Did DITL forums go down?

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:27 pm

I tried logging on in tutor this morning and it failed.
Then it failed just 10 minutes ago.

Did we have problemos?

Post by **Teaos** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:32 pm

Yip me and Tsu had trouble awhile ago. I had about 2 hours of no service.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:39 pm

well calculating and all that mine was down for bout 5/6 hours

Post by **Mikey** » Thu May 15, 2008 5:30 pm

I was trying to get on for about 2-1/2 hrs this morning and kept getting a "critical error: system debug" message. The main page had no problem - it was just the forum.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:33 pm

Well, it's kept giving me problems for the last hour. Same problem Mikey described.

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:33 pm

Yes it seemed really screwed up last night, and I gave up on it.

Post by **Mikey** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:19 pm

Got back on to post the response above, and then had the same thing again for about an hour.

Post by **IanKennedy** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:27 pm

I wasn't aware of an issue, but I haven't really been looking at the site recently. Seems to be working fine now. I'll ask the ISP.

Post by **IanKennedy** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:32 pm

OK, this is the issue:

Last night we had a problem in which 24 of our servers suffered a sudden loss of power.

All servers are back up now, but there may be lingering issues affecting files that were being accessed during the event.

Post by **Mikey** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:37 pm

Your ISP should invest in a couple of $20 APC backups/power conditioners.

Post by **IanKennedy** » Sun May 18, 2008 1:09 am

Mikey wrote:Your ISP should invest in a couple of $20 APC backups/power conditioners.

Even with those you can still get power issues, batteries can fail after a while. Also they cost a lot more than $20. The kind of UPS that an ISP uses cost about $20,000, requires a three phase power connection and supports a whole bunch of servers. They're also the size of two decent size computer tables.

The ones we use in our server rooms at work cost about $1400 and will provide about 2200VA for about 15mins. They supports about 2 servers and a disk array.

They do have them but, as I say, they're not perfect.