What lightning struck twice will struck thrice

[oldandlively]

Sorry about that everyone. Our infamous "Lightning" struck the third time. For those who also don't get the humor, our member Lightning was also the co-founder of MoS and he established the server here with @DLD. He probably laughs his head off right now in heaven seeing all these things unfolded before us. He spent countless hours maintaining the server behind the scenes.

I attempted to send out to our entire user list of 300,000+ users and the programs took a good look, and went offline in the middle of the process at 110k users. Freaking damn software. The version of the database (version 10) couldn't handle it, so I updated it to the latest version (v11).

Further investigation on why the server slowed down and failed, surely enough, the IBM server sent a love letter at 17:00:06 CST indicating the infrastructure suffered a glitch. SMH. What a wonderful world of technology we're living in. The glitch took out our 2 days of backups as well. Piece of crap. Time to send a letter of selected choice phrasing.

I'll keep both the backup on the IBM server and my local server. This way, there's no longer any excuse. Sorry @DLD, until we know more about IBM glitches after their infrastructure modification, I'm not putting my trust on their backup system either. We'll be incurring a bit of cost for high-traffic bandwidth to back up our data for the next few months.

 

[DLD]

What ever it takes...back ups are the most important thing we an do. I am so happy you are all over this. Now I call you Moses because you are pretty much dividing the sea.

 

[oldandlively]

What ever it takes...back ups are the most important thing we an do. I am so happy you are all over this. Now I call you Moses because you are pretty much dividing the sea.

At the moment, the roadways are dividing my bones intead.

 

[DLD]

At the moment, the roadways are dividing my bones intead.

 

[LONGERDICK7+]

When I was a kid I use to imagine that in the 21 st century cars would fly and computers would be devices that would solve our lives like magic .. IBM is one of the most famous, renowned and technologically advanced software, programming,high tech company but they are having a hard time fixing the MOS forums..If they can program "rockets to the moon" why wouldn't they fix the forums in a flash

 

[DLD]

When I was a kid I use to imagine that in the 21 st century cars would fly and computers would be devices that would solve our lives like magic .. IBM is one of the most famous, renowned and technologically advanced software, programming,high tech company but they are having a hard time fixing the MOS forums..If they can program "rockets to the moon" why wouldn't they fix the forums in a flash

They are so slow to help us. Everytime we have an issue they always take like 3 days to get back to us. It is frustrating and continues to hurt us. @oldandlively has been the reason we are able to go forward. Sheena and myself will be dealing with things until oldandlively comes back. I hope its quick as I am not very good with these things but Sheena does so we should be secure.

 

[LONGERDICK7+]

They are so slow to help us. Everytime we have an issue they always take like 3 days to get back to us. It is frustrating and continues to hurt us. @oldandlively has been the reason we are able to go forward. Sheena and myself will be dealing with things until oldandlively comes back. I hope its quick as I am not very good with these things but Sheena does so we should be secure.

I wouldn't say I hate computers but fixing this mess seems to be a completely different issue.. Its great that you guys are going to continue with the fixing.. These forums are part of my life too.

 

[DLD]

I wouldn't say I hate computers but fixing this mess seems to be a completely different issue.. Its great that you guys are going to continue with the fixing.. These forums are part of my life too.

Amen my Brother! Amen!

 

[LONGERDICK7+]

Amen my Brother! Amen!

Right Mike God blesses all.

 

[DLD]

Right Mike God blesses all.

Indeed! For all those who believe Christ is our best friend when we pray to Him.

 

[oldandlively]

God damn IBM!! STOP IT ALREADY!! Damn depreciation of their software kept on crashing our webserver and messing with our data. I have to unbind the broken limb to work on an IBM freaking screw-up while screaming in pain to get the server back up running again.

So, here's the breakdown of the recent incident.

IBM sent a love notice about their DB depreciation. I backed up like a madman everyday both on the server and the local NAS. I know it's going to happen again. What happened earlier 2 weeks ago will always happen again. Surely enough, IBM rolling depreciation to remove their support hits our freaking server today!! TODAY!! When I'm about to go to sleep to reset up. I got a system notice that our CPUs were running high and we ran out of space. I didn't trigger any high image backup of any kind. Surely enough, IBM triggered the backup as they rolled out their software removal process. Freaking IBM. There goes my 4 hours sleep.



They better not mess around while I'm in surgery or while I'm coming out of being drugged up. I have high pain tolerance so they add crazy cocktails to keep me under. @DLD you are on your own with the brothers until I can get my brain out of the medicated funk.

 

[LONGERDICK7+]

Yep better rest and let the body heal. The forums are already working good enough.

 

[DLD]

God damn IBM!! STOP IT ALREADY!! Damn depreciation of their software kept on crashing our webserver and messing with our data. I have to unbind the broken limb to work on an IBM freaking screw-up while screaming in pain to get the server back up running again.

So, here's the breakdown of the recent incident.

IBM sent a love notice about their DB depreciation. I backed up like a madman everyday both on the server and the local NAS. I know it's going to happen again. What happened earlier 2 weeks ago will always happen again. Surely enough, IBM rolling depreciation to remove their support hits our freaking server today!! TODAY!! When I'm about to go to sleep to reset up. I got a system notice that our CPUs were running high and we ran out of space. I didn't trigger any high image backup of any kind. Surely enough, IBM triggered the backup as they rolled out their software removal process. Freaking IBM. There goes my 4 hours sleep.

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They better not mess around while I'm in surgery or while I'm coming out of being drugged up. I have high pain tolerance so they add crazy cocktails to keep me under. @DLD you are on your own with the brothers until I can get my brain out of the medicated funk.

Did we lose any posts?

 

[DLD]

What do i do to do this function?

 

[oldandlively]

Did we lose any posts?

I can say we lost 3 posts. That's it. Sorry, still drugged up.

What do i do to do this function?

SRT?