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Catastrophic Cluster Failure

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by digitalpoint, Jun 3, 2013.

  1. ryan_uk

    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    #161
    What are you crying about? If getting three pathetic likes is too difficult, there is premium membership and other paid market places. This will save you time for a little bit of money (it's a small drop in the ocean if you depend on it for your business).

    As an owner of many forums, you aren't very clued up if you don't understand why such a system is needed. Something is needed to curtail spam and have some level of quality. Read more and you'll actually understand how effective it has been (have a look for Shawn's posts about more traffic, sales, etc).

    I don't think you understand the scale of DP or have ever worked with such large databases and their migration. Credit to Shawn for what he has achieved (regarding recovery). Some people would have just given up and called it a day, especially if they thought the backup was screwed, too.
     
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    ryan_uk, Jun 5, 2013 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #162
    Oh, speaking of backups, I just triple checked that the daily backups are working properly (hah), and they are. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Jun 5, 2013 IP
  3. monosodium

    monosodium Well-Known Member

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    #163
    Worst day of your life so far. Haha!

    Don't sweat it. In 2 weeks nobody will even remember. And good thing you had some sort of backup lying around. You'd be surprised how many people ain't got no backup whatsoever...
     
    monosodium, Jun 5, 2013 IP
  4. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #164
    rofl

    one thing it wasn't caused by was inexperience :)
     
    sarahk, Jun 5, 2013 IP
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  5. Zaishen

    Zaishen Greenhorn

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    #165
    just calm down man, everything will be ok,time will fix it

    life without stress is boring, how would be this life if everything is perfect
     
    Zaishen, Jun 5, 2013 IP
  6. submit_articles

    submit_articles Active Member

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    #166
    How about life without stress will be nirvana? Only dead people got no stress. So get stressed getting LIKED :)
     
    submit_articles, Jun 5, 2013 IP
  7. mrcoffee

    mrcoffee Greenhorn

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    #167
    '' for whatever reason those were not running on the new servers ''

    What do you use to automate backups? I would be going all Dilbert if this happened to me.
     
    mrcoffee, Jun 5, 2013 IP
  8. adbash

    adbash Active Member

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    #168
    Such situations does happen in this case I'm little sorry that some good content was forever lost. However, we must learn from the mistakes. I had a situation in which the database in some of my websites refused to cooperate. It is good to secure things for the future.
     
    adbash, Jun 6, 2013 IP
  9. Mkcoy

    Mkcoy Well-Known Member

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    #169
    Oh man hassles for you bro but you are the man keeping it going. Take more than a cluster bomb to end the household name that DP is. ;)
     
    Mkcoy, Jun 6, 2013 IP
  10. MasterwebX

    MasterwebX Greenhorn

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    @ryan_uk
    I don't think you understand what I say...


    Very good!!!
     
    MasterwebX, Jun 7, 2013 IP
  11. w3bs

    w3bs Well-Known Member

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    #171
    OMG This really suckss.. I know how you feel :( I am glad the damage was not worse.

    I am sure DP will jump right back to normal pretty soon :)

    Thanks for the update.. its good to be posted.
     
    w3bs, Jun 7, 2013 IP
  12. apnavarun

    apnavarun Member

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    #172
    Bad thing happens everywhere and whatever the reason is its major failure for a site like DP. Anyway its good everything is fine now.
    Every failure is a lesson learned
     
    apnavarun, Jun 7, 2013 IP
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    maurisrx Member

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    #173
    We're sorry to hear that. I know it's a hard pain of losing stuff online, because once it's gone and we have no backup, then it's gone forever. A sad thing of online world :(.
     
    maurisrx, Jun 7, 2013 IP
  14. TechGrunth.Com

    TechGrunth.Com Banned

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    #174
    fuck.png
     
    TechGrunth.Com, Jun 8, 2013 IP
  15. evillo

    evillo Active Member

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    #175
    Nice, and now I'm not sure it would be a good decision to ever post on DP again as for example, My long post is gone along with all my effort, trophies and likes. Good job staff. lol. See you never again ;)
     
    evillo, Jun 8, 2013 IP
  16. Spoiltdiva

    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    #176
    There is no way that DP can survive without you......we are doomed!:eek:
     
    Spoiltdiva, Jun 8, 2013 IP
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  17. TechGrunth.Com

    TechGrunth.Com Banned

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    #177
    Yes or No guy emoticon for facebook chat.png You no give me my LIKES back ?
    lol
     
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  18. Smyrl

    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    #178
    We are supposed to like someone that posts f u? Rolls eyes. Where are your manners?
     
    Smyrl, Jun 8, 2013 IP
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    DreamingBig Well-Known Member

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    #179
    Oh wow, I was away sick for a few days and I'm feeling better now and just saw all of this. I'm sorry to hear about what all happened. I am just glad that the site is up and running smoothly again now :)
     
    DreamingBig, Jun 8, 2013 IP
  20. Zirkon Kalti

    Zirkon Kalti Well-Known Member

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    #180
    I like the Old DP Vbulletin version compare to Xenforo. Everything loads slower in the new forum. Now, I notice DP like having very few new threads and the tweets and facebook likes had drop significantly. It is also wrong to ask for 3 likes, cause this cause lesser threads to be created. In the Old DP, there is no 3 likes yet I've not seen any spam before. If there are spam threads or posts, it must be very few spam.
     
    Zirkon Kalti, Jun 9, 2013 IP