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I wanted to give an update to everyone on whats going on with the board.
Yesterday at about 3:45 the colo facility that our hosting provider uses shut all his servers down without warning. They claimed that 2 of his servers were sending out excessive spam and that Hotmail had reported them. They claimed that over 40k emails were sent out to hotmail customer which in the grand scheme of things for 100 forums isnt much.
TurboBuick alone was responsible for almost half of those emails. Ive looked through the logs and we have a lot of hotmail users.
So after being down almost 24 hours, they finally agreed to power the servers back up. However, our provider has had enough with these guys. We've had several instances of downtime here that wasnt our hosting providers fault, it was the colo's fault and this is a prime example. Our hoster will be moving to another facility today which is going to take us down again for a bit. We should be one of the first forums he moves and Ive asked him to snapshot the server and then null route the IP so we dont lose data. I expect the move to go quickly but the downtime will come from waiting for DNS to propagate.
The mobile app will also not work during that time and may take a bit longer to come back up for the IOS people as their DNS servers seem slow to update.
Sorry about all this but hopefully at the end of the day it will be a positive move.
Yesterday at about 3:45 the colo facility that our hosting provider uses shut all his servers down without warning. They claimed that 2 of his servers were sending out excessive spam and that Hotmail had reported them. They claimed that over 40k emails were sent out to hotmail customer which in the grand scheme of things for 100 forums isnt much.
TurboBuick alone was responsible for almost half of those emails. Ive looked through the logs and we have a lot of hotmail users.
So after being down almost 24 hours, they finally agreed to power the servers back up. However, our provider has had enough with these guys. We've had several instances of downtime here that wasnt our hosting providers fault, it was the colo's fault and this is a prime example. Our hoster will be moving to another facility today which is going to take us down again for a bit. We should be one of the first forums he moves and Ive asked him to snapshot the server and then null route the IP so we dont lose data. I expect the move to go quickly but the downtime will come from waiting for DNS to propagate.
The mobile app will also not work during that time and may take a bit longer to come back up for the IOS people as their DNS servers seem slow to update.
Sorry about all this but hopefully at the end of the day it will be a positive move.
So I sat and watched TV with the wife
Ummm she asked if you could give HER more warning when that happens.
