Recent Downtime During Shows

[Logandyer45]

Hello,

Last night at 12am EST/5am GMT, I was DJing. Now, I don't normally complaint, but here is my 1 of few complaints. Last night users were not able to send in Req's or shoutouts, so I was basically doing nothing. Now, I know this can't be user fixed by me, so I am going to recomend this:

I think we as an Official Fansite should have a site coder on hand incase something like this arises, like last night. We should have a site coder from EACH region. (NA, EU, OC). General Management were asleep while this happened. This makes the DJ's job A LOT harder as we don't have any idea what the listeners want to hear. Yes, it was not a peak hour, but we should always have at least 10 people tuned in, we had 5 my WHOLE show. I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but I suggest this issue is fixed ASAP.

Thanks,
LoganD

[scottish]

Not required, it's obviously an isolated incident, and I highly doubt there's people who actually know what they're doing in different zones, never mind the fact you'd need to trust them (which imho would be very hard to do).

Overall seems absolutely pointless, you couldn't receive req's for a few hours on probably 10 listeners, doesn't mean you sit and do nothing, just means you overplay the same overplayed crap that's overplayed on every other national radio instead of waiting for them to request it.

[Rachel]

Not everyone who are able to be a site tech. I know quite a bit in site tech but I wouldn't be online every day and every hour... unless I really have to.

I am sure there are a few good tech here but trusting is the big part here before hiring.

[!x!dude!x!2]

Not required, it's obviously an isolated incident, and I highly doubt there's people who actually know what they're doing in different zones, never mind the fact you'd need to trust them (which imho would be very hard to do).

Overall seems absolutely pointless, you couldn't receive req's for a few hours on probably 10 listeners, doesn't mean you sit and do nothing, just means you overplay the same overplayed crap that's overplayed on every other national radio instead of waiting for them to request it.

the forum was down for over 4 hours. so it makes it hard for non gmt manager to do anything forum related when its down

[xxMATTGxx]

The uptime of Habbox recently has been good and has been better than it was a good few months ago. We was down from around 4:30am GMT and we came back up after I restarted a service around 8:30am GMT. The reason we don't have people from the major timezones who can fix these problems is because there isn't always someone we can trust. "Site Coders" don't have access to the server root or anything like that in the first place. Jin/Sierk will not trust access to the server willy nilly and therefore it has to be people we have known for years and can trust. Site Coders are just coders, they aren't server technicians or anything like that. It's a whole different area.

The downtime that occurred early this morning was an isolated incident.

[lawrawrrr]

I do agree that we need more intl. people, across the board, but that's not to say that it's useless or anything. Thing is, we don't really have any active GMT side coders - only Tom, who has 2xAGM roles to do, and Will ('working' on V7), plus other Tom, who manages the server and stuff.

Thing is, it's easy to DJ without requests or shoutouts - I doubt people will actively tune out, and you could easily say on air the system isn't working so get down to Habbo and let me know what you want me to play on there!

If Habbox is down then people won't really be listening in I don't think, they'd have to go on tunein or something anyway.

[Samantha]

Hello,

Last night at 12am EST/5am GMT, I was DJing. Now, I don't normally complaint, but here is my 1 of few complaints. Last night users were not able to send in Req's or shoutouts, so I was basically doing nothing. Now, I know this can't be user fixed by me, so I am going to recomend this:

I think we as an Official Fansite should have a site coder on hand incase something like this arises, like last night. We should have a site coder from EACH region. (NA, EU, OC). General Management were asleep while this happened. This makes the DJ's job A LOT harder as we don't have any idea what the listeners want to hear. Yes, it was not a peak hour, but we should always have at least 10 people tuned in, we had 5 my WHOLE show. I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but I suggest this issue is fixed ASAP.

Thanks,
LoganD

Like others have said, it's about trust and yeah we may need more international staff, but it's also finding them. I was up at 7 and noticed it was down, unfortunately even as AGM I can't fix it, nor would I know how. Plus there's not just GM who can fix it. I know what you mean though and I'm sure we'll get more if it becomes a regular occurrence.

[Mark]

Surely the answer is not to hire any more coders/technicians but to sort the server downtime out? Over the years I've been at Habbox the server has never really been 100% and I've never understood why.

[xxMATTGxx]

Surely the answer is not to hire any more coders/technicians but to sort the server downtime out? Over the years I've been at Habbox the server has never really been 100% and I've never understood why.

Nothing is ever 100%.

[Logandyer45]

But with us being an official fansite, wouldn't our uptime/downtime be an issue? Like, wouldn't General Management aka MattG, Sam, Tom and Jin & Sierk care about uptime?


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