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« on: December 27, 2006, 01:26 »
This forum can be down for about half an hour (hopefully not more) per day in next several days. This is because of the server maintenance, and since the server is located on the opposite side of the Earth for most of you (Wink), and the maintenance appears to be at midnights... this can happen in the middle of the day. I apologise for any inconvenience. Smile
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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2006, 09:21 »
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2006, 16:16 »
Where is the server? Mines in Dallas. Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2006, 16:22 »
Moscow Smile We were hosted at DreamHost before, but it was very slow and/or buggy, so I decided to move.
Sometimes it's good to use several different servers. Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2006, 16:31 »
Heh. You know. I would love to have a server in my own bedroom.

Does a local webserver count? Wink
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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2006, 16:40 »
Nope, otherwise I'd say I have three - Apache 1.3, Apache 2 and Tomcat. Smile
Having a server in your room can be annoying... imagine yourself waking up in the middle of the night just to stop another hacking attempt or to install another patch while most of your visitors are asleep. Wink
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« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2006, 16:41 »
The life of a Server Admin. Tongue hehe.
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« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2006, 19:57 »
Ah, we'll live... Tongue

@ Gary: Having a server in your bedroom sucks. They make a lot of noise most of the time. Especially when you want a cheap server. Buying decent silent stuff for a bedroom server isn't even worth it, unless you really use your server a lot.

I use WAMP on my PC and laptop for testing and development purposes. It's a lot easier than having to install and configure Apache, PHP and MySQL all by yourself. Tongue
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« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2006, 22:18 »
@ Gary: Having a server in your bedroom sucks. They make a lot of noise most of the time. Especially when you want a cheap server. Buying decent silent stuff for a bedroom server isn't even worth it, unless you really use your server a lot.
Agreed. I built a rather silent PC myself, and it's almost inaudible over the day, i. e. when I'm listening to music or something like this (I always listen to music the whole day Wink ). But even if I'm able to sleep with it switched on, it's getting annoying, and I don't sleep very well with that buzzing sound. If I had a server, I'd place it in another room at least.
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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2006, 15:02 »
I use WAMP on my PC and laptop for testing and development purposes. It's a lot easier than having to install and configure Apache, PHP and MySQL all by yourself. Tongue

I have XAMPP, which is similiar to your thing, Apache, PHP, MySQL and it also came with phpMyAdmin configured, all I had to do was install SMF. Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2006, 17:14 »
D'oh!

Okay, this issue was just terrible. The forum was down for half the day because of those stupid maintenances Sad
And it happened right in the New Year night - still cannot believe my luck. The server is still down, though, so I've temporarily moved everything to the previous hosting until they fix that. If you can see this message, then the correct DNS is already propagated for you. I just hope this happened before the midnight on your side... and the attachments still aren't available until I reupload them all.

I'm really sorry about all that, guys! :'( That's not how I wanted to meet the New Year, honestly...
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« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2006, 17:26 »
Aw...no need to apologise, these things happen!   Anyway, as you can see it's working for me now and there's still about 6 and half hours before the new year here in the UK!
Anyway, I'll say Happy New Year as some of us will already be in it and given the high winds we're getting over here at the moment and the fact that the electricity supply in my area is a bit sensitive, I can't guarantee I'll be online come midnight.  Smile
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« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2006, 22:08 »
Dont worry Serge Smile

To be honest, I'm sure most people will be with their families on this occasion. My family just happens to be online Wink

(I need to get drunk, and a life... aye aye aye....)
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« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2007, 00:41 »
Well, right now, I am drunk (sort of), so no worries indeed. Wink It's not your fault that the hosting companies are acting up, and hey, we can live a day or two without the forum, can't we? Thanks for all the extra effort, much appreciated. Smile
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« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2007, 02:17 »
Thanks people... to be honest, I was really depressed about that. Maybe it's not a big thing after all.
But I'm glad the forum is alive again...
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« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2007, 06:29 »
Time will slow some people down on this site, but I don't believe that a few hosting issues will stop this site from flourishing.
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2007, 10:15 »
I'm moving LTS to another hosting again... DreamHost works extremely slow Confused
And since that new server worked well for all that time, I believe it will be the better choice.
Hopefully, I'll do all the needed stuff today. DSL rules Tongue

Update: Done. If you can see this line, you see the forum on the new location. Smile
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2007, 20:07 »
Good job! And thanks, it's way faster now Smile
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« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2007, 08:35 »
LTS can be down today for several hours. Some kind of a maintenance is planned in the data centre. Sorry Smile
*makes forum database backup and synchronizes the attachments folder*
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« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2007, 10:24 »
Aaand another issue. LTS was down for several hours today. Embarrassed
If anyone's interested in the details, the server ran out of free space, so several files (configuration ones mainly) have truncated to zero, and database experienced problems too Rolls Eyes Hopefully, nothing has lost.

