Latest Issue

[S Allen]

Most folks probably don't care but I thought I would explain the latest issue we had. Our current hosting provider is a VPS Virtual Private Server which resides on a server with multiple VPS servers running side by side. I have full system admin on our VPS. The main server had a backup process that got stuck in a loop which ate up all of the available disk space. The forum software and website run on a databases which contains multiple tables. Databases do not take kindly to running out of disk space and table corruption occurs. The corrupt table needs repaired. You cannot do that on a live database without going through the back door which requires using the command line interface on the VPS. Once the disk space was fixed I repaired the corrupt table. I decided to take this time to do some additional cleanup on the VPS which included updating software packages that needed updating. We should be back in business.

Steve

[Habitat.pat]

Thanks, Steve. It’s time for my yearly donation.

Peace,
Pat

[Gregs672000]

Wow man, really appreciate your dedication to our community Steve. Clearly without you we would not have this wonderful site and all we get as a family and resource. THANK YOU for all your work. It's been a while since I've chipped in, so I will do so now... Thanks again!

[ppeters914]

A gorgeous day, parts arrived to install, and the 311s.org Forum is back up. Pretty nice 70th birthday so far.

[notoptoy]

Nice, I am glad you understand what needed to be done, cause I sure don't! Thanks for all you do to keep us up and running!