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Hurricane Charley

Hurricane Charley caused some downtime for this site. Aparently, the datacenter where my site is hosted is located in Orlando, Florida. There must have been a power outage as the storm passed. My host claimed to have generators and I don’t know if they’re running now or if the area has power, but if you’re reading this and if I’m posting, it’s up. I was worried that the datacenter was trashed or something because my files weren’t properly backed up. I’ll have to do some backup in the event that this happens again, but is worse. Thanks for the understanding.

Forums Back

The Forums are back up, so everyone can post again. I also accidentally messed up the uploader (some sort of php parse error), but it’s working now. So that’s the boring news, nothing to see here. Nothing cool or anything.

The Forums Will be Down

The forums will be down starting now and will return sometime late on Sunday, August 9, 2004 (maybe late Saturday night if you’re lucky).

You will be able to read the forums while they are down, but you will not be able to post new topics, or reply to topics. Anyone new will not be able to register until these forums are back up.

Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. The reason for this downtime is not anyone here, but I have a few things to fix and update. The forums will be exactly the same as they are now and no posts will be lost. I look forward to the time when these forums are up again. Don’t forget about this site during the time they’re down LOL.

Microsoft??

There is one person who keeps looking at my forums as a guest and the IP started with a 65. So I looked it up and its none other than Microsoft… I don’t have the slightest clue of why someone in Washington using a Microsoft IP address would keep looking at this site. I mean, the only people who know about this site are people I told it about. It couls be someone from another forum, because I have my website listed on others. It might also be anyone using MSN internet access, but why would it say Washington? I’m sure anyone around here with MSN internet doesnt have to dial Washington to get on. Who knows.

Finally

This site is running nicely again. The server seems to be stable now. It was caught in an endless loop of excessive memory usage. Once all the memory was used up (due to heavy server loads), apache failed and forced a reboot. Then the site would work again for a short while until all the memory was used and it kept rebooting. So after two days of being caught in that loop (probably do to some hacking fools) it now seems back to normal. And it better stay that way for a long, long time.