Buh?

[Sir Frizz]

What happened? I couldn't access the forums for about 3 - 4 hours. I'm currently the only one here atm aswell. Ted, what have you done now eh?

 

[pg_exoshear]

Aye, I came to lurk -- And it said the server was busy.

 

[Sir Frizz]

Most users ever online was 714 on 19-02-03 at 17:58.

[Aussie]

Crikey mate, BW gettin' populah?

[/Aussie]

 

[Draylor]

Problems were no doubt caused by an expansion to a certain game that makes rather heavy use of these forums

The game servers were down for a little over 12 hours today, a few thousand bored players seem to have overloaded this site.

 

[mank!]

I knew it'd be down to DAoCers

 

[SilverHood]

sorry about that chaps

We'll gong back to slaying trolls, elves and whatnot now

 

[mr.Blacky]

Well we wouldn't like to see you lot with withdrawl. The forums would never be the same.

 

[FatBusinessman]

No, you're all wrong. It's obviously because it was my birthday yesterday

</modest>

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by FatBusinessman
No, you're all wrong. It's obviously because it was my birthday yesterday

</modest>

This too led to the forums melting horribly



Your fault fbm!

 

[Furr]

Blooming DaoC's grrrrrrr

We cant even invade their forum now, because there are just far too many of them!

 

[GDW]

Yes I believe theyll soon outnumber those of Chinese origin

 

[Testin da Cable]

aye, but one of us is worth 50 of them!! attack!!! attack I say!!!!!11







*hangs back to see what happens*

 

[Furr]

They have a thread stated yesterday evening already with 3897 views...... eeeek

 

[old.Fweddy]

I couldn't get on here either. I missed you guys.


You realize there's so many DAOCers now that if they all jumped at the same time it would create an earthquake large enough to wipe out the world?

 

[~Lazarus~]

so we all sneak up behind them and shout


"BOO"

at the same time?

 

[Testin da Cable]

they should warrent their own webserver/database by now, on concurrent numbers alone.

 

[Furr]

they broke it again.....

*Gets into suicide battle gear*

 

[Testin da Cable]

*daub furof with blue paint*

 

[S-Gray]

heh aye, everytime i wanted to post it kept asking me to logon, even tho i was already on

 

[Deebs]

The forums are in the process of migrating to a new server which should be able to handle the load.

The issue was not the database but rather Apache maxing out the server it was running on.

The new server has a leaner compiled version of Apache and PHP, along with all content output being gzipped (compressed) and a PHP cache accelerator running.

At the moment forums.barrysworld.com is undergoing a dns change, forums.game.net is still pointing to the old server, to check attempt to ping forums.barrysworld.com and it should come back with 213.221.172.81 if you are using the new server.

The ping will time out. If the ip is not that above you can do this to attempt to force your windows machine to reload its dns :

ipconfig /flush dns

OR

net stop "dns client"
net start "dns client"

both from a command prompt.

 

[Testin da Cable]

DBs, there used to be a little something stopping me from being able to ping the linweb boxen. Has that been turned off?

 

[FatBusinessman]

Originally posted by DBs
The forums are in the process of migrating to a new server which should be able to handle the load.

[wij]

Hehehe, "handle the load".

[/wij]

 

[Deebs]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
DBs, there used to be a little something stopping me from being able to ping the linweb boxen. Has that been turned off?

Are you saying you can ping them or not?

 

[Testin da Cable]

I can't mate

PING forums.barrysworld.com (213.221.172.81): 56 data bytes

--- forums.barrysworld.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

ICMP is dropped after 213.221.179.115 I believe.

 

[~Lazarus~]

Originally posted by DBs


to check attempt to ping forums.barrysworld.com and it should come back with 213.221.172.81 if you are using the new server.

The ping will time out. If the ip is not that above you can do this to attempt to force your windows machine to reload its dns :

Originally posted by Twathead

ICMP is dropped after 213.221.179.115 I believe.

You should read the post a little better tdc

 

[Testin da Cable]

sorry, I'm doing management and it rots your brain


bit like javascript does, but slightly different

 

[SFXman]

Mwhahar, good news. That means you even notice us sometime soon

 

[Will]

That is one of the worst signatures I think I have ever seen...coming in at about 5 times longer than your post.

*shudders*

 

[leggy]

He's spammed here before... i still have nightmares.

 

[~Lazarus~]

how ya keeping Will?