[03-JUL-2013] Another outage caused by a mistake at the host

[Chloe]

@NightCrawl

@sb56637

@keltex78

@sb56637

@djozz

@sb56637

@keltex78

@djozz

I’m sorry to report a new problem as of today, whenever I hit the home-button at the bottom of the page I get to the page but I am also logged out, if I go there by hitting the recent posts-button, I stay logged in. This is new for me.

Same for me here… Clicking the banner at the top logs me out but clicking “Recent Posts” keeps me signed in.

Hmmm, strange. Please do the following: # Log out: http://budgetlightforum.com/logout # Clear all cookies for BLF from your browser # Log in again Please let me know if this works. Thanks! Sorry for the hassle.

I found just now that you are not really logged out after hitting the home-button, because if you subsequently hit recent posts again you are logged in again.

Hmm, did you follow those three steps I mentioned above? Thanks.

I did NOT follow the steps and it’s working properly for me now as well… :~ :party:

That’s better than the other alternative of FOLLOWING the steps and it NOT working.

I felt this needed another quote.

I couldn’t resist! >.<

[tallboybass]

Aw, that’s just not right! ^

[Chloe]

@lionheart_2281

Good work Mr Admin, we all appreciate the hard work you put into this forum.

+1

[Omega_17]

As for the polls, could you please provide some details about what doesn’t work?

Just realised that they now works for me today ! Thanks for all your work !

[gords1001]

@Omega_17

I sincerely hope this will be the last time,

Since I’m here there is multiple problems everyday so I don’t see why it could all have been fixed by magic since now ? (not mentioning not working polls and slowdowns)
Maybe by changing host or learning how to properly run a website ?
See you on the next outage and good luck ! :bigsmile:

you won’t get on very well here with that attitude sunshine.

mr admin is far too polite, but may I point out that if this entirely free to yourself resource does not meet your exacting standards, you may always vote with your feet.

[tallboybass]

@gords1001

@Omega_17

I sincerely hope this will be the last time,

Since I’m here there is multiple problems everyday so I don’t see why it could all have been fixed by magic since now ? (not mentioning not working polls and slowdowns)
Maybe by changing host or learning how to properly run a website ?
See you on the next outage and good luck ! :bigsmile:

you won’t get on very well here with that attitude sunshine.

mr admin is far too polite, but may I point out that if this entirely free to yourself resource does not meet your exacting standards, you may always vote with your feet.

I think/hope he was kidding.

[ryansoh3]

@gords1001

@Omega_17

I sincerely hope this will be the last time,

Since I’m here there is multiple problems everyday so I don’t see why it could all have been fixed by magic since now ? (not mentioning not working polls and slowdowns)
Maybe by changing host or learning how to properly run a website ?
See you on the next outage and good luck ! :bigsmile:

you won’t get on very well here with that attitude sunshine.

mr admin is far too polite, but may I point out that if this entirely free to yourself resource does not meet your exacting standards, you may always vote with your feet.

Couldn’t have said it any better myself! +1

[Old-Lumens]

@gords1001

@Omega_17

I sincerely hope this will be the last time,

Since I’m here there is multiple problems everyday so I don’t see why it could all have been fixed by magic since now ? (not mentioning not working polls and slowdowns) Maybe by changing host or learning how to properly run a website ? See you on the next outage and good luck ! :bigsmile:

you won’t get on very well here with that attitude sunshine. mr admin is far too polite, but may I point out that if this entirely free to yourself resource does not meet your exacting standards, you may always vote with your feet.

+1, sounds like another troll.

[Omega_17]

Sorry If I may have appear impolite but this is my opinion, not trying to follow the consensus for conformity sake but stating my view.
It can be irritating with all these many problems and I hope like everyone else it will now works fine.
Hey, at-least I’m not spamming empty messages and the admin give us a detailed explanation !

[Bort]

@Omega_17

Sorry If I may have appear impolite but this is my opinion, not trying to follow the consensus for conformity sake but stating my view.
It can be irritating with all these many problems and I hope like everyone else it will now works fine.
Hey, at-least I’m not spamming empty messages and the admin give us a detailed explanation !

I agree that the site not working properly is very, very irritating, but i also know that mr admin is doing his best, he is putting a lot of time and work into making it work properly, and he is not trying to cover up his own mistakes, he is being transparent, changing hosts when necessary, he is working hard on it and he is apologetic.
What more do you want?
An expectation of perfection is setting yourself up for disappointment because life happens no matter what your expectations are, if you can only chide people for doing their best, being fully honest and then some then you sound like your a cold hearted person.

Besides, once things are working again BLF will go back to functioning correctly and we will all forget about this annoying time and life goes on, hopefully with improved relability.

[NightCrawl]

There is always some trouble involved when you grow too big for your old host and have to move to another.. troubleshooting takes some time.

But you obviously arent active over at CPF, downtimes like the past days here are considered a normal day over there. ;)

[tallboybass]

@Omega_17

Sorry If I may have appear impolite but this is my opinion, not trying to follow the consensus for conformity sake but stating my view.
It can be irritating with all these many problems and I hope like everyone else it will now works fine.
Hey, at-least I’m not spamming empty messages and the admin give us a detailed explanation !

It doesn’t just ‘appear’ impolite… …it is.

[hhaappii]

Glad to be back!

[sb56637]

Hi everyone, you probably noticed a brief blip. I just rebooted to refresh a configuration change. (Yes, I know it’s possible to reboot just specific services and not the whole system, but I changed the hostname, so rebooting was easiest in this case.)

[B42]

Well, I think we’ll just assume you did something else irresponsible to knock the server offline every time and curse you because we paid good money for this service and your position here is due to the permission of everyone involved!….oh wait…no we didn’t…and we are here because of your work and your permission…. Thanks! its no problem!

[sb56637]

@B42

Well, I think we’ll just assume you did something else irresponsible to knock the server offline every time and curse you because we paid good money for this service and your position here is due to the permission of everyone involved!….oh wait…no we didn’t…and we are here because of your work and your permission…. Thanks! its no problem!

Thanks for the support.

[sb56637]

@sb56637

Hi everyone, you probably noticed a brief blip. I just rebooted to refresh a configuration change. (Yes, I know it’s possible to reboot just specific services and not the whole system, but I changed the hostname, so rebooting was easiest in this case.)

OK, I’m done now.

[gords1001]

@B42

Well, I think we’ll just assume you did something else irresponsible to knock the server offline every time and curse you because we paid good money for this service and your position here is due to the permission of everyone involved!….oh wait…no we didn’t…and we are here because of your work and your permission…. Thanks! its no problem!

couldn’t have put it better myself, cheers sb, your a good ’un

[ryansoh3]

I think there is a bug where everything, including our user names, appears to be in italics (or even bolded)

Is FastTech going SlowTech?

I just got my shipping info for my latest order from FastTech, and they sent it via Singapore Post. What's with that?

[Pulsar]

hey... dont rat us out!

what happened was someone (wont name names) left out a closing tag on italics... and then some jerk did it with bold... some peoples children i tell ya