Midnight forum outages

[NCC]

Tonight's didn't last long. Some nights they last an hour or so. But, very frequently, around midnight Central time it is ...

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

Seems very odd to me that midnight would be such a peak of activity to create that message. A little transparency please.

 

[spaky]

I believe it's when the servers update.

 

[quasimod]

It's been discussed around here somewhere... It's some kind of automatic maintenance thing. They are trying to find the best time to do it, so it disrupts the fewest people. That's kind of hard, since we have members in a lot of different time zones.

 

[NCC]

My thought, quasimod, is that since the majority of ECF members are in the USA, that time would be a little later in the day ... say 1 AM Pacific, 4 AM Eastern.

 

[Mr.Self_Destruct]

Yes that sounds about right. usually 1 am eastern time.

 

[doots]

probably database updating since its around midnight. I have noticed that also.

 

[Mr.Self_Destruct]

My thought, quasimod, is that since the majority of ECF members are in the USA, that time would be a little later in the day ... say 1 AM Pacific, 4 AM Eastern.

I think they do what's convenient for the UK.

 

[ejoker]

actually, we're looking at rescheduling it to a few hours later.

 

[notsoogood]

My thought, quasimod, is that since the majority of ECF members are in the USA, that time would be a little later in the day ... say 1 AM Pacific, 4 AM Eastern.

actually, we're looking at rescheduling it to a few hours later.

I had heard from a reliable source that it was being discussed. And my thought was exactly what NCC mentioned. I told the person I mentioned it to to take pity on us poor west coasters!

 

[quasimod]

The majority of my more unfortunate posts seem to occur right around "closing time", so 2 a.m. Central is good for me.

 

[ejoker]

actually quas, we're going to set up monitoring for whenever you're on, and perform maintenance and updates around your schedule

 

[quasimod]

Thanks, ejoker! I'll try to find a breathalyzer with a USB cable, so you guys will know when to cut me off.

 

[notsoogood]

Ohhh......stay off when I'm on Quasimod!!!

And didn't you get an invite to the snail thread? You never showed up???

Sorry NCC!! again!!!

 

[quasimod]

Sorry, I forgot! I'll stop in tomorrow, I'm off to bed now. Goodnight!

 

[spaky]

Snails do it at midnight

 

[notsoogood]

Sorry, I forgot! I'll stop in tomorrow, I'm off to bed now. Goodnight!

Night Quasimod!

Snails do it at midnight

Hey! How did you know????

 

[ejoker]

outage . starts . NOW

 

[notsoogood]

outage . starts . NOW

NOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!! It's too soon!!!!!!!

 

[rolygate]

There are about 3 maintenance tasks that were run daily. We rescheduled a couple but that still leaves one running at 1 am EC - the main backup.

Since most members are in EC zone we'll move that to their 'dead' time, say 5am EC. But like Quas said, we are global so somebody somewhere has to pay. When it's good for US EC, it's bad for Pacific or Europe or wherever.

Depends who sends me the best 5 volt mod, maybe I'll fix it so they are in the clear. There have got to be some perks to this job

 

[BradSmith]

Thanks, ejoker! I'll try to find a breathalyzer with a USB cable, so you guys will know when to cut me off.

Wow, I need one of those as well, if you find one let me know.

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