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Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: BWilli on May 23, 2003, 11:55:15 am: Beer

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Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: LimeTwister on May 23, 2003, 02:51:55 pm: beer?
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: joshua1001 on May 24, 2003, 12:45:52 am: yeah wats up with the VCMB? is it like undergoing a major facelift or what??

:?
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: badsrx7 on May 24, 2003, 11:22:16 am: makes me sad.
i like goin to the vcmb
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: emmy on May 24, 2003, 11:25:32 am: how long has it been down?
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 11:31:15 am: I was led to believe it's all being moved to a new hosting company. If this is the case, it may take a lil time but should hopefully mean far less errors and something that's a lil more reliable! :)
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: emmy on May 24, 2003, 11:32:15 am: really? whered u hear that? if thats whats happening then i am glad.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 11:32:55 am: There was an announcement onnnnn .. the Eminem board I think .. a couple of days ago.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: emmy on May 24, 2003, 11:34:24 am: ooh, okey... whutever happened to your board, did you figure out why it kept giving me that weird error?
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 11:37:37 am: For the billionth time .. it was Vanessa's board, not mine =P

I think I figured it out. Not really sure. But if you clear your cookies it fixes it. I think it happens when you change your password.

Just remembered .. the announcement was on the Wallflowers boards.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: emmy on May 24, 2003, 11:41:17 am: lol vanessas board, but you wrote the code for it, right??
haha, whats the url to it anyways?
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 11:43:01 am: Yeah I wrote it =)

http://www.vanessavoss.net/forum

I've got a clone of it running for me as well now, which runs on my home pc. All very hush hush otherwise all sorts of people will be hacking into my pc lol =)
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: emmy on May 24, 2003, 11:50:07 am: lol so if you wrote the code, its like your board too, hehe
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 11:52:32 am: Well I put it together along with the site as a gift for someone else. If you built someone a car and gave it to them as a present, you wouldn't expect to be able to drive it whenever you like and keep a spare set of keys .. because it's not yours .. it was a gift!

So I guess it's my coding, but not my bulletin board .. but I know what you mean lol.

This is a phpBB bulletin board but it's not 'theirs' (the people who coded it).. it's the nessaholics forum. There's a grey fudgey line in the middle I guess =)

Edit : Anyway. Must go do things. Laters Elmsly! =)
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: emmy on May 24, 2003, 11:55:41 am: lol emsly... that name scares me. bye.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 01:29:20 pm: Tee hee
Title: are we all getting the same errors
Post by: Moogs21 on May 24, 2003, 02:31:02 pm: the vcmb is acting like its not there, i mean were all getting that..right? i'm just not stupid?
Title: Re: are we all getting the same errors
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 02:35:08 pm: Quote from: "Moogs21"
the vcmb is acting like its not there, i mean were all getting that..right? i'm just not stupid?
Yeah. It probably isn't there. It's most likely being moved from one host to the other. So it'll appear as non existent for a day or two while stuff updates.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: emmy on May 24, 2003, 03:07:34 pm: pugsly... heh, thats what it sounds like.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 03:16:07 pm: lol .. you are Elmsly and that's who you are! =)
Title: does that mean
Post by: Moogs21 on May 24, 2003, 04:24:38 pm: we will have to get new screen names, and all of our stuff will be erased?
Title: Re: does that mean
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 04:42:39 pm: Quote from: "Moogs21"
we will have to get new screen names, and all of our stuff will be erased?

Noooooo! Well not if they know what they're doing lol .. no .. all the files including databases, asp pages etc will be moved from one host to another so nothing will change. It will simply become faster and more reliable .. we hope!
Title: Re: does that mean
Post by: LimeTwister on May 24, 2003, 06:27:17 pm: Quote from: "Zebrakorn"

Noooooo! Well not if they know what they're doing lol

sometimes i wonder if they do know what they are doing.....lol....I mean the site hasn't been changed in months....
Title: Re: does that mean
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 24, 2003, 06:49:31 pm: Quote from: "LimeTwister"
Quote from: "Zebrakorn"

Noooooo! Well not if they know what they're doing lol

sometimes i wonder if they do know what they are doing.....lol....I mean the site hasn't been changed in months....

Well. The coding of the boards leaves a LOT to be desired. I'm amazed at how certain things are done. But not much you can do about it. They obviously have some knowledge of what they're doing considering the system they've put together. I think a lot of issues are down to poor hosting which should soon change hopefully.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 25, 2003, 03:18:45 am: I've just noticed something about the title of this thread... "VCMB Board Screwed Up Again" ... Vanessa Carlton Message Board Board? Tsk tsk =P

Okay so I'm a lil bored
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Si on May 25, 2003, 04:31:08 am: Ha, Matt is funny

Too bad the VCMB is down, I wonder how long it's gonna take...
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 25, 2003, 04:38:48 am: *hugs the Si*

Depends how much they have to sort out. I guess they'll be testing it as well. I wouldn't have thought it would take more than a couple of days though. Doesn't take more than that for a domain name to propogate.. I reckon they should in theory have it up by the week.

Whooooo knows though
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Si on May 25, 2003, 04:43:41 am: *sigh

*HUGSSSS the Matt
;)

Hmm, yeah
but
will everything really be the same, I will still have my (UN-!) read PM's?
lol

Buh bye hun
<3
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 25, 2003, 04:45:51 am: Yup. All they're doing is moving the site and all the data from one host to another. Everything should remain the same. I'd be very surprised if the move caused something to be different.

If you move a car stereo from one car to another it doesn't suddenly change.. the buttons don't all move around =)
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Will on May 25, 2003, 08:07:23 am: Like I posted in another thread, this outage could have been prevented if they knew what they were doing. This is just showing how professional they are. :P

Anyway, what they could have done is have the Fullerene bboard code and the site on the new server before the transition even begins. Then, about a week before the transition, they set the DNS expiry to some horribly low number. Close both boards. Switch the DNS. Mail the backup tape/HD with the DB same day UPS and restore the DB at the new site. Bring the board back up.

Main site downtime: none (if all went well)
Bboard downtime: 6 hours, more or less.

Pffft. Amatures.
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 25, 2003, 08:09:07 am: Yup. Agreed =)
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: BWilli on May 25, 2003, 10:54:10 am: nice to see peeps got good use outta my thread from two days ago :lol:
Title: VCMB Board screwed up again
Post by: Zebrakorn on May 25, 2003, 10:56:20 am: Quote from: "BWilli"
nice to see peeps got good use outta my thread from two days ago :lol:

Can't let these threads go to waste ;o)