ADVANCED WARNING OF DOWN TIME

[BossHogg]

Hi all, this is an advanced warning of down time, we will be down for approximately 30 minutes for server upgrade. This will be happening towards the end of the month, @MattW will advise us when it's going ahead.

 

[Posyrose]

Thanks boss

 

[VickiA]

Thanks Boss

 

[fluffysal]

How will I manage for 30 whole minutes!

 

[BossHogg]

That's providing it goes smoothly!

 

[Lorcan]

How will I manage for 30 whole minutes!

I guess we'll have to actually...do stuff?

 

[BossHogg]

The last we had a down time, I had to talk to my wife, I didn't know she'd finished working at Woolworths!

 

[MattW]

30 minutes is a worse case. I've got this type of work down to a few minutes, because I stage everything prior to the work starting

 

[Betsy]

You mean I'll have to find something else to do?

 

[weepweeps]

30 minutes is a worse case. I've got this type of work down to a few minutes, because I stage everything prior to the work starting

Thanks @MattW. You’re a life saver.

30mins :

I could have a nap,
Eat some chocolate,
Drink some Sambucca,
Or Read my book.

What will a choose. lol.

 

[weepweeps]

Well actually I could do all three if I don’t have a nap.

 

[BossHogg]

Living life dangerously I see?

 

[Merab]

Thanks @MattW and @BossHogg .
I might end up working on my jigsaw puzzle

 

[Bill & Ted]

I’ll be in Norfolk on holiday so I doubt if I’ll get chance to be around on the forum

 

[Minnou]

Great! 30 minutes (hopefully!) where I can be as mediocre a Slave as possible and Gaia won't be able to tell on me!

 

[Qualcast&Flymo]

30 minutes is a worse case. I've got this type of work down to a few minutes, because I stage everything prior to the work starting

You should go to work for the banks or airlines, they could do with someone who knows how to do IT upgrades efficiently

 

[MattW]

Site is pretty quiet currently. I'm going to close the board, and do the maintenance. Should be about 10 minutes with the board closed.

 

[MattW]

Site is pretty quiet currently. I'm going to close the board, and do the maintenance. Should be about 10 minutes with the board closed.

Done

6 minutes

 

[BossHogg]

Excellent, well done

 

[Lorcan]

And I missed it because I was chatting with my neighbour

But really, thanks @MattW!

 

[MattW]

Just making a change to the caching mechanism we use on the back end, shouldn't see any difference on the forum itself.

 

[VickiA]

Thank you @MattW

 

[Merab]

Thanks Matt

 

[Wiebke]

Thank you for keeping the forum running smoothly.

 

[MattW]

I'm doing a bit more work on the back end, so attachments might look funny for the next couple of hours.

 

[ScrufflesRules]

That means I'm going to have to do something productive, instead of scrolling through piggy pictures for hours!

 

[MattW]

/data/ directory has been moved to Cloud storage.

Working on /internal_data/ now for full size attachments.

 

[MattW]

All done. Attachments are now stored and served from Cloud storage.

 

[BossHogg]

Thanks for all your hard work @MattW

 

[Merab]

Thanks @MattW . Your hard work is appreciated.