* Dagdamor hugs server Tongue
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« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2007, 10:28 »
That sounds kind of unprofessional. Tongue
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« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2007, 12:52 »
I had just pressed the post button to a lengthy review before it went... oppsie.
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Ah well, got the system back quick enough. Good call Sergei!
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« Reply #22 on: April 24, 2007, 21:25 »
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So, you've lost it after all? Damn Sad I'm sorry about that...

People, please use decent browsers, not Internet Explorer which doesn't even allow you to go back to the previous page and to save your post somewhere else in such situations! I'm personally using Opera. There is no other way to avoid things like that. I'm not talking about your security in the Net, which is awful if you use IE.
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« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2007, 23:46 »
Well currently I am using Mozilla Firefox. It's more secure than IE, yeah, although at times it freezes up and I have to restart the program... which can be bad news if you're in the middle of a post. Other than that though, it works fine.
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« Reply #24 on: April 25, 2007, 14:46 »
I, personally, write long posts in notepad, with calm, even dividing in more parts of the day Smile then i open the forum and copy/paste. It's by far the safest method Big Grin
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« Reply #25 on: April 25, 2007, 18:20 »
Yep, that's a very good idea.   If I've written a long post online, I'll tend to select and copy the text before I hit the post button as at least I've got a chance of being able to re-paste what I've written if things do go wrong.   Mind you, with Firefox you can usually get back to the previous screen so this doesn't tend to be too much of a problem.
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« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2007, 23:42 »
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Heh, I hadn't even thought of that... perhaps I should start doing that.

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Usually when my browser freezes, my only option is to end it. I get the "Program Not Responding" message. Do you use Firefox? And if so, do you encounter these problems at all?
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Look at that hand lying there
The room is dark, she shows no fear
I'm lying still, my eyes are wide
My heart is pumping, I'm still alive

I'm still awake against my will
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« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2007, 13:35 »
I use Internet Explo..! *stabbed*

It works fine with me, as long as I dont press back. I just pressed the post button then it said 'Page Couldnt be Found!' or some, bollocks. Anyway, doesnt matter now, will post it again later!
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« Reply #28 on: June 03, 2007, 18:01 »
Same thing, once again.
The server was down for several hours (most of the day actually), so I temporarily moved everything to another hosting. Right now our Shrine or Lisaness seems to work again. Smile As soon as the problem is fixed and the original server goes back up, I'll move everything back.
Now, let's post! Big Grin

* Dagdamor is very glad to see LTS online again
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« Reply #29 on: June 03, 2007, 20:04 »
Yay, Welcome back to LTS, and thanks for the nice patch-up work you do everytime, Serge! Smile
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« Reply #30 on: June 03, 2007, 21:04 »
Cheers and welcome back to the land of the living, LTS! Smile

* GeorgeHarrison raises a wine glass
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« Reply #31 on: June 06, 2007, 07:40 »
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Thanks Smile

Everyone
Since the original server seems to work alright now, I'm moving everything back today.
The forum can be down for some time, although I'll try to make it smooth.
UPDATE: All done. Smile
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« Reply #32 on: November 11, 2007, 21:18 »
LTS has experienced strong problems today, again... something happened with the datacenter channel. I'm not sure this won't happen again, but hopefully, it's all good now.

Thankfully, the chatroom is on the different server Tongue

<MPfreeUK> mebbe lisa getting to tired of hugs so takes it offline to have a rest heh heh
<Suusje> Lisa-simpson.net also turned into a "beautiful young woman" :P
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<Suusje> Bart said that to Lisa when she was turned into a snail
<@Dagdamor> really, it's slow :D lol
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« Reply #33 on: November 11, 2007, 21:48 »
Yeah, I noticed it, but apparently, no damage was done.

LOL @ the chat log.  Big Grin
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« Reply #34 on: November 11, 2007, 22:21 »
* @Dagdamor is slow too

At least you admit it. Tongue
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