Down most of yesterday, and in a flakey, "no one has the sense to shut it right down and fix it" way.
Yeah Danny is/was working on migrating the servers but I have no idea if he's gone around to it. I hope he hasn't in the sense that the problems from yesterday were from the old server. If the problems we had yesterday were on the new server, we're in trouble.
Well, it's almost 11am in UK and it's flowing along sweetly. That was not the case yesterday and previously, so... .. let's hear it for Danny!
I don't think that the ongoing problems were due to a hardware problem.........so changing the physical servers probably won't fix it.........unless maybe the software is upgraded at the same time. In order to actually fix a database inconsistency problem, the operator must understand that when the audit/repair program is run and it says:" Unable to fix some errors found. Do you want to delete the defective records?" you MUST ANSWER "YES". Otherwise the problem will just go on forever......and get worse and worse.
Absolutely. With DB's sometimes you must sacrifice a hand to save the body. At some point there's nothing left to save.
I doubt it. I made a similar statement.....several of them actually.......a few years back, right before my account "went bad". I will leave it at that, since speculating about what is or is not happening with the owner really accomplishes nothing useful and might be harmful to ones "forum health".
With browser Opera it's a bit crooked right now but using Free Ad Blocker app on Android it seems OK.