Known Server Issue

Anti-Trend · 15-04-2008, 12:09 AM

We had a hiccup on the VPS hardwareforums.com is hosted on earlier today, causing the entire site to go down for about 30 minutes. We apologize for the difficulty; it seems to have been caused by a capacity-related problem on our host. I'm personally looking into what might've caused the issue, and will work towards a permanent resolution to prevent this from ever happening again.

All the best,
-AT
(Admin, hardwareforums.com)

ferg · 14-04-2008, 11:34 PM

*cheers that HWF is back up*

Anti-Trend · 15-04-2008, 01:30 AM

The problem ended up being a forgotten cron script that one of us had written a long time ago. It was creating backups but never rotating them, so they eventually filled up the storage capacity of our server. The old backups have been cleaned up, we re-wrote the cron script so it won't happen again, and also took the opportunity to institute secure offsite backups.

In short, the problem is resolved and should not reoccur in the foreseeable future.

Thanks for your patience,
-AT
(Admin, hardwareforums.com)

15-04-2008, 12:09 AM	#1 (permalink) Top
Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek Join Date: Oct 2003 Age: 27 Male Posts: 4,882 Times Helpful: 538 Status: Offline My Computer	Known Server Issue We had a hiccup on the VPS hardwareforums.com is hosted on earlier today, causing the entire site to go down for about 30 minutes. We apologize for the difficulty; it seems to have been caused by a capacity-related problem on our host. I'm personally looking into what might've caused the issue, and will work towards a permanent resolution to prevent this from ever happening again. All the best, -AT (Admin, hardwareforums.com) __________________ See My Desktop \| Try Linux \| Install Linux \| Visit My Server \| Support Hardware Forums \| Easily rip DVDs in Linux \| Remember Everything

14-04-2008, 11:34 PM	#2 (permalink) Top
ferg Manbearpig Join Date: May 2004 Age: 25 Male Posts: 539 Times Helpful: 26 My Mood: Innocent Status: Offline My Computer	cheers that HWF is back up __________________ FREE STUFF Spybot S&D Ad-Aware Spyware Blaster Comodo Free Firewall Speedfan Ad Block Plus (Plugin for Firefox)

15-04-2008, 01:30 AM	#3 (permalink) Top
Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek Join Date: Oct 2003 Age: 27 Male Posts: 4,882 Times Helpful: 538 Status: Offline My Computer	The problem ended up being a forgotten cron script that one of us had written a long time ago. It was creating backups but never rotating them, so they eventually filled up the storage capacity of our server. The old backups have been cleaned up, we re-wrote the cron script so it won't happen again, and also took the opportunity to institute secure offsite backups. In short, the problem is resolved and should not reoccur in the foreseeable future. Thanks for your patience, -AT (Admin, hardwareforums.com) __________________ See My Desktop \| Try Linux \| Install Linux \| Visit My Server \| Support Hardware Forums \| Easily rip DVDs in Linux \| Remember Everything

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