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Feb 22, 2002 | 2:05 pm

ScottC

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FT been gone...

Was I the only one FT-less for the afternoon?

Feb 22, 2002 | 2:05 pm

dhacker

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No, I think FT was down. There aren't any new posts since this morning.

Feb 22, 2002 | 2:24 pm

John at Webflyer

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The co-location center where we keep our servers had problems this morning and lost their connection to the internet. During this time the power to the FlyerTalk server was lost and evidentally the UPS for the server failed. I have not received a full report on what exactly happened, but this is my current understanding of this mornings events.

I am expecting a better report from the co-location center soon, but for right now, I am simply happy that FlyerTalk is once again, live.

Thanks,
John

Feb 22, 2002 | 2:28 pm

ScottC

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As always to you and everyone that keeps FT running, a big THANKS!

Feb 22, 2002 | 2:52 pm

doc

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Please also see:

We're back up again! Thanks!

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/006123.html

Feb 24, 2002 | 12:42 am

markbach

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what happened to cause FT to be down all day Saturday?

Feb 24, 2002 | 12:46 am

chemist661

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I am glad FT is back up.

Thank you for getting the servers to work again.

Feb 24, 2002 | 2:04 am

blackjack-21

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Really down for a long time this time. What happened?
Welcome back, though!!!

bj-21.

Feb 24, 2002 | 5:39 am

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Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by blackjack-21:
Really down for a long time this time. What happened?
Welcome back, though!!!

bj-21.</font>

Yeah, I actually felt like I had a life this weekend

Feb 24, 2002 | 7:50 am

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John at Webflyer

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I'm not sure yet what caused Saturday's downtime. When I found the site down last night I manually started the web server software and brought the site back up. So it appears that late Friday night, early Saturday morning the server was power-cycled, and the server software failed to restart. That's all I know right now.

Feb 24, 2002 | 8:23 am

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svpii

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Ah - my favorite fix - reboot!

We'll be glad to be your free monitoring service for down time..

Feb 24, 2002 | 8:48 am

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0524

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It's great to have FlyerTalk back!

Feb 25, 2002 | 5:01 am

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peter42

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Once again my suggestion is to use a free network management tool like big brother and to have a bunch of shell scripts, which automatically restart crashed processes.

Feb 25, 2002 | 8:31 am

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phoenixitc

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Unfortunately most co-lo facilities offer free ping monitoring. There's plenty of good URL monitoring software and services that should be looked into, Siteseer, etc.