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posted by martyb on Saturday February 12 2022, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the Were-Baaaack! dept.

Our servers are back up!

Earlier today (about 12 hours before this story), our site had a server crash. Early attempts to restart things (bouncing fluorine and hydrogen) were unsuccessful. (Thanks chromas and janrinok for your efforts!)

Fortunately, the system is usually lightly-loaded at this time, so relatively few people were affected.

Then mechanicjay came on the scene and was able to restart helium and neon. Then the rest of the servers for the site successfully came on-line.

Through it all, we retained access to IRC (thanks Deucalion!) and e-mail (thanks audioguy!).

There may be some lingering hiccups as slashd (which handles scheduled tasks -- think cron) plods through those tasks in due time.

We thank you for your patience during this time and send our thanks to all who notified us (politely!) about the outage on IRC and through e-mails.

Please join me in thanking all those who lent a hand through this period! You ROCK! =)

We return you to your regularly-scheduled stories.
--martyb

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @08:45PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @08:45PM (#1220839)

    Are we going to get superbowl IRC channel this year?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Saturday February 12 2022, @09:06PM (1 child)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 12 2022, @09:06PM (#1220846) Journal

    Are we going to get superbowl IRC channel this year?

    It's is the works!

    The main holdup is getting a laptop (that I last used for the prior Super Bowl) up and working. (I use my TV as my primary computer monitor because I do not watch much TV.) I'd like to watch the big game AND chat on IRC at the same time.

    --
    Wit is intellect, dancing.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 13 2022, @10:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 13 2022, @10:08PM (#1221122)

      So? What 's up?