[Fury]

We have planned to make some server maintenance on next sunday (12th). So please be prepared for extended downtime, exact lenght of this planned maintenance is yet unknown. If all goes smoothly, it will be only half-a-day, but if there are complications... well you know the drill. And before you start yelling on my face, we're expecting this to fix the frequent downtimes. This scheduled maintenance might be postponed to later time if there are any real-life issues coming up.

[Unknown Target]

About damn time.

[achtung]

Yay!

[Cobra]

about the forums going down on sunday, and the most-likely-longer-than-half-day downtime, i say: ****.

about fixing everything: yay!

[WMCoolmon]

Mmm, good. If this keeps up I simply won't be able to access HLP at all.

[Taristin]

If all goes smoothly, it will be only half-a-day, but if there are complications... well you know the drill. And before you start yelling on my face, we're expecting this to fix the frequent downtimes.

In an ironic twist, it was all of those downtimes that have gotten us used to and prepared for this

[FireCrack]

will the search be fixed?

[CP5670]

At least if it fixes the daily downtimes for good, it will be well worth it.

[Scuddie]

I hope to hell the forum software is upgraded to 1.1 RC2, if not atleast 1.0.6, so we don't have to use slow as hell SQL calls.

[Fury]

The maintenance on sunday is only planned to include server softwares, not forums. The forums will be updated only after the maintenance on sunday is completed and tested to be working. However, SimpleMachines have not yet released final version of SMF 1.1. There is still a high chance that the final version will be released this month.

[Charismatic]

Mmm, good. If this keeps up I simply won't be able to access HLP at all.

Seconded. Siggied.

[Fury]

Let's see if that maintenance did any good. The main purpose of this maintenance was to put a stop for the frequent downtimes. We will tweak software settings a bit further to improve performance slightly, as we gather some data from normal usage.

[Fury]

Anyone encountered any problems since last sunday's maintenance? RAR files opening as text files has already been reported.

[Mr_Maniac]

No... Nothing negative...

But the Forum seems to be much faster

[CP5670]

Everything looks good to me. It came back up faster than I expected. The only thing I can see is these weird  characters in a few posts that weren't there before.

[Scuddie]

I can verify for the special characters.  On one thread there were so many of them, I thought the server had crashed.  A refresh of the page made them go away.

Also, it seems less sluggish, but it still seems that some QoS problems are there.  Server will choke for a 30 seconds or so, every 20ish thread visits.  It's quite irritating, but nothing terrible.

[Taristin]

So, is Skippy gonna be the 14th admin for his help?

[Fury]

No, we have a different agreement on his position, for now.

[StratComm]

Anyone encountered any problems since last sunday's maintenance? RAR files opening as text files has already been reported.

I'm not sure if that's a site issue or a browser-related one.  I'm assuming the problem links have been SCP recent builds, I get the same thing if I'm linking to them straight out of file listings on warpcore.org and with the download links on scp.indiegames.us.  I think that may be a firefox 1.5 problem.

[Fury]

Yes, Firefox is opening rar files as text files if rar mime type is not added to the web server. It is missing from warpcore.org, but has been added to this server.