment from our hosting provider

Need 1 to 2 more hours...database is HUGE

4pm update

all software is updated and final tweaks are being made. this is where we see how our database fared through all of this, so this could take 5 minutes or 5 hours.

While we do that, MySpace users feel free to join the SoSH group there

http://tinyurl.com/mwb2e

3:30pm

rebuild still underway.

- nip

why not?

sosh is down, my hands are tied, here's some boobies to tide you over!

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quick request

if you know folks who don't know about this blog then please point them in this direction as this is the only place that updates will be made available.

just got off a follow-up call with the salesfolks at our host. They have installed the new hard disk and are aiting for the OS/data reimage. This should take approximately 2 hours. A very fair eta is 5pm edt, but i'm guessing we beat that

12:30 update

confirmed it is a bad disk. instead of these off/on problems i am having them replace all of the hardware. eta to get back up is before 5pm

- nip

10am

Most recent and very full update

Last night the server went down in typical fashion. Over the past few weeks we have been isolating the cause of these outages. Each outage we're replaing a new piece of equipment.

This most recent crash was hard on our database, I believe the actual disk our database is living on is corrupt. We ar ecurrently awaiting our host to replace the motherboard on our server. They are taking their time -- bad for them as it's giving us opportunity to investigate contingencies (i.e. move to another provider).

I'd love to say t'these things happen' but they really shouldn't. Upon moving away from ezboard we were running on the latest and greatest machine and did not think it could go south this quick. Our upgrade designs which were going to be implemented in the offseason are obviously being accelerated. We hope to complete the upgrade, which is more of a total overhaul, within the month. This will include geographic diversity (which would have taken care of the ddos attacks from a few weeks ago)

again, we apologize. we're all putting off our real lives and real jobs a smuc has is feasible to get this up and running. my wife is pissed! ;)

nip

Still Down 8am

There are hardware issues that have to be fixed. No ETA for SoSH to be up.

-Brandon

6/21/2006

sigh... just got home from work and see that cpu is at 100% on the server for no apparent reason. requested a reboot from data center.

don't worry folks, we're doing our best at getting new hardware in here, this shouldnt be like this for much longer

6/18/06 3:00pm

network problems persist. 35+ servers are down at our host. no eta

6/18/2006 1:35

stll working on bringing up the network. these people are schmucks

nip

6/18/2006 1:05pm

Network issues related to the folks in the data center installing some new ewquipment which will hopefully help prevent future malicious attacks . eta unknown

6/18, 9:30

Back up

6/18 9am

SoSH appears to be down. Not sure of the issue at this moment.

-Brandon

6/17/2006

The issues are network-related at the data center

6/17/2006

appears to be a hardware issue , still investigating

6-17-2006

down, no idea why. looking into

nip

SoSH Update

creating this blog in the event that sonsofsamhorn.net is down. Thanks to PaulM for the direction and the many helpful memebers who suggested something like this.

-nip