Server Downtime / Database Errors Tonight

[MotorWorld]

Regarding the server downtime in the last hour or so, and then database errors on most pages once it came back to life:

There was a power / network failure at the datacenter, which caused the server to reboot unexpectedly.. this also corrupted the forum database and perhaps other parts of it too (TBH it was hard to tell when most pages were broken)

I then disabled web access to the site (you would have recieved a 403 / permission denied error if you tried to access the site during this time) to block everyone hammering trying to load pages so that I could run the repair function on the database - now everything seems to be ok, but if you come across any odd errors please report them here

[Strop]

uhmmm....thanksss, i think that it was only with me...:-)

[gatot]

Yep, thanks for the info:-). I own apologize to my admin at the office:ohmy:, I tough he block this site.
I found this one on my thread.
http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=849105#post849105

[xbeakerx]

man you scared me. i thought the site went down for good... dont do that!! lol

[MotorWorld]

Update:

it seems the DNS service on the server crashed too after the original problem and for some reason didn't restart properly when I restarted the main services..

I didn't notice earlier as I still had DNS cached locally on my system so all appeared ok. Went to sleep, and when I woke the site was down.. problem is obviously now resolved

[RC45]

Update:

it seems the DNS service on the server crashed too after the original problem and for some reason didn't restart properly when I restarted the main services..

I didn't notice earlier as I still had DNS cached locally on my system so all appeared ok. Went to sleep, and when I woke the site was down.. problem is obviously now resolved

Can I go to sleep now then? I have been hitting "Refresh" for close to 7 hours now.. and finally the page loaded.

:)

[MotorWorld]

Can I go to sleep now then? I have been hitting "Refresh" for close to 7 hours now.. and finally the page loaded.

:)

why is it i don't think you have that much patience? :-P

[balukka]

I am glad you guys are back, i was started to worry.
And of course i am back in seeding as well.:mrgreen:

[dignews]

Thanks for working so hard to get it back up :)
We love you guys!

[dr vinyl]

thanx for working at getting back.
I didnt get any error messages and was at a loss as to what was going on.. phew..
NiceOne..

[MotorWorld]

hopefully the final update:

downtime in the last hour or so was due to gallery part of the database becoming corrupt and causing the DB to crash.. I've now replaced the corrupt tables with the ones from yesterdays backup, so one or 2 photos might have gone walkies, but otherwise it seems ok now

*fingers crossed, as the server seems determined to give me grief today*

[enzoferrari]

Yea I was getting crazy!!Thanks for the information!!

[k24hybrid]

thanks for the info :thumbup:

man you scared me. i thought the site went down for good... dont do that!! lol
X2

[iceman1981]

Well done to all those who worked to get it back. Even i was concerned about not being able to view the site ..

Cheers, rock it on for F1 this wekeend!!

[kestrel]

thought there was a little problem as file's were not seeding i tryed the norm by refreshing tracker but thought i would what a bit to see if it got fixed we all get problems even the servers thanx for fixing it so quick:detective:

[mackid343]

thanks for the hard work to keep the site up! i almost had withdrawal symptoms :-)