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Eagle
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Joined: Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:09 pm
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 Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Hey guys,
Thanks first off for your patience, it's been a rough two days.
On April 8th, my birthday of all days, our web hosting provider ceased to exist. We had been using a company called Dedicated Place, a reseller who purchased unmanaged servers at bulk prices from a web host called Layered Technology who hosted them. Dedicated Place then managed them for various people, us included.
Apparently, Dedicated Place hasn't been paying their bills, so Layered Technology unplugged all the servers they had, which included ours.
Now initially, I was told by Dedicated Place that the outage was due to a network issue, and that everything was being worked on. 12 hours later, Dedicated Place was no longer in existence, and I was involved in a complete mess of a situation!
Since then I have been working with Layered Technology to pay to get our server plugged back in, transfer ownership of the server to me (from Dedicated Place), and a variety of other things. We payed Dedicated Place monthly for our servers, and of course, they took our money and ran. To get our servers turned back on, we had to fork out a hefty transfer/setup fee and pay Layered Technology for hosting, at a rate that is an increase of 20% from what we had been paying.
As you can imagine, it's been a mess.
That said, the bills are all paid, we're back up and running, and we will likely be either looking for a new web host or moving to a new server with Layered Technology to lower costs.
Deep breath.
I think the worst is over, everything is in tact, sorry again for the downtime.
KJ
A few people have PM'ed me asking how much this cost us, and if donations are needed. For those interested:
We lost $120 which Dedicated Place took an ran with, then had to pay $50 for transfer/setup fees to get the server plugged back in, and had to pay our new monthly rate of $142 a month.
As for donating, things remain just as they were before. Everything is paid for. Arsi, Loyal and I are happy to foot the bill, and will continue to do so. Anyone who wants to help is, as always, welcome to donate.
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Libs
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thanks for all the hard work to try to do repairs. We appreciate ittttt
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thank-you, indeed!
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Barrabás
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thanks for taking care of this Eagle!
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Riggs
We had our time together
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FILMO
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thanks  _________________Libs wrote: FILMO, I'd rather have you eat chocolate syrup off my naked body than be a moderator here.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thanks guys!
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Much appreciated.
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MikeQ.
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown As always, thanks to all of you for the hard work and effort. The dedication to running this site is nothing short of excellent.
Peace,
Mike
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BJ
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown you guys rock major  _________________The Force Awakens
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xiayun
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thanks so much! Great work as always. And that's still an expensive monthly bill; definitely want to chip in to help.
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Eagle
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown My semester ends in about two weeks, then I'll start looking around. Hopefully I can find a new provider offering a better server at a lower price to get it back down to where we were before.
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Jmart
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown _________________My DVD Collection
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thanks guys you are great, just glad it is back. Sorry to hear about the problems. Those guys should go to jail for ripping people off.
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Eagle
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Jedi Master Carr wrote: Thanks guys you are great, just glad it is back. Sorry to hear about the problems. Those guys should go to jail for ripping people off. There in another country, otherwise they would be dealing with a load of legal problems. _________________
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown I am sorry you got such a mess on your birthday, Happy Belated Birthday!
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Oh, yeah, definitely happy belated birthday, Karl.
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown thanks guys, really
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Eagle wrote: Jedi Master Carr wrote: Thanks guys you are great, just glad it is back. Sorry to hear about the problems. Those guys should go to jail for ripping people off. Oh that sucks, well at least you got the site back up, hopefully you will find a better deal. There in another country, otherwise they would be dealing with a load of legal problems.
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown This is the greatest day of my life.
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jujubee
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Do you currently have a dedicated server or what? I'd be happy to help look into other options.
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thanks for getting your site back up Eagle!
I was in KJ withdrawal the last two days and was just DYING to post in the tv forum in the AI thread but couldn't. I was wishing to view the political forum and watercooler forum but couldn't. It was almost unbearable!
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Eagle
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown jujubee wrote: Do you currently have a dedicated server or what? I'd be happy to help look into other options. Yeah, we run a dedicated server. I think the specs are: AMD 64 Athlon 3200/1024MB/80GB with a Centos 3.X OS, a Plesk control panel, and somewhere between 1000 and 2000GB of transfer per month. It was a managed server, though currently, it isn't since Dedicated Place used to hold that duty. The specs will be easily upgrade as we got this server like two years ago, so while they were decent then, there on the lower end now (though still get the job done). _________________
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown Thank you..
At least, I now realize I could barely pass a day life without KJ ..
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Re: Server Issues -- Here's the Rundown kudos to eagle on everything. he took care of all this singlehandedly. i sat there and looked pretty.
happy belated birthday. i an't believe my only birthday present to you was a link to something terribly bitchy
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