Downtime

[Ian]

Sorry for the few mins downtime just now, I've been investigating one of the server problems and I found an error - although it looks like I'll have to bring the site offline for about 10 mins to fix it. I'll do this early in the morning so it shouldn't cause any probs for anyone

 

[Anon_F]

Whats the problem?

 

[Ian]

A little part of the database is corrupt, but to run the repair tool it knocks the entire DB offline for a few mins. Should be easy to fix this though

 

[WinkingPig]

Come on Ian, time to make the move, your database really shouldn't be corrupting

Dare I say it... Linux

 

[muckshifter]

Come on Ian, time to make the move, your database really shouldn't be corrupting

Dare I say it... Linux

Hey! that's my line ...


Love the Penguin avatar ...

 

[Ian]

I'd love to make the jump to Linux if I had the time and patience, I must admit IIS is quite reliable for the most part, as is MySQL - however with the redundancy checking in place that restarts the server on over 2 mins of downtime there has been some very minor corruption in the database (nothing that results in data loss though).

I'm sure I'll end up on Linux one day though