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Forum downtime
« on: December 18, 2012, 09:18:31 pm »
Does anyone else experience outages now and again? 

Out of interest which account is the forum on:
http://tagadab.com/uk/virtual-servers

Perhaps the RAM is being maxed out...

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2012, 09:57:31 pm »
Yes quite alot lately  :confused:

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2012, 10:00:15 pm »

It's usually due to problems with the Flux Capacitor.

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2012, 10:01:38 pm »

It's usually due to problems with the Flux Capacitor.

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2012, 01:11:26 pm »
Moved to random chat, not deemed important then. :surprised:

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2012, 01:18:46 pm »
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I thought that the forum's Admin team had plans for someone to takeover SteveP's role regarding IT aspects of running the site and, as a consequence, these ongoing server problems would be resolved. I understand that one member who has put his name forward to take over the role, is able to offer server improvements AFAIK.

So, what's the latest news about this, please?  :happy2:

And, yes, I still experience page loading problems.... Randomly - Some days clear of the problem and some not.


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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2012, 02:31:51 pm »
Moved to random chat, not deemed important then. :surprised:

You posted it in the MK5 General area, need I say more??

Sure it's important, but who dies if YOU can't get on the forum!!  :confused: Get over it dude, no one has to answer to you or anyone if the server is having problems. What do you want, a refund??  :fighting2:

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2012, 03:51:40 pm »
Moved to random chat, not deemed important then. :surprised:

You posted it in the MK5 General area, need I say more??

Sure it's important, but who dies if YOU can't get on the forum!!  :confused: Get over it dude, no one has to answer to you or anyone if the server is having problems. What do you want, a refund??  :fighting2:

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2012, 04:08:22 pm »
Moved to random chat, not deemed important then. :surprised:

You posted it in the MK5 General area, need I say more??

Sure it's important, but who dies if YOU can't get on the forum!!  :confused: Get over it dude, no one has to answer to you or anyone if the server is having problems. What do you want, a refund??  :fighting2:

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2012, 04:25:03 pm »
Moved to random chat, not deemed important then. :surprised:

You posted it in the MK5 General area, need I say more??

Sure it's important, but who dies if YOU can't get on the forum!!  :confused: Get over it dude, no one has to answer to you or anyone if the server is having problems. What do you want, a refund??  :fighting2:

bit OTT, power trip...

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2012, 05:12:03 pm »
I know how much work goes into keeping a forum running.

However, as I personally put £30 into its donation pot to improve the performance, it can be frustrating at times. :)
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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2012, 06:17:31 pm »
I wasn't complaining; making an observation that perhaps we need some more horsepower in the server department.
I gave a donation before I posted my first post.  (I don't need a refund on that though, but thanks)
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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2012, 06:23:32 pm »
At the worst I have only noticed the forum being down for 5-10 mins.

I just go and do something else and try again later.

It's understandable this site takes a lot of maintenance and I dread to think what the server costs are for running this forum.
All the work that has gone Into this place is really appreciated :happy2:

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2012, 06:28:11 pm »
Moved to random chat, not deemed important then. :surprised:

You posted it in the MK5 General area, need I say more??

Sure it's important, but who dies if YOU can't get on the forum!!  :confused: Get over it dude, no one has to answer to you or anyone if the server is having problems. What do you want, a refund??  :fighting2:

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Re: Forum downtime
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2012, 06:49:26 pm »
Moved to random chat, not deemed important then. :surprised:

You posted it in the MK5 General area, need I say more??

Sure it's important, but who dies if YOU can't get on the forum!!  :confused: Get over it dude, no one has to answer to you or anyone if the server is having problems. What do you want, a refund??  :fighting2:

Yeah blad... i iz wantin all ma mony bk plz....  :grin:

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