Chief Delphi Back Online!

[Pavan Dave]

For a little while now CD has been inaccessible to many people. You are not alone. The site was down.

DNS for chiefdelphi is down -- data center issue. something about a transformer on fire .. .. robots from another planet? :-o


Brandon's Away message during the CD troubles and the Slashdot article of the explosion at ThePlanet database server went hand in hand and explained the crisis to many FIRSTers right away.

Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/1715247)
Customers hosting with ThePlanet, a major Texas hosting provider, are going through some tough times. Yesterday evening at 5:45 pm local time an electrical short caused a fire and explosion in the power room, knocking out walls and taking the entire facility offline. No-one was hurt and no servers were damaged. Estimates suggest 9,000 servers are offline, affecting 7,500 customers, with ETAs for repair of at least 24 hours from onset. While they claim redundant power, because of the nature of the problem they had to go completely dark. This goes to show that no matter how much planning you do, Murphy's Law still applies.




Pavan

[Brandon Martus]

Yep -- the server ChiefDelphi (and firstwiki) is on is hosted in Dallas, so it wasn't in any danger. Our DNS, however, is hosted in Houston .. so most people couldn't get to the server.

[wendymom]

Glad you are back.....and no one was injured

[Koko Ed]

Glad you are back.....and no one was injured

Except for our collective psyche....:D

[Mike Martus]

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

[KathieK]

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?
I did. *sigh*

[Protronie]

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

You should see my workshop... going to take a week to clean it up.
Its funny how "Hooked on Robotics" one can get... and how badly we start going to pieces and slinging tools around when our mainline goes down. :eek:

It wasn't pretty!

-p :cool:

[Cynette]

Whew! The twitch in my left eye is starting to subside now....

[dlavery]

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

<raises hand> But it had absolutely nothing to do with CD being inaccessible... :D

-d

[Koko Ed]

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

It's a good thing it was off season and not say the last Sunday in February or March. Then it would have got ugly.

[Brandon Martus]

It's a good thing it was off season and not say the last Sunday in February or March. Then it would have got ugly.
I would've fixed it way faster, then.

Off-season .. I just let things work out on their own.

[JaneYoung]

Well, lack of CD has made me a mite philosophical.

There was a time not too long ago when communications like this were not so instant, wide spread, and influential.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Regarding CD - it is a lonely thing when it is gone, I do know that. :)

Thank you to the folks who restored access.

[Dan Petrovic]

I was (kind of) freaking out because I had stuff I needed to post about Mayhem in Merrimack.

I even logged on before going to school to get it out.

I'm not exactly a morning person and I like being early to get a good parking space, so having any downtime in the morning is rare.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

I noticed that the TIMs accounts for teams were also down... Are the FIRST servers in Texas?

[JesseK]

Ha, go figure, some network servers at work were messed up. I contributed inability to get on CD to the inability to get on any external site altogether and vice versa, hence I never tried anything else on the internet until lunch time. See what happens when we use any one thing as a metric for other things?

[sgreco]

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

Not quite, but I realized how much time I actually spend here when I kept checking to see if I could get on every half hour. I guess Chief Delphi kind of spoils all of us, what would do if we didn't have Chief Delphi?:ahh:

[Billfred]

Funny--first one of my computers at work dies (which was followed by much configuring of a new one), then CD. What next? :eek:

(and yeah, add another one to the therapy set.)

[jblay]

i was freaking out not knowing what to do im so happy that i have my cd back

[JP the orange]

Im glad to see others survived the great CD blackout of '08 only to be rivaled to the Northeast Blackout of '03 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_North_America_blackout)

[Team 1708 Dave]

Gee I thought I was the only GEEK!! LOL It's amazing how addicting this site can be. There should be a 12 step program available for people who want to kick the processor..Hahaha Welcome Back All!!

[Travis Hoffman]

Is it me or are the CD notification emails taking some time to catch up? I received a "New Private Message" email for a PM I replied to about five hours previous. I'm also getting subscribed thread new post emails for posts I've already viewed. ;)

[synth3tk]

That downtime has affected gamers also. Ridiculous. I nearly lost my mind with *half of the internet brought down on it's knees. ThePlanet.com still has a few servers down, they got hit pretty hard by it.

Thankfully, I now have CD to read, at least.


*half = all servers hosted in Texas; is not an exact estimation, just my guess

[Q. Sheets]

Unfortunately, I didn't go insane... I knew a Martus would get it fixed in their spare time if need be. I was content with IRC for the time being... you know, #firstrobotics on freenode

[acdcfan259]

I still say Dave hijacked it to slip in some early subliminal game hints.

[dubious elise]

Wow - I read the article on Slashdot the other day but I didn't really think that it had affected anything that I browse - crazy!

[GaryVoshol]

I read a book.