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DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member
Username: Sickspeed

Post Number: 6545
Registered: 8-2002
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 10:03 am:   

Hey, everyone... i just got out of a coma... Being without FerrariChat almost killed me this time...

Rob, as a post-whoring member i demand health insurance through FerrariChat... Um... yeah...
Frank Wiedmann (Frankieferrari)
Member
Username: Frankieferrari

Post Number: 335
Registered: 8-2003
Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 5:22 pm:   

Actually had to get away from the 'puter and go out DRIVING!!!!
David Mcguire (Matkat)
Junior Member
Username: Matkat

Post Number: 70
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 1:49 am:   

Ruined my whole day,in at work for 08:00 am (european time)till 20:00 and no ferrari chat,sure as hell makes for a very long day!!
Best regards
Dave McGuire
Russ Turner (Snj5)
Member
Username: Snj5

Post Number: 499
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 9:02 pm:   

After 4 hours without FChat I had to join a support group......
Jim E (Jimpo1)
Advanced Member
Username: Jimpo1

Post Number: 2614
Registered: 7-2001
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 8:22 pm:   

I was having some withdrawls myself!
Ed P. (Ebp)
Junior Member
Username: Ebp

Post Number: 230
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 8:17 pm:   

DES was probably like a caged animal during all this....:-)
Ben Cannon (Artherd)
Member
Username: Artherd

Post Number: 918
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 3:16 pm:   

Rob- I find the same thing, whenever I'm gone, and ONLY when I'm gone, things break!
Thomas I (Wax)
Member
Username: Wax

Post Number: 324
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 2:58 pm:   

When gremlins attack... [your name here]'s out of town - amazing phenomenon, isn't it?
Hope the racing goes well!
Jordan Witherspoon (Jordan747_400)
Intermediate Member
Username: Jordan747_400

Post Number: 1984
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 2:28 pm:   

Hey Rob, Im on the site pretty much all day so I can message you if anything ever happens.
Augustine J. Staino (Azzuro328)
Member
Username: Azzuro328

Post Number: 385
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 2:22 pm:   

William,
Good call. I was going to have an ambulance sent over just in case. :-)
William Huber (Solipsist)
Intermediate Member
Username: Solipsist

Post Number: 1314
Registered: 9-2001
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 2:19 pm:   

I wonder if DES had a meltdown?
Willis Huang (Willis360)
Intermediate Member
Username: Willis360

Post Number: 1603
Registered: 8-2001
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 2:14 pm:   

I'm glad it's back on, Rob. Had me wondering for a while. :-)
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator
Username: Rob328gts

Post Number: 6355
Registered: 12-2000
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 2:13 pm:   

Good news and sorry everyone for FC being down...

You server went down yesterday, and we had to reboot it. We monitor icmp, and httpd on the server. The server was not configured to start named, or mysqld on start. We have fixed that problem, and it should not happen again.
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator
Username: Rob328gts

Post Number: 6353
Registered: 12-2000
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 1:56 pm:   

Funny how these problems only happen when I'm out of town. I'm at Hallett, OK racing the SRX7. I can't get a wireless connection from the hotel, so couldn't check the site last night. I had practice, qualifying, and a race this morning, so this is the first I had a chance to check. Jennie called me about noon that the site was down. I called tech support and they said one of my name servers was down. I'll find out when I get back to Dallas why tech support wasn't automatically notifed when it went down. If the database and many other things go down, then it automatically restarts and will notify tech support if problems. Live and learn, I swear things only happen when I'm out of town. I'll write a cron job or something to minimize the amount of downtime in the future.

When my server is down, I don't get email either. If you are on FC quite a bit and want to be someone that notifies me when something is wrong, please email me and I'll send you my PCS.

Thank you,
rob
MarkPDX (Markpdx)
Member
Username: Markpdx

Post Number: 548
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 1:46 pm:   

Just curious

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