Bradley Molzen 
VinoCellar.com Admin
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5097
 | | 02-20-2007 02:19 AM |
| Well, imagine that... Vinocellar.com is up and running without a hitch for at least 6 months straight, perhaps longer... then I decide to go on vacation to the 4th Anniversary Vinocellar.com celebration weekend in Sonoma California, and the operating system decides to take a dump.... just about 12 hours into my 4 day vacation. Amazing!
Well, obviously we are back up, and after a small restore of a file or two all is well. No posts were lost... (if you aren't counting all the posts that WOULD have happened this weekend).
Very sorry for the downtime... perhaps it was a sign... you should've all been in Sonoma with us! :-)
- Brad | | | If you drink wine, you get smarter.... |
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Serge Dracula Slayer
South Florida
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 663
| | 02-20-2007 02:20 AM |
| Murphy's law at it's best..... | | | http://NothingControversial.com | |
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Bradley Molzen
VinoCellar.com Admin
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5097
| | 02-20-2007 03:34 AM |
| Ok, so the problem went deeper than originally anticipated. I'll always preach about having good backups. In this case, they were certainly needed. I had to do a full operating system restore. Again, no data or posts were lost.... but I have some clean up work to do this weekend. So there may be some planned downtime, but I will try to give some notice.
We are back up again, and I'm not going to touch it further for a little while.
- Brad | | | If you drink wine, you get smarter.... | |
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Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
Posts: 11429
| | 02-20-2007 03:44 AM |
| Backups are good. I learned that this year when one of my hard drives croaked. | | | |
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RawReds
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 646
| | 02-20-2007 02:50 PM |
| Brad is my hero! | | | |
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dinwiddie
Barrel Sampler
Posts: 2215
| | 02-20-2007 04:52 PM |
| Glad it is back. Had a three day weekend and was jonesing hard. | | | |
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Al HooKoo
Las Vegas, NV
Wine Thief
Posts: 2639
| | 02-20-2007 08:42 PM |
| Quote:
Had a three day weekend and was jonesing hard
me too....  | | | |
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Bradley Molzen
VinoCellar.com Admin
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5097
| | 02-21-2007 06:48 AM |
| What's really interesting... is the Google logs show 3 page views on Sunday.... It was down the entire 24 hours of that day. Must've been cached pages. *shrug*
Overall however, since the beginning of the new year, page views are up about 20 to 25% !! Today was a whopper at over 50%. I'm glad everyone came back after that unfortunate downtime.
I've since given my brother a key to the house so he can come over and reboot the server when I'm away. | | | If you drink wine, you get smarter.... | |
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winebrat
Sacramento, Ca.
Wine Lover
Posts: 4571
| | 02-24-2007 07:27 AM |
| What the heck were you thinking leaving the server alone. Next time you should hire a sitter when you are away. This is our life you know  | | | "Everyday is worthy of a glass of sparkling wine" - Andrea Immer MS | |
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Bradley Molzen
VinoCellar.com Admin
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5097
| | 02-24-2007 04:04 PM |
| | | | If you drink wine, you get smarter.... | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 30986
| | 02-24-2007 08:40 PM |
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What the heck were you thinking leaving the server alone. Next time you should hire a sitter when you are away. This is our life you know
You're the last one who should be complaining. You were a whole hour away from the "live" forum.
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Bradley Molzen
VinoCellar.com Admin
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5097
| | 02-24-2007 11:23 PM |
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You're the last one who should be complaining. You were a whole hour away from the "live" forum.
*gasp* | | | If you drink wine, you get smarter.... | |
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