Just a quick note about the site being offline, when I tried to log in 15 minutes ago the connection timed out, I raised the issue xith Xilo and we now seem to be back online, though running a little bit choppy at the moment.
I'm not sure how long the site was offline for so my apologies if you could not connect. I'll be keeping my eye on it.
Cheers.
Further to the above, just had some more info from Xilo.
"
Juliet - Server Replacement
1:00am, 14th November 2010
This is advance notice that we will be replacing the JULIET server due to recent instability.
It appears the hardware is slowly failing and now we are seeing spurious reboots and loss of BIOS settings.
No date has been yet set for this work to be completed but we will update the status posting once this has been arranged.
This change is required to resume normal stability of the server.
6:00am, 14th November 2010
Expected end time.
"
So I think we can expect periods of downtime until they've replaced the old server, hopefully they'll be short periods.
So, I am lucky to get connected :)
Thanks for telling us everything :)
I had this on their Indigo server a few years ago. It hasn't happened since though, so they've been looking after it well. The same should happen on this server.
aw darn just my luck :) just as my creative juices start get going again the site has problems.
tbh iv not had a single problem with the forum though.
Please keep using the site Nino, my post is a bit of a heads up about the intermittent stuff that's been happening lately. It will all be sorted soon, as CK says.
The biggest arse ache I have at the moment are the droves of spambots which have got through the site security.. I deleted over 400 fake accounts so far.
I've made some modifications to the site templates today that should trip up a lot of the bots, fingers crossed.
Hooray! Finally I coded something, even if it is only PHP... . . .
good stuff with the coding :)
i noticed there has been something going on as of late but didnt realise it was bots or it was that bad!!
its really nice to be back. i love that this place is always here for me to hang out.
Damn, Shocky - sorry to hear that.
If I can help you with some stuff - just drop me a note.
Keep your head up and thanks for cleaning those robot scum.