Where did you go?
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Where did you go?
Since Sunday morning 16/05/2010 until late Tuesday evening 18/05/2010 the site has been AWOL
Last year we moved the site to a new server. On Sunday this server (at it's hosting company) ran out of disk space. You may have seen a message stating 'too many connections' to the SQL server as a result.
I contacted the provider who started investigating on Monday; as they were doing so the data partition of the disk became corrupt.
I'm unsure if they will recover it but fortunately we take daily backups of the entire site (Nearly 1Gb every night!)
A disaster recovery scenario had never been tested until now and thank fully the database backups seem to have worked nicely!
Anyway.. the site may seem a little slower at times as it is now running back on the smaller server version 1 used to live on.
Sorry folks.
Last year we moved the site to a new server. On Sunday this server (at it's hosting company) ran out of disk space. You may have seen a message stating 'too many connections' to the SQL server as a result.
I contacted the provider who started investigating on Monday; as they were doing so the data partition of the disk became corrupt.
I'm unsure if they will recover it but fortunately we take daily backups of the entire site (Nearly 1Gb every night!)
A disaster recovery scenario had never been tested until now and thank fully the database backups seem to have worked nicely!
Anyway.. the site may seem a little slower at times as it is now running back on the smaller server version 1 used to live on.
Sorry folks.
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Re: Where did you go?
Good job mate getting the backups up and running.

By the way, some parts of the forum may or may not be as it was for this short "emergency" period. (Such as image resizing in posts) Just stick with it for a while until the proper server is back online please.

By the way, some parts of the forum may or may not be as it was for this short "emergency" period. (Such as image resizing in posts) Just stick with it for a while until the proper server is back online please.
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Good job getting it sorted Matt 

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Testing the quick reply box.
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Re: Where did you go?
Your efforts are appreciated - deeply.
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Thanks for all your efforts, was getting withdrawal symptoms....lol.
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Cheers Matt, great work 
Any help from elizabeth?

Any help from elizabeth?
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She was fast asleep 

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Lost od help then- Supervised in saftey
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BumbleBee- The First AutoBot Puma
Mods- Tinted/ Pipercross Viper/ Exhaust- Custom Powerflow/ Lux Pack confirmed!/ Jacko MAF- There FTW/ 16inch SportKA Wheels/ 300mm Brakes/ Full JFS Yellow Under Bonnet Hoses/ 5 PP stickers in 3 colours/ ClarkieMod Grill/ Stripes/ Weitic Coilovers/ Polybushed/ Leather interior
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- pumapilot
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Good to see the site back up again, thanks to everyone involved
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Re: Where did you go?
Too many connections sounds more like someone was running a denial of service attack on the server tbh
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Re: Where did you go?
Was starting to panic for a bit there haha. It does sound like the typical DoS attack symptoms to me - server resources being dramatically drained :O
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It does sound like that but I doubt that's what it was. I've definitely had the same message when the disk ran out of space previously as the server was unable to allocate sockets for the connections.
I can't tell you for certain as it's hosted and I'm not in control of their security devices or the server itself.
Fortunately I am a Senior Network Security Consultant even my home firewall has IPS
(Means currently as the site is now hosted at my house temporarily I know exactly what's going on!)
I can't tell you for certain as it's hosted and I'm not in control of their security devices or the server itself.
Fortunately I am a Senior Network Security Consultant even my home firewall has IPS

(Means currently as the site is now hosted at my house temporarily I know exactly what's going on!)
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Haha good luck with that 

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Thank-you so so much for sorting this, and for taking backups! That was pretty good foresight 

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I had wondered why no-one was talking to me!
Thanks for all your efforts
Thanks for all your efforts

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WTF - it's gone!
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Re: Where did you go?
Who said that?
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Well done getting it back up and running - however, I cant seem to gain access to my gallery!
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I'll have a look
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cheers, I was denied access apparently! lolred wrote:I'll have a look

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Tina - Ex owner of Pips. Moondust 1.4 Lux.
Cars, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.”
it is better to spend one day as a tiger than a lifetime as a sheep...
Meets Attended: Sheffield Sept 2009 - Lymm (Warrington M56) April 2010, May 2010, July 2010, Sept 2010, Oct 2010, Nov 2010, Dec 2010 - Leicester March 2010
Cars, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.”
it is better to spend one day as a tiger than a lifetime as a sheep...
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Try now Tina?
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Re: Where did you go?
Yeah, same happened to me earlier when I tried to upload for next months car of the month.
All ok now though, cheers
EDIT:- Actually, tried to upload and just goes to a blank page
All ok now though, cheers

EDIT:- Actually, tried to upload and just goes to a blank page

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That could be the photo size?
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