Avicus Archive

Addressing the downtime! by keenanjt September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

Avicus was down intermittently over the past 12 hours due to a database failure. After attempting to restore it automatically, which failed after a few hours, I needed to instead restore it from a previous version. Luckily we backup at regular intervals throughout the day so most is saved. In fact the only thing that was changed is the "deaths" database which keeps track of who killed who. After a long night of a series of unfortunate events (another db failure... hard drive dismounted) we are finally back up.

Apologies for the lack of communication in the meantime, and of course the extended period of downtime. We try our best to keep Avicus up for as long as possible, but events like these are impossible to predict, troublesome to prevent and, often, difficult to recover from.

We have some updates in store for Avicus soon, and I'll be more closely monitoring the status of the database going forward.

Robin_DD_J September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

You have been forgiven

PleaseUnbanPSV September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

Good work Kylo

Javipepe September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

<3

Subscriptor September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

its ok baby


<3

Ingigo September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

Nice.

DonaldMyTrump September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

Good work Kylo
da fuck is this? First zacd57 now this. ;-;

GrapeSmoothie September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

<3 Much love

faht September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

<3 Thanks


xIDDoS September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

I guess it got ddos'ed lmao

Robin_DD_J September 4, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC

I guess it got ddos'ed lmao
lmfaoooooo

Eteh September 4, 2015 at 4:09 PM UTC

It's okay, hopefully it doesn't happen again. ^-^

PokerFace September 4, 2015 at 6:09 PM UTC

Your apology has been accepted.

DaFrozenBlaze September 4, 2015 at 6:09 PM UTC

Yay

Myv September 4, 2015 at 6:09 PM UTC

<3

Rainstruck September 4, 2015 at 6:09 PM UTC

It works now, so thanks for the update!

Petlas September 4, 2015 at 9:09 PM UTC

<3

SnowSX3 September 4, 2015 at 10:09 PM UTC

I guess it got ddos'ed lmao
We weren't DDOS'd.
The database table crashed so everything stopped working.

FrozenThorn September 4, 2015 at 10:09 PM UTC

Thanks for letting us know!

34th September 5, 2015 at 12:09 AM UTC

At least it is back up!