What the?!

Hey all.

I am loathe to actually start a thread just to ask this question, but just in case there's something other than a coincidence going on and there's another night-owl around...

I continuously have AE and SAB tabs open (in addition to ACF of course) to keep an eye on the trade and cultivation threads. I also have a few other science blogs open, and a plethora of other work-related sites.

Some time in the last half hour or so both AE and SAB went down, with messages about an 'error in the database' (IPS driver error, SAB) and 'could not connect to the database' for AE. I'm not normally inclined to paranoia but everything else I refresh as usual is fine.

Is there something nasty happening that I/we may need to keep an eye out for, and is there any chance of ACF falling over too? are these two sites simply hosted by the same source, which may have innocently burped?

Of course, it might all be sweet in a few hours or so, but if I need to kick Norton in the guts or something I'd like to know sooner rather than later. I think that I might anyway, even though it'll put any serious work on the shelf for the rest of the night...

Apologies in advance if I am taking up unnecessary or irrelevant bandwidth.

Had a quick look at the sites you spoke about:

I think that you will find they are hosted on a common ISP hosting company within australia that has partially fallen over.

Depending on the way they "present" their site, a mySQL database problem will cause different types of problems to be displayed when you go to each site.

I don't think there is anything "sinister" happening. (and yes you should ALWAYS have anti-virus software running, and a whole bunch of other things too)

Thanks for explaining that calycium.

In answer to ACF going down, not sure, but I doubt it, it has never happended before. Though saying that it will now probably happen within 7 seconds on me posting this, knowing my luck

The company who host ACF seem to be pretty on the ball when it comes to keeping the forums up and running.

I have had this happen to me at SAB a few times, sometimes it's just a simple matter of the admin update the system. Never happened to me at AE before though.

Like cal said though, it is likely that it is with the ISP host.

Yeh SnS is down too as to be expected due to it being an offshoot of SAB. Has happened a few times in the past as Trig said but has never really been down this long that i can recall. My recall aint much to go on though hehe.

Hmm that's odd. SAB and AE are still down. Never usually takes this long.

Maybe something did happen...maybe they have been shut down. Hope not.

Sns still down!!! Love to know WTFs going on.

Was meant to be back online this arvo at the earliest so still mite be a bit of a wait yet. Ill see if i can find out anything more tonite

Be nice to be told by the admin as I am a mod on one of those forums

Apparently T was away when it all went down and he had no access to the email address for the server support [reboot had failed]. He is on it now but has no idea how bad/good the situation is as yet, hopefully all is good.

Thanks PD, its good to know whats is going on....

Dum-de-dum (cue elevator music!)

At least it's only a technical hitch, by the sounds of it. Still, I'm starting to miss my daily perusals of three different trade and propagation threads!

Speaking of trade, I indulged in retail therapy today and finally bought an O. trollii... I had to capitulate - it was so beautifully hairy.

I've turned to religion.

Hmmm. Seems that FUBAR is the order of the day.

This afternoon the message changed to the Firefox window that pops up when the wrong url is typed in, and now I am getting:

Forbidden


You don't have permission to access /forum/
on this server.Additionally, a 403 Forbidden
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Looks as though the ISP is majorly broken.

I am peeved.

Surely no-one pulled the plug...?

My work productivity is up 17.5%




is taking a while to get back on its feet -

Its my bet it will be up and running tomorrow morning - Thursday 11am.

Taking bets now? I'll go for Thursday in the late PMs... maybe 6pm.

My work productivity is also up by a similar figure... I'll go 19%.

There's a small hollow space inside me.

Come on people. Nothing wrong with this forum. It is what you make it afterall...

What's that sound?

ACF is fantastic trig.

We're just greedy.

To take the edge from my underload of cactus I cracked the bottle of Talisker that my 6 month old daughter bought for my birthday (what a clever girl!). I'm half an hour early, but I reckon that if I've not finished the tumbler before midnight then I can be forgiven, and it gives me a reason to click cactus links I don't usually follow.

I hope all is well at SAB. I have an order of spikies in the pipeline, and I wouldn't want them snaffled if someone has decided that they are agrieved with T.

I'm still banking on the "we will resume normal transmission as soon as possible" option, though.

(In the background...)

Could some one plz tell me what SAB and AE stand for its driving me crazier

parrotsheaven wrote:

Could some one plz tell me what SAB and AE stand for its driving me crazier

Hi Betty,

SAB and AE stand for

Shaman Australis Botanicals and Australian ethnobotany both websites have forums. As you might have gathered they are both concerned with plant use in human cultures. Until this place started up it was the only place Aussie cactophiles could rest their weary bones at the end of a hard day.

We make them sounds like something really amazing - but to be honest they are just like any other online forum.

Cheers
Jim

hmmm not my thing, i think i'll stick with this one.