Going Offline for Scheduled Maintenance

Post by trog @ 10:14am 07/08/09 | 34 Comments

We are about to drop offline for some scheduled maintenance (some boxes are being moved to an all-new rack).

Apologies for any inconvenience. I recommend Vector Tower Defense to get you through these tough times.

Update: Oh yeh, this is all finished now. Thanks!

maintenance

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Le C***
Posted 04:37pm 07/8/09

1st post back online!

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TicMan
Posted 04:37pm 07/8/09

Unbelievable, how was I supposed to prepare for this? I hope along with my MSN you got BOMBARDED by people going "WTF!?@?"

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taggs
Posted 04:38pm 07/8/09

not cool, man.

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Eds
Posted 04:41pm 07/8/09

Just curious why you do your scheduled downtime during the middle of the day?

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Spook
Posted 04:41pm 07/8/09

NO ONE F*****G TODL ME YOU WERE GOING AWAY

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Boxhead
Posted 04:42pm 07/8/09

so they can fix it if it breaks?

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Eds
Posted 04:44pm 07/8/09

Boxhead, stop trolling :P

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Gesthemene
Posted 04:44pm 07/8/09

Just curious why you do your scheduled downtime during the middle of the day?

I'm with Eds. I would've scheduled this for 11pm or so... Or did someone break something accidentally? :P

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thermite
Posted 04:46pm 07/8/09

haha thought I was finally banned

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Mr Hardware
Posted 04:48pm 07/8/09

oh man i thought they'd blocked it at work
sweet im glad it's back up

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infi
Posted 04:53pm 07/8/09

holy s*** that was like trying to quit smoking.

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Spook
Posted 04:54pm 07/8/09

haha thought I was finally banned

when you are banned, you get a nice little page telling you how long for;

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Tiny
Posted 05:00pm 07/8/09

Just curious why you do your scheduled downtime during the middle of the day?

Why would they go into work out of hours to bring down a free forum. F*** that do it when you can i say.

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Triamks
Posted 05:06pm 07/8/09

I was sad when I couldn't get on earlier.

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Python
Posted 05:34pm 07/8/09

Ausgamers used their connection to take down twitter

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FaceMan
Posted 05:37pm 07/8/09

I was inconvenienced but i will accept your Apology.

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mission
Posted 05:42pm 07/8/09

oh man i thought they'd blocked it at work

Same.

I had the most boring f*****g day at work and QGL wasn't there to help me through the tough times.

Shame on you.

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trog
Posted 05:45pm 07/8/09

Just curious why you do your scheduled downtime during the middle of the day?

It was a major change that required a lot of hauling of equipment around; doing it in the middle of the day meant the guys doing it (Jim and ara) didn't have to massively inconvenience themselves to make it all happen in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning.

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Midda
Posted 06:25pm 07/8/09

Man, I thought something terrible had happened. Glad it's all up and running again.

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trog
Posted 06:26pm 07/8/09

We have this stupid Twitter page which I was posting hilarious updates on - www.twitter.com/ausgamers . Don't blame you if you want to ignore it.

edit: haha oh yeh, I forgot it was getting DDOSed.

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Fireblood
Posted 07:08pm 07/8/09

Why would they go into work out of hours to bring down a free forum. F*** that do it when you can i say.

More than good enough excuse!

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euphoria
Posted 07:49pm 07/8/09

SLOWEST DAY EVER! I even went to news.com.au. I feel dirty.

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Skitza
Posted 07:58pm 07/8/09

^ +11ty billion.

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greazy
Posted 08:00pm 07/8/09

woah ara works for ausgamers?

how the hell does ausgamers function with that turd floating about the network?

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Jim
Posted 08:07pm 07/8/09

ara has been an integral part of the functioning of our infrastructure for nearly as long as we've been operating - he is a cainer

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Jim
Posted 08:16pm 07/8/09

and yeh the work was done during the day because it was supposed to be a much shorter outage and we didn't think it warranted overnight work plus we needed resources provided by the data centre (re-provisioning switch ports from one rack to another). unfortunately they had issues configuring their end thus the extended downtime. no major complaints from me though, we've been in the old racks for several years now with very little downtime at all from the datacentre/network end which is even more noteworthy given that it was sponsored by Comindico/Soul for all that time

last edited by Jim at 20:16:34 07/Aug/09

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Boxhead
Posted 08:19pm 07/8/09

Props to Comindico/soul..

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koopz
Posted 09:44pm 07/8/09

when you are banned, you get a nice little page telling you how long for

sometimes your isp does the greater community a favour too ;)

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Reverend Evil�
Posted 11:34pm 07/8/09

Glad to see the forum is back up again. I went to work at 2pm and was worried that it was still down.

I think in future server maintenance should start around 4am and finish by 7:30am.

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konstie
Posted 04:58pm 08/8/09

i actually enjoyed playing vector td.

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infi
Posted 05:15pm 08/8/09

yeah, it's ok, but you can't do it for 5 hours.

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greazy
Posted 05:28pm 08/8/09

Next time can you schedule it on a Tuesday?

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Bikkies
Posted 01:41am 09/8/09

Sexy tweet page noted.

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HeardY
Posted 07:10am 11/8/09

haha greasy you're a newb if you didn't know ara was the mad cainer running most of the infrastructure here!

also this outage didn't impact me as I was at the cricket watching the Aussie win, so carry on with the outages

<3

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