Forum Downtime

[Ashley Cawley]

Apologies for the downtime folks but the community is now back online. I fear we might have lost 12 hours worth of data from before the forum went offline but other than that all should be in order.

Thank you for everyone's patience and support whilst the site & community has been down.
T^

It's a long-story but to put it short; there was a critical upgrade to MySQL that needed to be performed on the server (if not done it would likely resort in the site being hacked)... this upgrade was straight-forward but an engineer at the datacenter was also using this maintenance window as a oppertunity to move our virtual server to a new host, they cocked this up and then disappeared leaving us powerless for a long durations, they've been pants at getting back to us but they have been working hard to resolve it, we've moved everything to a new (hopefully more stable) server now. We certainly have more control over this one so shouldn't have to rely on others so much.

- Witchcraft I know :(

[Martin]

Welcome back everyone. The smell of fresh paint is quite nice. :)

Martin

[rosseveritt]

Yay! It's back. Well done all concerned. :)

[luresalive]

Bloomin heck, felt the DT's happening there

[Tony1948]

Well done guys good to have you all back,Arrrrr I mist you all,oh and ash dont do it again,evon my misses was getting concerned,I was getting withdraw simptons:welcome:Back all.

[FishyFolk]

Thanks a lot, good to get my fix before hitting the flea box....

[CanadianMike]

Yay! It's back. Well done all concerned. :)

Was going to say similar, easier to quote you. :D

Well done guys, I missed the place!

[AL...]

Thanks for the hard work ye put in Ash and everyone involved .
Funny thing ..... My hands have stopped shaking now :D


Cheers
AL

[AdrianRose]

I would like to complain in the strongest terms about the recent forum downtime.

I am disgusted that due to the lack of Natural Bushcraft and the inclement weather I was forced to stay at home and actually talk to my wife for 2 days!!

I hope that I will never be subjected to this type of mental and emotional abuse again.

Lol. Seriously tho folks, thanks for all the hard work behind the scenes to bring NB back on line for all our enjoyment.

All the best and thanks again

Ade.

[happybonzo]

Well done for getting the website back so quickly. I thought for one horrid minute that NB had subject to a denial of service attack

[JonnyP]

Well done guys :0)

[Ben Casey]

WB Mate I thought you had left me and I was broken hearted :( Na good to see your bak up and running I missed getting on :D

[Ben Casey]

Is it just me or is it faster to now :)

[alvino78]

just going taking down the noose from the garage.......glad i lack guts and put it off a while!!!! good to see we are all back and great work Ash!!!

[paulthefish2009]

Phew! glad your all back,my wife caught me looking at the blank screen last night and told me to grow up :ashamed: .Still some good did come out of it went and ordered my self a spyderco bug and a syvord peasent from heinnie haynes(yes yes yes I know I just spelt that second knife wrong,sorry it's just a mental thing). Paul

[biker-bri]

As a relative new comer to the natural bushcraft community, I was beginning to wander what I did in my spare time before finding this wonderful site, and as I was looking for something totally different at the time, I'm beggared if I can remember what it was?

[Hushwing]

Can't top anything you've all said - totally agree and thanks.
Ade - in order to avoid such abuse again - take up bat watching - it fills your night and at least when the little beggars squawk at you, you can't hear them (unless you have a bat detector, of course)!! :happy-clapping:

[Ashley Cawley]

Yay! It's back. Well done all concerned. :)

Thanks again for your support folks, I've just returned from 2 days in the woods - much needed recovery time :p


Is it just me or is it faster to now :)Oh yes! I forgot to mention the positive part :) the site is on a faster server now so the whole of the site & forum should load ever so slightly quicker.
T^

4777

[Ben Casey]

Cooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllll :D T^

[Ashley Cawley]

Well done for getting the website back so quickly. I thought for one horrid minute that NB had subject to a denial of service attackDon't worry - it wasn't. I like this place to be open about what goes on so if it was under attack I would have mentioned it publicly... I didn't give a detailed update because each day I lulled into thinking it was going to be fixed faster than it actually was and frankly the intricacies of virtual-machine hard-drives becoming corrupt, restoring MySQL databases and data-center technicans walking out on us at 3 in the morning are mind-numbingly boring :(

It's back though, that's the main thing, enjoy. :o

[Kernowek Scouser]

There is only so much midget porn and man can take :eek:
Glad the site is back up and running :happy-clapping: Good work and well done to all who made it happen T^

[rosseveritt]

There is only so much midget porn and man can take :eek:
Glad the site is back up and running :happy-clapping: Good work and well done to all who made it happen T^

Is that very small porn or small people involved in porn? :P

[Kernowek Scouser]

Both, occasionally including animals :rolleye:

[rosseveritt]

Lol! You pay good money in clubs for that! :P

[Kernowek Scouser]

...or get it for free, if you make the mistake of stumbling into Gaslights bar after a night on the sauce in Redruth!

[rosseveritt]

...or get it for free, if you make the mistake of stumbling into Gaslights bar after a night on the sauce in Redruth!

*makes notes NOT to visit Gaslights* Lol! :)

[Martin]

*makes note to make a beeline for Gaslights in Redruth* ;)

Martin

[rosseveritt]

LOL @ Martin. Only you eh Martin. :p

[Silverback]

Well Done for getting things back up and running. I think the data may have gone as feared as I lost some 'points' from my profile on the instructors thread as well as my posts