Significant downtime today?
Oct 25, 2007, 11:47 am
#5
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,255
It wasn't just your imagination.
Oddly enough, the culprit was actually the WebFlyer server (you might have noticed that WebFlyer and InsideFlyer are still down
). Seems we have experienced a major hardware failure on that server and because the FlyerTalk servers were still making calls to the WebFlyer server it was causing FT to time out and crash.
To get FT back up and running, the tech team has delinked the two servers. As a result, some features, like the Airport Code Lookup, aren't working at the moment, but at least the site (FT) is up and running.
Oddly enough, the culprit was actually the WebFlyer server (you might have noticed that WebFlyer and InsideFlyer are still down
). Seems we have experienced a major hardware failure on that server and because the FlyerTalk servers were still making calls to the WebFlyer server it was causing FT to time out and crash.To get FT back up and running, the tech team has delinked the two servers. As a result, some features, like the Airport Code Lookup, aren't working at the moment, but at least the site (FT) is up and running.
Oct 26, 2007, 5:14 am
#8
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Oct 26, 2007, 1:50 pm
#10
Join Date: Nov 2003
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I was starting to (irrationally) think the worst (that the plug had been permanently pulled on FT), as every time (over the past day or so) I tried to reach the FT forums (or the FT main page or WF), there was nothing.