CF server problems - will take some time to fix

[Erwin]

CF had some downtime just now for about 30 minutes - we are investigating the cause. Sorry about that!

[Erwin]

The techs are making some major database changes so the database server has just been rebooted. Thanks for your patience.

[Breaking Babylon]

Thank you very much, Erwin.

[Taylor43]

Thankyou Erwin praying for you. Coputers you love them until they give you a hardtime. I love this site but i know to keep it up takes allot of work. I am helping a friend in Sydney her sites goes down allot and she has to do allot technology she buys and stuff. You do allot of hardwork thankyou so much for making this site so people of all denominations can be united together in Jesus
God Bless
Taylor

[Angeldove97]

Thanks for letting us know Erwin! ^_^

[bubblefish]

Thankyou Erwin for all the hard work you do :)

[fratz]

is this place still broken?

[FriendsFellowship]

is this place still broken?
Well, not completely!

CF is running quite slow though.

I'm sure Erwin will have it ship shape soon!

[Erwin]

CF is suffering some major server problems at the moment - it's unclear if we are under a DDOS attack or if it's something else. The techs are working at the datacenter trying to troubleshoot this. We've actually changed from Apache back to lighttpd to see if it would help but it didn't. We are looking at changing from FreeBSD over to CentOS at the moment and to a completely new server cluster.

Please be patient while this occurs. This is happening when I'm about to leave work to move house so I won't have broadband for a few days. Thanks for being patient and understanding!

[Jim47]

It seems to be working better now Erwin,

Thanks :thumbsup:

[nvrbnunloved]

:sigh: still going crazy....

[JJay]

CF is suffering some major server problems at the moment - it's unclear if we are under a DDOS attack or if it's something else. The techs are working at the datacenter trying to troubleshoot this. We've actually changed from Apache back to lighttpd to see if it would help but it didn't. We are looking at changing from FreeBSD over to CentOS at the moment and to a completely new server cluster.

Please be patient while this occurs. This is happening when I'm about to leave work to move house so I won't have broadband for a few days. Thanks for being patient and understanding!


I just couldn't sign on at all for the past two days. In the morning I could but just a bit ago nope, I would click to come into the forums and it wouldn't do nothing, Not a thing.

The problem I thought started when I download the new windows Live Toolbar and so I untill it, now I'm online again so far but it might be your end that is fixing it so I don't know, it is slow hope all is well.

[DanP]

I work for the hosting company that Erwin uses, Erwin is tied up right now, but please rest assured we are working as fast as we can to fix the server issues.

[tapero]

I work for the hosting company that Erwin uses, Erwin is tied up right now, but please rest assured we are working as fast as we can to fix the server issues.

Thank you Dan for leaving this message for us! God bless you!

[pgp_protector]

:clap:

Appears to be working now

[Angeldove97]

Ya things are starting to work alot better! ^_^

[JoshuaCh1v9]

Seems fine just now.

At least we know what the problem is now (even if I didn't understand most of it.lol)

[krstlros]

Thanks Dan and Erwin for all your hard work. It is very much appreciated. :)

[thereselittleflower]

Still having problems with speed here . . but it is better than it has been . .

Also, suddenly, when trying to search own posts, I get a message that says

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.


This happens no matter how I try to access this feature.

Is this part of the server issues? Or is this a bug that needs to be reported in the bug forum?

[yenguccia]

;) hello! i was wondering what happened because i couldn't get in CF.Thank you..im sure it will be solved soon..God bless you! missing CF:cry:

[pgp_protector]

;) hello! i was wondering what happened because i couldn't get in CF.Thank you..im sure it will be solved soon..God bless you! missing CF:cry:

Umm it is fixed now ;) :)

[nvrbnunloved]

Umm it is fixed now ;) :)
Actually there still seem to be a lot of problems of various kinds going on around CF, so hopefully we'll hear from Erwin or one of his team soon to let us know how the repair work is going ;)

[pdudgeon]

yep, still noticing slower page loads when we get to 1900+members online, and i found out that it's not just me.

[encouraging loves animals]

Seems to be alright for me at the moment.

[Erwin]

I work for the hosting company that Erwin uses, Erwin is tied up right now, but please rest assured we are working as fast as we can to fix the server issues.
Wow, Dan signed up! :)

Anyway, Dan's the man for the servers. I think the search slave database server issues is causing the search bugs. Also some weird password problems for staff. I'll look into them myself.

[nvrbnunloved]

Thanks for the update, Erwin :thumbsup: Hope your house move went well :)

[MyHeartIsAllForU]

Not only over 1900 does the problem start up. I've noticed it likes to happen in the very early morning too.

Dan you rock! :thumbsup:

[day2day]

Thank You again Erwin & Dan!

[Erwin]

Okey dokey - I've fixed up the 3rd webserver which was playing up - Dan (and Steve) I've upgrade Apache to 2.2.x - also reinstalled PHP 5.1.x on all webservers so that it's not in CGI mode - also reinstalled APC on all webservers. Working fine now. Also added the ntpupdate clock sync in crontab for 3rd webserver to sync time.

I've also recalibrated the slave search database and restarted both db servers so now they are in sync again. Let's hope it stays that way!

It's late here (12:31 am) so time to sleep - need to go to work tomorrow! :)

Let me know if there are further problems. My apologies for the past few days of issues.

[Daisysqueaks]

Thanks Erwin, Dan and Steve!:wave:

[MsAnne]

Erwin- Thank you.
I am so embarrassed for the behavior of some of the people on this board. Please just know it is not the majority. You are appreciated. Not being a computer person, I can't even fathom the time involved in all you do - but I am thankful that you do it.

[krstlros]

Thanks Erwin, Dan and Steve.

You guys totally rock. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

God's blessings to all of you for all your hard work and dedication.

[icedtea]

Its impossible to see any subscribed threads.

[nvrbnunloved]

Erwin- Thank you.
I am so embarrassed for the behavior of some of the people on this board. Please just know it is not the majority. You are appreciated. Not being a computer person, I can't even fathom the time involved in all you do - but I am thankful that you do it.
Seconded :thumbsup:

[Erwin]

Dan/Steve - I installed memcached server on the image server and memcache on all webservers - just so you know - working better than APC! :)