Good to have the forum back...

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

...I was going through withdrawal! I need to get outside more...

 

[rzr]

and i thought i was the only one !!! ;p

 

[Stefan]

Agreed. Some feedback as to what happened would be nice.

Progresstalk has gone down quite a few times lately. I noticed that Chris' other site fast4gl.com was also down during the same period.

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Some feedback as to what happened would be nice.

Oracle back-end?

 

[Cringer]

Definite withdrawal here too!!

AFAIK some of the downtimes previously were to do with a resources issue, probably a memory leak in the forum code or something like that. I believe Chris fixed that issue, so I'm not sure what this
issue was. Must have been pretty major as Chris has been pretty good at getting things fixed in the past when I've alerted him. This took a few days to resolve.

 

[Stefan]

When the site goes down in a major way, a static html page with "We know there is an issue and we are working on it." would be nice. Now it was just a black hole full of uncertainty.

 

[Cringer]

Agreed - obviously if it's the whole ISP that is gone it's a different story!

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Sorry about that, had a couple of issues lately. Latest one was an Apache upgrade to the new 2.4.1 version. For some unknown reason, the web server process was crashing. I've downgraded back to 2.2.22 and all has been back to normal.