Downtime

[Gary]

OpelGT.com was off line for several hours today when our host flagged us for "exceeding Bandwidth limits". The problem file has been removed and this won't be a problem in the future.

[2 Fast 4 U]

Originally Posted by Gary OpelGT.com was off line for several hours today when our host flagged us for "exceeding Bandwidth limits". The problem file has been removed and this won't be a problem in the future.

What did the file do then??

[Motor Mouth]

Where did it come from......I was getting withdrawl symptons

[Gary]

When the site was hacked, a file was dropped in a little used directory that allowed them to run it from the server.

It's not easy getting tech support on a Sunday morning.

[Gary]

The site was down for a short time this morning when one of the Chat Room tables in the database decided that it did not want to play anymore. I received close to 200 emails from the server in a half hour period.

The good news is that thanks to Google, the downtime was minimal. Bad news, the "count" that shows how many members are chatting no longer works.

We now return to your regular scheduled programming....

[Ooooner]

Gary,
I started to get the "shakes" when I could not get on-line to the OpelGT.com site this morning.
All I can say is "Thank You" for your hard work to keep this site up and running.

[soybean]

Originally Posted by Ooooner Gary, I started to get the "shakes" when I could not get on-line to the OpelGT.com site this morning. All I can say is "Thank You" for your hard work to keep this site up and running.

I was reading when it went offline and thought it was just my computer. Glad it wasn't. I second the motion that Roy said "Thank You" for your hard work to keep this site up and running."
Jarrell

[hallgeir]

Originally Posted by Ooooner Gary, I started to get the "shakes" when I could not get on-line to the OpelGT.com site this morning. All I can say is "Thank You" for your hard work to keep this site up and running.

Me too. Would also bring you a big THANK YOU.
Keep an eye on your mailbox in a couple of weeks from now. There will be a little thing for you to enjoy during christmas. Thanks again.

[baz]

still debugging Gary? just took me an hour to get onto the forum

[kwilford]

Gary,

This might be related. I just tried moving a thread:
http://www.opelgt.com/forums/6c-fuel...tml#post145637
And I received the following message:



Database error
The Opel Community Forums database has encountered a problem.
________________________________________
Please try the following:
• Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
• Open the www.opelgt.com home page, then try to open another page.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

The www.opelgt.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.


We apologise for any inconvenience.

[kwilford]

And the "Search Posts" feature seems to have been truncated about 4 hours ago, at about 9:40 am MST. There are newer posts than what shows up on a search and also on the front page

[Gary]

There were more problems with the database this afternoon I asked our host to move the site to another server. They will be moving it today (or may have already) so there could be some issues with recent posts.

We never had as many problems when we were on the old server. Hopefully this will end this stream.....

[Gary]

It seems nothing is being updated. Posts are appearing, but the index pages are not showing them..... Grrr... It's going to be a long night.

[Gary]

Looks like we had a corrupt table that was hosing the posts. This is not the way I wanted to learn about databases and php coding.....

[Gary]

Checking the post counter...

[timemachine]

Gary,

Thanks for your hard work to keep us up and running. Amazing how fast people feel the pain.

I posted five times to a formu by accident today, kept getting database error messages when I hit submit. so I kept trying to repost, not knowing the page was not updating by itself.

Jim

[Lindsay]

Just tried to upload files for Parts Review section. System hung-up for few minutes, then lost www.opelgt.com link. Oh well ... Thanks for the hard work!

[GTJIM]

When fault messages appear on your link with GT.com - just log off and sit in the corner (twitching!) for a wee while - the more of us that try to post and log on during these (quite rare) outages ... the more cleaning up of multiple posts and overloads Gary has to contend with. Patience! Patience!

That is the best thanks Gary can get from us!

[EJprovost]

Thankyou Gary! I wish the computer world didn't have to contend with evil hackers also.

[Gary]

There could be more "Downtime" today when we are moved to a new server. It may take a couple of hours for the migration to the new server......

[broszzy]

Thanks Gary for everything you do to keep this site running, This is such a cool site. I've only been a member here for a short time and I just can't believe how helpful every one is here Thanks again Gary and any one else thats working hard behind the scenes here

Pat