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Forum Outage
« on: July 22, 2009, 10:07:07 PM »
Early Wednesday morning, the TWC Forums went down without notice and for without reason. I do not believe at this time it was a security issue that caused the forum to fail. Thanks to the help of our great host, we restored a backup of the forum. All posts seem to be intact. Please alert me if there are any site or forum issues.

Thank you to everyone who alerted me of the forum outage. In the future please visit twctodayforums.com or http://www.ustream.tv/channel/norfolk-weather-channel-stream I or others will be on the IRC chat there and can answer your questions. In the event of a long outage, thats the best place to be.
« Last Edit: July 22, 2009, 10:21:17 PM by Stephen »

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2009, 10:23:46 PM »
Glad to see everything back to normal :)

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2009, 10:26:33 PM »
Our host was able to simply restore all of the forum files to get thing back up and running. There were no issues with the database; apparently some files got corrupted.

Again, if you notice any problems, please alert us. :yes:

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2009, 10:35:59 PM »
I see this:

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2009, 10:37:52 PM »
I see this:
That's been present before the outage. Not going to worry about it right now since it isn't a huge deal. :no:

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2009, 10:38:40 PM »
I see this:
Sure it wasnt like that before?
Stephen beat me  :P

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2009, 10:39:14 PM »
I see this:
Sure it wasnt like that before?
Nope it was normal like that before the outage.

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2009, 10:40:05 PM »
I see this:
Sure it wasnt like that before?
Nope it was normal like that before the outage.
Clear you cache, ect. See if that helps. Its been a known issue before

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2009, 11:47:18 PM »
I don't see anything wrong with the forums, Martin.  There are still some issues with the TWCT site itself, but they're not related to this outage.

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2009, 11:46:55 PM »
I notice that when logged out, none of the threads/topics are accessible anymore. Is this related to the outage, and is it possible that this can be changed? :dunno:

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2009, 11:48:12 PM »
There's a reason for that... The thread seems to be gone. Martin can tell you if you PM him.

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2009, 11:52:19 PM »
I get an error everytime I view the forum stats. Is this related to the outage?

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2009, 12:04:28 AM »
I get an error everytime I view the forum stats. Is this related to the outage?
The outage was over a week ago, so no. ;)

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2009, 12:08:05 AM »
Well the stats feature showed to a blank page saying "error". :huh:

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2009, 12:09:53 AM »
Well the stats feature showed to a blank page saying "error". :huh:
Yes, we are aware of that. :yes: