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Downtime Today(5/13/17)

Discussion in 'Announcements and Rules' started by tehelgee, May 13, 2017.

  1. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    What happened is that the server's HD filled up on us(our current hosting plan has a rather small allotted disk space) at a time when alethiophile was away for a while. We're working on long term solutions for this.
     
    tehelgee, May 13, 2017
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  2. steamrick

    steamrick Matter: protons, electrons, neutrons and morons

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    Glad to see you know what's going on.

    I guess the only real solution is to get a bigger HDD?


    edit: Posting's still wonky for me though and it seems this thread got double posted.
     
    steamrick, May 13, 2017
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  3. Vox De Harlequin

    Vox De Harlequin Self-Taught Black Magic Initiate

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    So I'm going to guess the problems may come from a little factoid I read recently on how you automatically rehost images posted on the forum.
    On the one hand, that's nice because it prevents dead image links.
    But on the other, that's gotta eat up a shit load of space.
     
    Vox De Harlequin, May 16, 2017
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  4. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    Nah, not images. Server was keeping a library of backups. Now the server retains a smaller number of them.
     
    tehelgee, May 16, 2017
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  5. steamrick

    steamrick Matter: protons, electrons, neutrons and morons

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    That'll work, but it's a mid-term solution at best...

    I'm pretty sure QQ is still growing membership and even if it wasn't, people are posting all the time. Storage space will run out again eventually and getting rid of all backups would be foolish.
     
    steamrick, May 16, 2017
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  6. Walkir

    Walkir Super Happy Awesome Fun Time On Vacation

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    Also really messes up the URLs...
     
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  7. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    Backups on the server are not the only backups. alethiophile downloads each backup and stores them on his machine too.

    If it becomes necessary, we have some options in regards to upgrading our host server, don't worry.
     
    tehelgee, May 17, 2017
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