Major Downtime? Read on...

Älphämönkëy

Hey All!
First, let me appologize about the downtime. We basically had a series of hardware failures, and it was all I could to do to scramble to keep the mainsite up. At one point I debated setting up the forums to run off of my personal server until the new hardware Robert ordered us arrived. Our Colo guys were really, really nice and basically gave us a loaner box to use until the new hardware arrives. Very nice of them. If you have hosting needs I really would reccomend checking out their site.

So anyway, this is the loaner box, it took us a while to get it, but here it is. I make no promises on everything working fully, but this is the best I could do. I got access to the box at midnight, and it is now 6am. I'm going to crash, when I wake up I'll write more, and if people are interested I'll even tell you about what the future holds for us. But now? Sleep.

-Alpha

scjohnno

You are so awesome, Alpha. :^:

Seta FD

scjohnno wrote:

You are so awesome, Alpha. :^:

We are like, the only active posters.

Älphämönkëy

Okay, one last thing before I go to bed. I got a lot of emails from people sayign thanks for all the hard work. I read every single one. It means a lot more to me than you know...
That said, the hate mail I got was all of the standard variety. There was one piece of correspondence that was a gem that truly sparkled. I thought I would share with you all. Behold!

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From: "Al Kagog" <villagepillageragekage@gmail.com>
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u lil bitch, u have made millionz of people angry. wtf, the PA forums
have been off down for a week, and u keep speaking out "o chill out I
am workin hard, workin hard, workin so hard I get sick" but no, we
still don't got shit and u kno why? Because ur being a lil bitch, u
don't want people to ever post again, that makes me and my lil friends
very angry.once upon a time these forums were so up high in reverence
of crowds, but now... only objections

place in top these forums, or differently you an effort will have from
our iron horse of wars


P.S. if u don't want to take us seriously, consider this fact: if this
message was a bomb u'd already be dead




/1\ /3\ /3\ /7\

Seta FD

alphamonkey wrote:

Okay, one last thing before I go to bed. I got a lot of emails from people sayign thanks for all the hard work. I read every single one. It means a lot more to me than you know...
That said, the hate mail I got was all of the standard variety. There was one piece of correspondence that was a gem that truly sparkled. I thought I would share with you all. Behold!

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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:28:54 -0800
From: "Al Kagog" <villagepillageragekage@gmail.com>
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u lil bitch, u have made millionz of people angry. wtf, the PA forums
have been off down for a week, and u keep speaking out "o chill out I
am workin hard, workin hard, workin so hard I get sick" but no, we
still don't got shit and u kno why? Because ur being a lil bitch, u
don't want people to ever post again, that makes me and my lil friends
very angry.once upon a time these forums were so up high in reverence
of crowds, but now... only objections

place in top these forums, or differently you an effort will have from
our iron horse of wars


P.S. if u don't want to take us seriously, consider this fact: if this
message was a bomb u'd already be dead




/1\ /3\ /3\ /7\

What an asshat.

EDIT: I change my mind, what a dumbass.

Vindicta_

He does make a valid point with the bomb bit... :?

You're awesome Alpha ^_^!!!

yalborap

....

That's fake. I utterly refuse to believe such an idiot and a bastard could ever be born into this world.


Also, alpha, you have my thanks for all the work you did. Most people would have just killed them off for good, but you did some amazing work, and for that you really have my respect.

Wally

Bang up job, as always. :^:

prawnstar69

I Alpha.

Toast

\o/



That said

ZOMG G&T IS TEH GONEEEE!!!!!!!111


Sorry, just had to get that out :P

[edit] Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I fully understand that unrecoverable means unrecoverable, and that it's all MySQL's fault. It's just a bit of a shock

Mr. Yos Mann

Letters to Alpha thread!
Letters to Alpha thread!

PowerLlama

How would that guy not get raped for the way he spells on these forums? No way it can be real.

Mr. Yos Mann

I do hope alpha got the whores-in-a-box I sent him.... alive.
Cause I forgot to give it airholes.

Zsetrek

Thanks Alpha, all of your hard work is much appreciated

#14

Aah it's back. I missed the forums. Thanks Alpha!

Just_Bri_Thanks

It feels good to be back!

Thanks Alpha!

redx

G+T is gone....


ha!

We luv you alpha.

BoomShake

Thanks Alpha for brining our beloved forums back. I was starting to get withdrawl symptoms without it :P I know how hard it is to get stuff like this to work, and I appreciate the time and effort you put into this.

