Arun 795 Report post Posted May 6, 2005 Yes, the server had to be restarted on Wednesday evening, after we fixed an issue with Apache. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted May 6, 2005 Seems that Arun is doing a lot of work to run the forum smoothly! LAGE RAHO!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robbyji 2 Report post Posted May 20, 2005 yesterday i tried many time to open this site but i think there was some problem in site , are other people were facing the same problem ? robby Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dilbert 0 Report post Posted May 20, 2005 Hmnn..see the threead on Virus infection Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted May 20, 2005 I also faced the same problem. But in following post Arun has given the answer: http://www.rimweb.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3780&hl= Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mohan_27x 0 Report post Posted May 20, 2005 I have checked for many times yesterday but of no use. foirst thing came to my mind was, wether Reliance is the cause for "forum down" thanks it was not long live RIMWEB! And thanks to the entire Rimweb team Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashokjp 15 Report post Posted July 22, 2005 Dear Members, On behalf of whole Rimweb.com team, really sorry about yesterday night. Due to some problem with DB the site was not accessible. Now its working fine.. Enjoy & Keep Posting !!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted July 23, 2005 Yes, the forum was not working for most of the time yesterday as we had to shut down MySQL service since we had to do an emergency server transfer. I'll paste below a part of the email sent to all our clients regarding the downtime, which should make it clear for you. The problems started when the 'CPU load' in the server increased steadily yesterday and our Technicians had to reboot the server in order to bring it down. But the load increase kept on going and were trying to isolate the exact problem. The technicians performed a memory test on the RAM and it came back clean, so this indicated that the problem was elsewhere. Technicians ran some more tests and did some more investigating. It seemed that there was a partition issue that was causing /home to be mounted as read-only. This meant that you were not able to make changes to your account. This required the technicians to rebuilt the /home partition but still would not guarentee on whether it would fix the problem. So the best course of action suggested by our technicians was to move all of the accounts to a newer, more powerful server, so that further delay in investigating the issue would be avoided. The new server was immediately commissioned by the Data Center & the technicians loaded the Operating System and all other necessary applications by 8 AM CDT, at which time we began moving all accounts to the new server. We have talked with technicians and system administrators and believe this is the best course of action, since we are not able to accurately determine what caused the file system problem, even if the file system problem was the root cause of the problems. Moving to a new server was the safest solution to insure that this problem does not repeat itself. Since the backup/restore process consumes much time, this caused most of the inevitable delay for us. We had shutdown a lot of services on the server during the backup/restore process and hence many services like SMTP, POP3, cPanel, MySQL, etc. were not available even though Apache was running so that your website would remain online. As the backup/restoration process is very CPU intensive, shutting off those services helped us in speeding up the backup process and allowed us to back up more accounts in a shorter amount of time. We apologize for taking these services down, but we wanted to devote as much processing power as we can create the backups smoothly. Also we believe in shutting down these services, it may allow the server to remain online longer. As of now, the account restoration process is fully complete (at around 0100 GMT, Saturday, 23 July 2005). We have checked all the accounts and they are now resolving to the new server. All accounts were individually checked and have been now verified to be working fine and normally in the new server. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted July 23, 2005 Thank GOD! Now its working... I was very worried about it. Good job buddy! LAGE RAHO Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
@ksh@T 20 Report post Posted July 23, 2005 oh god..............that swa smy furious night without rimweb.... and was just thinkin kyaa ho gaya yaar ................ par ab main theek hoioon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deepu 0 Report post Posted July 25, 2005 Even the best of data centres which promise 99.99 percent uptime have these problems sometimes. So its better to bear with these problems!! Good that its solved in double quick time!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
