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.
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.