I am curious as to what the future holds.... RoR forums? and now for something completely different?

Armando Penblade

Y'know, it's been a rough couple of months for my creepy reading-from-the-darkness habits. . . first Gamingforce goes down (Then agian, it'd been what, a month since its last reset? We were due. . . ). . . and then PA.

God, next thing you guys tell me, Restricted Section's going down! Erm, no, wait, I mean, Manly Men Doing Women.com. . . err. . . *dash*

P.S. alpha[/url]

yoshamano

hahaha, I think Grammer Rocks is rolling over in it's ABC Saturday Morning grave right now.

Just wanted to add to the pile of thanks for bringing the forums back from the dead.

Hamju

It's just so... so... good to be back.

*sniff*

Thank you Alpha.

Nartwak

Thanks for all the hard work alphamonkey. If you're still sick I hope you get better soon.

Elki

Thank you, Apha!


And love all your April Fool's jokes, but this one got really out of hand. :P

Artoria

Good job on getting the forums back up and running again Alpha! I know how stressful this kind of thing can be.

Also do you know the user account of that Ass-hat? I think a Perma-ban is in order.

Szechuanosaurus

^5

Machismo

OH GOD YES! TEH FORUMS!


Alpha, thanks for the work! You inspired me to learn PostgreSQl. Strangely, my boss talked to me three days later mentioning a project involving database work. WIN!

jogernaut

Forums are back! Thank you Alpha!

Kriz

Thanks Alpha, you're the best.

p.s. Your downtime pages that promised forum nirvana on a future Rails/PostgreSQL system were intriguing. If you ever attempt this feat, please update us on it, I think quite a few forumers would be interested in hearing about it.

pps: enjoy that sleep. you deserve it.

Nibble

Thanks a million, Alpha!

alphamonkey wrote:

Okay, one last thing before I go to bed. I got a lot of emails from people sayign thanks for all the hard work. I read every single one. It means a lot more to me than you know...
That said, the hate mail I got was all of the standard variety. There was one piece of correspondence that was a gem that truly sparkled. I thought I would share with you all. Behold!

u lil bitch, u have made millionz of people angry. wtf, the PA forums
have been off down for a week, and u keep speaking out "o chill out I
am workin hard, workin hard, workin so hard I get sick" but no, we
still don't got shit and u kno why? Because ur being a lil bitch, u
don't want people to ever post again, that makes me and my lil friends
very angry.once upon a time these forums were so up high in reverence
of crowds, but now... only objections

place in top these forums, or differently you an effort will have from
our iron horse of wars


P.S. if u don't want to take us seriously, consider this fact: if this
message was a bomb u'd already be dead




/1\ /3\ /3\ /7\

Is it Obs?

cheXzie

Thank you alpha! <3<3<3

*Phef* I was almost woried that I'd go three weeks playing games instead of talking about them.

BiggNife

YAAAY ALPHA

Dyrwen66

So much love.

Henroid

Alpha, as always, thanks for the work you do for the forum.

Thanatos

So, Alpha, for real, is this the April Fools' Day joke? :P

Seriously, Alpha, thanks for all the hard work. We you. No, wait, we you.

If you weren't actually in Mexico with a bunch of hookers with network admin fetishes like bone daddy claimed, I advise looking into that sometime in the very-near future. You've earned it. :^:

Bbaj

Much for alpha.

flamebroiledchicken

I can't imagine an assclown like that actually being any part of the forum community. I mean, even with all the chaos that is SE++, the people over there still manage to type coherently.

In any case, thanks Alpha for everything. :^: It's good to be back.

Bionic Monkey

I still almost don't believe it. I sat at the forum index for a few seconds just wondering if it was actually real, or if it was going to crash again as soon as I clicked on a subforum. Thank you Alpha. I didn't send you an e-mail (figured you were inundated with them as it was), but I do appreciate all the hard work you put into this forum, even if that downtime did get frustrating.

It actually forced me to subscribe to Netflix and delve into my game backlog for lack of anything better to do.

Senjutsu

Alpha is a Bad Enough Dude to rescue the forums.

Agentflit

waste of air wrote:

if this message was a bomb u'd already be dead

Hooray for alpha!
All together now (all together now)

Douglas

HOORAY

I really missed this place. This is the best forum anywhere.

Captain K

Conventional wisdom might suggest that alphamonkey already knows exactly how much I appreciate his hard work on the forums. But I'm not taking any chances.

alphamonkey, thanks again for all your hard work on the forums.