[TechGuy]

Well, I have no idea what caused it... but the database got corrupt. We're up and running again now, though, after far too many hours of repairing it! I honestly can't even remember when it went down now...

[plschwartz]

many thanks for your hard work. There was beginning to be a line of Random junkies forming

[pyritechips]

Hi Mike!

It went down about 6 hours ago. Thanks for the hard work and dedication. It's good to be back.

~Jim

[anlore2001]

Darn, Jim beat me to it... about 5:30 EST

[TechGuy]

After I wrote that, I looked and found a post at 6:01PM Eastern... so I guess it was just over 5 hours... my, where has the night gone?

[brendandonhu]

Thx for fixing it mike
Sweets and I were in chat about 10 minutes before it went down, and she complained that TSG was going really slow, then I got booted from chat and couldn't get in.

[pyritechips]

my, where has the night gone?

See, Mike? Spend all last night in TSG chat singing songs and TSG goes all to heck!! That'll teach you to slack off!

I realized that after forums.techguy.org wouldn't load and helponthe.net gave me a 404 error. I was wondering how that happened. How'd you repair the DB?

HexStar

P.S. I bet it was those hacking kids that once before hijacked your site.

[TechGuy]

After trying all of the easy stuff first, it was a painful process of exporting the WHOLE database and then bringing it back table-by-table... lots of fun, but it worked!

Geese, if I were you I would go to bed now and relax. That sounds so stressful.

HexStar

[hewee]

Wow maybe it was to many people being here?

Most users ever online was 894 on 06-17-2003 at 11:43 AM

[Gary R]

Hi ....

The page listing the Forums came up just fine, but when I clicked on "Downtime Tonight" to find out what'd happened, the computer locked up. Had to hit reset.

[TechGuy]

That "most users ever" doesn't seem to have taken place any time near the trouble, so I doubt it's related... although pretty sweet anyway!

Gary, might want to do the regular checks for spyware and updates... nothing should be able to lock up your computer!

[eddie5659]

Its good to see its back, though you must be tired, as its 9am here, I have no idea what time it is there.

Also, I hit the roof when it happened. Spent ages typing out a lengthy reply to someone, hit Submit, gone. Luckily, I'd copied it, as I always do for long replies

I've noticed its a bit slow this morning, but thats to be expected. But, then it may be the works server.

eddie

[TechGuy]

It's 4:30am here... Time for me to head to bed.