Boards.ie working?

Hi sluice,

It looks like they are still down (8:00 Wed 19th Jan)
ajapale
 
This is from a mailing list I'm on :0

Yes, our main server had a snafu last night during an upgrade to the OS.
It seemingly thinks its a toaster or something now.
"When OS upgrades go bad!"

We are taking the opportunity to move the server and change a
few things around with the setup. It will return tomorrow most likely
and hosted webcontent soon after.

I'm also setting up an admin blog on a separate host (using my favoured
TypePad) so that we can have at least another way of explaining outages
and communicating with everyone. (and no, I'm not that dirty old man :) )

Its funny innit, when you take something for granted and
suddenly its removed, I always wonder what I did before Boards.
Invariably the answer is: work :)
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My God. Imagine all those board'ers who'll have to do work instead!

Me included. God bless you AAM.
 
I haven't done so much work since it went down.
My boss will think I'm looking for a pay rise!
 
It's quite worrying. We are looking at moving Askaboutmoney to vBulletin which is what Boards.ie uses. The BIG advantage of ezBoard is that it is hosted. Outages are rare.

Brendan
 
I don't see how vBB is the problem in this context? Seems to me that it's more of a hosting service reliability problem.
 
vBB gets my vote. Never had any problems with the many vBB boards I peruse. The only thing I don't like about boards is their minimum string length for searches.

I just hope we don't keep the 'mauve' theme when/if we move :)
 
"The only thing I don't like about boards is their minimum string length for searches."

I scoot around a good few vBB sites. Boards.ie is the only one that really bogged down my 'puter if I opened more than half a threads in different windows. Never got to the bottom of it but dont like it ( I dont go there any more )
 
vBulletin is software which allows you to create a forums based website like Askaboutmoney (which uses ezBoard). ezBoard, however, also host the forum while vBB is just the software.
 
Hi
The problem is with one of their servers-not with vbulletin.
 
The only thing I don't like about boards is their minimum string length for searches.
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The reason for this is because it is a big site-it doesn't index on less than 3 chars, causes indexes would be too big. Searching without using the index would be too slow and not too good for the performance of the server.
 
Boards.ie is the only one that really bogged down my 'puter if I opened more than half a threads in different windows. Never got to the bottom of it but dont like it
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Me too - Opening multiple windows is very slow.
 
Might be worth trying a different browser.

Whenever boards.ie resurfaces ...
 
Whenever boards.ie resurfaces...

Now 32 hours & counting...

They'll be fishing the netheads out of the Liffey by morning! :lol
 
Re: Whenever boards.ie resurfaces...

Tx for the explanation.
It was back around 1.00am but it's gone again now.
 
Re: Whenever boards.ie resurfaces...

This is the msg I got this am (Friday 21st Jan at 8:20)

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.
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