Preserved Topic: annual down-day?

did it just happen? or was i the only one who saw a dreamhost-page saying the asylum is unavailable.

this seems to be happening twice a year or so....

Yea I saw that dreamhost-page saying the asylum is unavailable to, but hey it's up and running now .

I was really pissed off when I saw BSOD (blue screen of death) for the second time today. If some of you didn't notice, Asylum was also down this morning (from 10 AM to 12 AM central european timezone)... Grrrrr!






[This message has been edited by mr.maX (edited 10-21-2001).]

Yeah max, I was connected when it was first down. Thought arr well, I'll come back later. When I came back it was still down! I thought it was down all day but obviously not. Heh.

The Asylum has been down from 12.00 GMT +01.00 untill an hour ago or something, I think. It really sucked, but its all ok now, cause its back now. but what happend Doc!?

I was half-expecting to see the new Lobby once it got turned back on.. but alas no..

Hey, I went away for the weekend, visiting with friends outside of Stockholm. So! What is it with this place, my server somehow remotely detects my absence and goes all sulky on me? Sheesh. ;-) On the plus side, I got to play a couple of games óf chess against a good opponenent, (lost the first, won the second), and played a game of Risk! (Which I won, I'm truly an evil bastard at risk, heh.) Hmm, I'm almost glad I missed the downtime, since it got fixed, phew!

Your pal, -doc-

Yeah gotta get rid of those new advanced servers.
THEY KNOW WHEN YOU LEAVE

It's an absolute nightmare when I see this! I can't tell you how much I've come to love this place because when I saw this late last night, I just didn't know what to do. So I screen capped it in anticipation of sharing my horror and despair with you all.

Doc wanna play chess?

yeah its sucked, a sunday night/monday morning without the 'sylum, argh! *shiver*

oohh chess, good fun but i suck

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The spirits of the net were very angry!!! No asylum? Felt like somebody cut my hands off! Know what you mean, bugs. Just happy it's back, up and running. Kinda gives one the chills, especially if one thinks about it. What if the asylum were to go away forever? Maybe it is a warning, that we should treasure this unique place a bit more...saw a couple other threads...how sad. Having a bit of fun is one thing, and as far as I know, was always allowed here. But viscous, personal attacks? *sigh*

Yeah, right now the Asylum takes about 100MB of storage space, and uses about 200MB of bandwidth/transfers a day. (5-6 gigs/month) A mirror would rock, but a hot-swappable version with all the file calls, that could be tough. I think maybe once we get transferred over to a true Database version this might be easier to handle, now, with the flat files, we'd have to be constantly transferring all of the files to the mirror as they were written to the server, painful!

What might be nice would be a secondary Asylum, someplace we could all go and bitch about how the primary Asylum was down. This one wouldn't get very heavy traffic probably, and we wouldn't need to worry about mirroring quite so often.

Your pal, -doc-

Great idea, Doc! A 'secondary' asylum. We could call it 'Asylum Jr.' Better to bitch there, than here.

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Damn Ini, that's a good idea. You know, we've been taking sooo much from Doc, it's time to give something back! And it would be nice to give us 'newbies' a chance to contribute. I would love to help. Count me in.

Asylum... Bsylum..? Just thinking out loud.

Well, I don't feel so bad now! Except I'm prolly the only one in so. Oregon checked into the asylum and my ISP had that image in their cache for three days!