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This isn't a new bug, but it isn't possible to sponsor through paypal. It reports no subscriptions available.

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Yea when the site went down I was hoping they were making improvements to the spam filter. Well O well, I hope they get it fixed by the time of FRC 2014 kickoff or who know the person spamming will increase their spamming.

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I saw a small amount of time on 11/13 at around 10:11PM that the server was down, even checked with isitdownrightnow.com and downforeveryoneorjustme.com and they both saw it down as well. Was this just a small update? or was there another failure of some sort? or was it just me?

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Nothing went on that I know of .. the monitoring I was using was every 30 min. I just switched over to a new monitor to check every 5 min., in case it happens again.

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Like i said, most likely my own user error, though I do wonder why those two sites saw it as "down" as well :eek:

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This is off topic, but do you have any backup service like CloudFlare? What about a backup server, or even a node system, where users can install an app on their computer which will allow their computers to be a server (very low load), especially during peak times?

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Maybe the internet connection just had a "hiccup." This means that the connection will be lost for a few seconds to a few minutes and then reconnect.

I saw a backup occur at 11 est, rather then later. Seems like another Utc bug.

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I may not have restarted Apache after fixing the timezone.

If I remember, I'll check tonight at 11 to see if it's still happening. (Should be happening at 4am eastern).

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There was a backup at 12 today. You may want to change that to a weekly or monthly backup instead because for us, in the west coast, this is the time that we finish our homework and actually get active online

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This should happen at 4am Eastern .. I've made another change to the schedule.

Let me know if it comes up again tonight.

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I wonder who surfs at 4AM? Also, why do you go by daily backups? I back up my website every three months. Also, if anything seems to be brewing, I have the ability to switch hard drives and move the data flawlessly.

As a matter of fact, I haven't backed up my server yet! I should maybe have a shadow copy of the database in the eMMC, but it doesn't really matter because the hard drive is only an year old

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4AM eastern is 1AM pacific. I know that I am sometimes on at midnight. Also I would think CD is used quite a bit more frequently than your personal website.

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I agree with that. That is why I don't like the idea of having daily backups, where the entire site is shut down!

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The backups are quick and if it is what is needed to potentially save a month worth of data then it is completely with it IMO.