Server Restored

[Joe Ross]

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

[mechanical_robot]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

And spam is back up again too. Sigh.

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.

[Invictus3593]

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?

[Brandon Martus]

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.

[Invictus3593]

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

[yash101]

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?

[yash101]

Originally Posted by Invictus3593

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

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.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Yep, timezone was set incorrectly (UTC).

Should be fixed now.

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

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

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

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).

[yash101]

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

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by yash101

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

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

Let me know if it comes up again tonight.

[yash101]

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

[MichaelBick]

Originally Posted by yash101

I wonder who surfs at 4AM?

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.

[yash101]

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

[MichaelBick]

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.