Hurrah
Now notifies are working again…
For now. Until the next time.
Now notifies are working again…
For now. Until the next time.
Hi all, Well, so far the server move is progressing along nicely. It's always slower than one would like and there will be things that don't go to plan. But at the moment it's looking reasonable. Some things to bear in mind at present. Not everything has yet moved. Hamipiks, OpenFiction and some other…
The database failed overnight leaving the service completely dead about 5 minutes after I went to bed. A query which went bad brought the server down by locking all the tables while it attempted to join together millions of rows (actually probably 100’s of millions of rows) which ran all night and actually never returned….
I’ve presently removed ALL public images from the system and am in the process of re-approving the reasonably useful ones. Over the last 4 years we’ve gathered a huge amount (somewhere around 32,000) images and a lot of them just don’t work well as backgrounds or buttons and such like. So there’s now going to…
Hotmail address will no longer receive notifys from DearDiary.Net. Too many people are signing up for notification of new/updated entries and then a few months later they forget that they’ve done it and instead of reading the message and following the instructions to remove themselves from the notify list, they’re marking the message as spam….
If you’re reading this, you’re talking to our new server, in a new datacentre, on a new hosting provider… Hopefully everything works OK – some of the ‘user data’ is still being copied across so you might not see your proper index texts or individual buttons for a few more hours – but they’re coming…
Hi folks, Just to let you all know, todays outage was unrelated to Sunday’s downtime, although, as a result of the fulltext indexes it meant that todays failure was excerbated by the extreme slowness of rebuilding the indexes after a failure. So, what do we learn from this experience to endeavour to ensure it doesn’t…
Sounds to me like you need a nice cup of tea and a choc chip cookie. Thanks for all you do 🙂
Steve…you rock!
🙂
Thank you for all your hard work. You are Tha Man!!
I am on the notification list as far as I know.. I did check it
and I am having trouble that you can’t fix.. My entries are listed sometimes several times.. It is probably my dsl.. If I don’t contact you about it, don’t worry about it
Thanx though
peggy