2007/8 Forum Downtime Announcements

[roscoe36]

Saturday maintenance is complete. Please be advised there will be a longer downtime tomorrow (Sept 2) for the full board upgrade.

More details here
http://www.pistonsforum.com/news/688...tml#post110293

[roscoe36]

Please read this post completely, it is very relevant to all frequent visitors and members.

Today's major forum upgrade is 95% complete and the most difficult challenges have been successfully crossed.

Some remaining cleanup and final touches are required and will be done over the next two weeks. These remaining issues are not considered mission critical at this time.

Known outstanding issues are,

1. The horizontal menu at the top of the forum is missing some functionality.
2. The individual post listings are missing some functionality.

All visitors and members are advised to click REFRESH/RELOAD on their browsers to make sure they have the latest version of the forum files stored on their computer. You only have to do this once after an upgrade, and can do it on any forum page.

Please post any and all upgrade questions, problems or concerns here,
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

Thank you for your patience. These intention behind these upgrades are to keep the forum secure and working as well as possible.

[roscoe36]

Some unplanned downtimes today. PF.com is drawing a large amount of traffic. We're watching this closely, and taking precautions to keep the forums up and available.

Thanks for your patience!

Feel free to post any questions or concerns here,
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

[roscoe36]

May have some unplanned downtime tonight. I will advise before (if possible) or shortly after in the event we need to do any work.

[roscoe36]

Possibly a little more downtime this evening, we're still chewing up a lot of memory, and I have asked our support team to investigate and as necessary, fix the issue.

Thanks for your support and patience!

[roscoe36]

This afternoon's two hours of downtime was unplanned.

At this time, we're not exactly certain where the problem lies, although slippy and I think it may be a DDoS Attack. (Darko Denial of Service).

Sorry, a little bit of gallows humour there.

Back to being serious, I've asked our support technicians to complete my request for a full system audit. Once that is done, hopefully we will have a better idea what exactly is causing the server to overload.

Thank you so much for your continued patience and support. We'll get this figured out as soon as possible.

Feel free to post any questions, comments or concerns here,
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

[roscoe36]

detteam has brought to my attention that the downtime feedback link was not working.

It should work now, and I encourage anyone with comments or questions to let us know here
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.

[roscoe36]

Brief downtime scheduled for Saturday, Oct 27th 2007 in the AM hours.

Expected downtime should be less than 20 minutes.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

All discussion on downtimes can be directed to the following link
http://www.pistonsforum.com/feedback...iscussion.html

[roscoe36]

I will be performing some maintenance this afternoon, prior to the Atlanta game. I don't anticipate downtime, but there may be a brief outage or two.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

[roscoe36]

Jan 20th, 2008 approx 3:00 PM EST

Not quite sure what happened there, but we are back up and running. I had to give the server a swift kick.