Nekonomicon - Downtime

nekonoko
Site Admin
From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 9:02 a.m...

I apologize for the recent downtime - there was an issue at the central office that was finally resolved this morning. No hardware/software failures on my end though

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Adrenaline
From Laurel, MD USA
Who joined Feb. 10, 2005, 12:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 9:10 a.m...

Glad to hear!

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Alver
From Wetteren, Belgium
Who joined Dec. 7, 2005, 4:46 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 11:05 a.m...

You don't know what you have 'til it's... suffering from a network breakdown. Glad everything is back up

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GeneratriX
From Rosario / Santa Fe / República Argentina
Who joined Oct. 21, 2003, 2:07 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 11:21 a.m...

And it is wonderfully back!

Oh!, let me write that!

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From London - UK
Who joined March 2, 2011, 1:37 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 11:53 a.m...

It is great that everything is back!

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jan-jaap
Donor
From Wijchen, The Netherlands
Who joined June 17, 2004, 11:35 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 12:22 p.m...

I was starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms :lol:

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dclough
Who joined Jan. 18, 2010, 7:59 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 12:38 p.m...

Glad to hear everything's alright! For a moment there I was starting to suspect a disk crash, database wipeout, system failure, or all of the above...

nekonoko
Site Admin
From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 12:42 p.m...

dclough wrote: Glad to hear everything's alright! For a moment there I was starting to suspect a disk crash, database wipeout, system failure, or all of the above...

Yep, everything was up and running the whole time, but the network was isolated. Once they fixed the problem at the CO everything came back up on its own. They still haven't told me what they did to fix it though (edit: was informed they replaced the DSLAM card).

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jirka
Donor
From Czech Republic
Who joined May 4, 2004, 7:55 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 12:47 p.m...

nekonoko wrote: No hardware/software failures on my end though

This is the most important. Thanks for being back!

nekonoko
Site Admin
From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 3:46 p.m...

And as luck would have it, the entire ISP goes down a few hours later

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tingo
From Oslo, Norway
Who joined June 26, 2010, 5:40 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 4:08 p.m...

So now we are waiting for the third incident? :-)

(Hopefully not).

Torfinn

nekonoko
Site Admin
From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 4:12 p.m...

Yeah, much more of this and I'm switching providers. I'm probably going to get billed for the on-site tech as it is.

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geo
From Shenzhen, P.R.C
Who joined July 21, 2009, 5:07 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 7:13 p.m...

yahoo!! thanks neko and good to know you're ok

(Sakura)

(Sasuke)

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BSDero
From Aguascalientes, Mexico
Who joined Nov. 24, 2005, 9:11 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 10, 2012, 7:58 p.m...

I'm glad to know that (phewwww!!!)

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nekonoko
Site Admin
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.
and authored 7947 notes

Wrote the following at April 11, 2012, 1:54 a.m...

kubatyszko wrote:

some other means of communication so that jan-jaap doesn't get into withdrawal ?

Hey, you're welcome - glad I spent all that time on the phone getting things running for you again.

That said, I may look into using Twitter for notifications again. But you have to realize this is my hobby, not a professionally paid for site with advertising and income and all the other neato stuff (currently runs me about $3000/yr out of pocket). Going on right off the bat about how I could do things better isn't very endearing.

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hazelden
Who joined July 21, 2010, 11:09 a.m.
and authored 47 notes

Wrote the following at April 11, 2012, 1:55 a.m...

Hi Neko. Thanks for keeping the site going. I never realized how often I checked Nekochan in a day until it was down.

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kubatyszko
From Tokyo
Who joined Nov. 12, 2011, 3:18 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 11, 2012, 2:35 a.m...

How about creating slave (synchronized) DNS server somewhere outside (so that DNS is alive in such a situation), and deploying a backup IRC or some other means of communication so that jan-jaap doesn't get into withdrawal ?
Wich such a config, neko would still have control over the DNS, and slave would keep working even if the master is dead...

[click for links to hinv] JP: :Fuel: | :O2: | :Indy: || PL: [ :Fuel: :O2:

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kubatyszko
Who joined Nov. 12, 2011, 3:18 a.m.
and authored 304 notes

Wrote the following at April 11, 2012, 3:11 a.m...

nekonoko wrote:

kubatyszko wrote:

some other means of communication so that jan-jaap doesn't get into withdrawal ?

Hey, you're welcome - glad I spent all that time on the phone getting things running for you again.

That said, I may look into using Twitter for notifications again. But you have to realize this is my hobby, not a professionally paid for site with advertising and income and all the other neato stuff (currently runs me about $3000/yr out of pocket). Going on right off the bat about how I could do things better isn't very endearing.

I do know this is your hobby (had a hobby project of my own for 12 years), and I (and many others) really do appreciate your effort to keep the community running.
I'm just trying to offer additional help to make the experience even better...

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hamei
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.
and authored 8449 notes

Wrote the following at April 11, 2012, 4:58 a.m...

nekonoko wrote:

And as luck would have it, the entire ISP goes down a few hours later

Are you sure you don't live in China ?

Oskar45
Who joined Dec. 5, 2005, 2:35 a.m.
and authored 1922 notes

Wrote the following at April 11, 2012, 6:30 a.m...

hamei wrote:

nekonoko wrote:

And as luck would have it, the entire ISP goes down a few hours later

Are you sure you don't live in China ?

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