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kidredkidred
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Wow, with all the G4/G5 talk and the forums being down for most of the day, I realized, I have no where to go when these boards are down. LOL. They are tied in with MacNN which is my second choice, after that macrumors.com but they don't have many postings thru the day.



Glad you guys are back, now I can speculate on the towers again!!
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    g4dudeg4dude Posts: 1,016member
    finally. though this did force me to write a history paper for my teacher that HASN'T GIVEN AN A IN 27 YEARS!!!
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    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    The question is: What caused the downtime..?
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    apple.otakuapple.otaku Posts: 590member
    And why did the MacNN forums go down at the same time? I thought there was a big deal about AI getting their own server?
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  • Reply 4 of 30
    ferroferro Posts: 453member
    Yes, whenever one goes, the other goes with it...



    I thought I heard about AI getting its own server too...



    And when they go down it doesnt leave you with any real "equal" alternatives...



    E PLURIBUS UNIX

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  • Reply 5 of 30
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    IIRC, they are on different servers, but they're sitting next to each other on the same 'net connection. Their ISP has been getting DoS attacks lately and that was the cause of the recent outages. I suppose that's the reason for today's also.
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  • Reply 6 of 30
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Isn't MacNN and AI still on the same server?
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    graphitemangraphiteman Posts: 428member
    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>Isn't MacNN and AI still on the same server?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Nope.
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  • Reply 8 of 30
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    [quote]Originally posted by graphiteman:

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    Nope.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    yes they are. the websites themselves are on one server and the forums are on a new dual 1Ghz server.



    still shared
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  • Reply 9 of 30
    graphitemangraphiteman Posts: 428member
    [quote]Originally posted by applenut:

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    yes they are. the websites themselves are on one server and the forums are on a new dual 1Ghz server.



    still shared</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I'm surprised. I could've sworn they were on different servers.
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  • Reply 10 of 30
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    They are on the same server, AFAIK, but I'm wondering why MacNN was up yesterday at times while AI was still dead...
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  • Reply 11 of 30
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by graphiteman:

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    I'm surprised. I could've sworn they were on different servers.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    They were until a little bit before AI came back.



    MacAgent, I also find it weird that MacNN was up, although not all day, when AI wasn't.
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  • Reply 12 of 30
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    With all of these outages, it's beginning to feel like the old AI again.
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  • Reply 13 of 30
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Fran441:

    <strong>With all of these outages, it's beginning to feel like the old AI again. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yep. At least it's not going down for months at a time though.
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  • Reply 14 of 30
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    The forums server is a Dual 1000MHz machine, it holds the AI and MacNN forums comfortably. The server was offline for the 1st time in 70+ days because it was moved to a new NOC. As you may recall there was some time when the server was unreachable because of DoS attacks on the old NOC.



    Over the weekend we had problems with the DNS server. Because the DNS server was down all MacNN-related sites were inaccessible.



    Later in the weekend there was a problem with the router that all the servers except the forum server are connected to. This caused all sites to be inaccessible again.



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  • Reply 15 of 30
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    So Nick, we shouldn't have any more problems, right?
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  • Reply 16 of 30
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Good 'ole MacNN, you can always count on them for instability.
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  • Reply 17 of 30
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Jeesus, i'm gone for a week and the place goes to shit.







    Nick speaks the truth, though. We should be up for good, now.
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  • Reply 18 of 30
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Jonathan:

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    Nick speaks the truth, though. We should be up for good, now.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Great.
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  • Reply 19 of 30
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Good to see that EmAn's posting habits haven't changed
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  • Reply 20 of 30
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Thought they'd change, Jon? Never.
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