03-06-2000 20:24									#1
	Yesterday's problems Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

On Thursday night the ISP on which Gamestats relies was hit by a lightning storm. Some machines were trashed, but all data is safe. Our apologies to everyone for the loss of service, and our thanks to the GS people for coming up again so quickly(given the size of the problem)

	03-06-2000 22:43									#2
	Got spare money?

Thanks for keeping us informed!

	04-06-2000 01:55									#3
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Isn't it time to get rid of that bothersome association with that crap gaming site, GameStats? Buy your own hardware, and you can keep all of the advertising revenues for yourself!

	04-06-2000 03:38									#4
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

dont judge a painting if you only see one small part in the upper left corner

	04-06-2000 05:04									#5
	Get a bigger avatar today!

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by MarkG on 06-03-2000 06:38 PM</font>
dont judge a painting if you only see one small part in the upper left corner
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Hehehe, this sounds like an old Greek proverb

	05-06-2000 03:05									#6
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Boy, talking about storms, on Friday it was pissing down here, and there was this HUGE wave of thunder. Louder than the sound waves earthquakes make, and every window in the house shook...

	05-06-2000 09:23									#7
	Suffering from ads?

Don't let em fool you people. The forums were hacked by freedom fighters (not me of course). But they can't let the truth be know.

This isn't Apolyton it's the X-Files.

Don't look at me like that Ming, i'm just the messenger.
*breaks into a run*

	05-06-2000 15:39									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

btw, the crap server of the crap site had an crap uptime of six crap months before that...

	06-06-2000 09:57									#9
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Anyone that lets a server stay up for six months without rebooting it every now and then is an idiot. (not saying that was the cause, just an editorial comment )

RAH

	05-06-2000 22:34									#10
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

you know, unix is not windows rah...

	05-06-2000 22:58									#11
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

I don't care, I've run 356/24/7 operations for over 15 years, and I would never leave any machine hot that long. It's just asking for trouble. (and one of our machines was a HP unix 9000 mini) Unix is better but not perfect.
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by rah (edited June 05, 2000).]</font>

	06-06-2000 00:46									#12
	Got spare money?

I'm not a systems administration expert, but I've never heard a unix sysadmin saying that rebooting a unix system every now and then is a good thing...

	06-06-2000 16:20									#13
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

That's the difference between a system admin and an operations director, the level of paranoia. We usually took the opportunity to run at least a minimal set of diagnostics. When downtime costs your company 25k to 100k per hour, you take no chances. We did this even though we had redundant processors and hot swap disk arrays. There is no such thing as overkill when dealing with issues like this.

RAH

	06-06-2000 20:03									#14
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

yep, definently a windows admin

	07-06-2000 01:46									#15
	Tired of ads?

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font>356/24/7
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What do you do with the 9/24/7 that are left over?

	07-06-2000 02:08									#16
	Got spare money?

LOL, didn't notice that. PARTY, of course. If it was IBM equipment i could say annual hardware upgrade.

The ferrets made me do it.
RAH