Site down again.

[Stephen]

yeah I thought it might of been the backups causing the downtime. 2am is when the forum backs up isn't it? 200th time I've noticed it doesn't come back up for hours after 2am lol

[Agnostic Bear]

Solution: hire competent Sysadmins. And you can't say they/he are/is because there wouldn't be downtime. If it's due to supposed "backups" why do other sites not go down for backups?

Why does IP.Board's company forum run on a single VPS and vBulletin's runs on several beast servers? If you are going to continue praising vBulletin I am going to continue to insult your intelligence.

[Recursion]

Solution: hire competent Sysadmins. And you can't say they/he are/is because there wouldn't be downtime. If it's due to supposed "backups" why do other sites not go down for backups?

Why does IP.Board's company forum run on a single VPS and vBulletin's runs on several beast servers? If you are going to continue praising vBulletin I am going to continue to insult your intelligence.

People see vBulletin, they think the forums great, Jin seems to have the same *Removed* mentality in terms of this and will refuse to move.

Edited by Catz (Forum Super Moderator):
Please do not be rude about others

[N!ck]

This site could probably run on a decent VPS too imo.

I'm pretty sure these downtime problems aren't related to vBulletin anyway, so IPB vs VB isn't really the topic of the thread.

[Recursion]

This site could probably run on a decent VPS too imo.

I'm pretty sure these downtime problems aren't related to vBulletin anyway, so IPB vs VB isn't really the topic of the thread.

True.

I doubt Jin will even see this thread so it's not particularly worth discussing IMO

[HotelUser]

Solution: hire competent Sysadmins. And you can't say they/he are/is because there wouldn't be downtime. If it's due to supposed "backups" why do other sites not go down for backups?

Why does IP.Board's company forum run on a single VPS and vBulletin's runs on several beast servers? If you are going to continue praising vBulletin I am going to continue to insult your intelligence.

I don't have any stakes in for IP.Board more than vBulletin or vice versa, but I think you might be overshooting the runway with this abit too much. I think the forum software isn't what's to blame here. Just the backup scheme raising alittle hell. When Jin is on I have no doubt he will edit/disable it.

[Mathew]

The site went down for me for about 10 mins a couple of hours ago. So annoying there'd be no need for posting competitions if it worked!

[Richie]

I know this is off topic but I've always been a fan of vbulletin so really wouldn't like change

@Hoteluser
With all respect a point has been proven, an error occurs and then there is a long waiting process and even then Jin might be too busy to fix it. I believe habbox needs someone they can easily text or phone to come online to fix errors like this asap, yeah that may be a bit dramatic for a habbo fansite, but it is a huge site with a huge community, someone should always been on standby for emergency's.

[Hecktix]

I know this is off topic but I've always been a fan of vbulletin so really wouldn't like change

@Hoteluser
With all respect a point has been proven, an error occurs and then there is a long waiting process and even then Jin might be too busy to fix it. I believe habbox needs someone they can easily text or phone to come online to fix errors like this asap, yeah that may be a bit dramatic for a habbo fansite, but it is a huge site with a huge community, someone should always been on standby for emergency's.

I think this comment is unfair, although unintentional Richie as you may not know. If Habbox is down for more than 10 minutes at a reasonable time (unfortunately 2am doesnt constitute a reasonable time) I text Jin and he will check what the problem is instantly, wherever he is or get it checked instantly by one of his techie friends. Jin is quite good at rapid response if it's peak time but we can't expect him to be getting up at 2am in the morning, I've spoken with Jin today and he's going to check why the site keeps going down for long times early in the morning later on today.

[Recursion]

I think this comment is unfair, although unintentional Richie as you may not know. If Habbox is down for more than 10 minutes at a reasonable time (unfortunately 2am doesnt constitute a reasonable time) I text Jin and he will check what the problem is instantly, wherever he is or get it checked instantly by one of his techie friends. Jin is quite good at rapid response if it's peak time but we can't expect him to be getting up at 2am in the morning, I've spoken with Jin today and he's going to check why the site keeps going down for long times early in the morning later on today.

Then get someone in the USA who can be up at 2am BST to fix the issue. Not a difficult concept, and if you're trying to make the forum appeal to international members then it's simply unacceptable. I know how serious security is, but Jin seems to have an overly tin foil hat approach to hiring a second server admin.