QOL has crashed

Something about too many rainbow avatars...

Anyway, there's a temporary chatroom for me to prove that I can be smarmy, sarcastic, cutting and vaguely humourous on a spontaneous basis.

<evil laugh>

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Penetration_Guru wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Something about too many rainbow avatars...[/QUOTE]

Maybe it was the 100 posts per day that certain people feel compelled to make...

I'd laugh if all the posts counts were lost on there.

What's the link to the chatroom?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]StayingPower2010 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]What's the link to the chatroom?[/QUOTE]

http://test.highlandfox.com/qol/chat/index.php

there you go Karl :)

Perhaps it was the elegant design combined with bleeding-edge functionality that consumed more than the site's share of available bandwidth.

I'm sad to report that the gang on the QOL chat tonight is not quite the Algonquin Round Table. Clearly, P_G has left the building, dammit.

I was the only one left at 00:15 GMT.

Had I known you were on your way....



I'd still have fucked off to bed.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Penetration_Guru wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Something about too many rainbow avatars...

Anyway, there's a temporary chatroom for me to prove that I can be smarmy, sarcastic, cutting and vaguely humourous on a spontaneous basis.

<evil laugh>[/QUOTE]
What...my avvy is my sig now:P.And you were ok in the chatroom.I would love too see you have a go at Sylv or some one like that.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Erin wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Penetration_Guru wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Something about too many rainbow avatars...[/QUOTE]

Maybe it was the 100 posts per day that certain people feel compelled to make...

I'd laugh if all the posts counts were lost on there.[/QUOTE]
So :)It would not have to do with the people talking to Freddies ghost would it...funny you have not mentioned that as a reason.For fuck sake go pick on them instead of me.

To be fair, they get picked on A LOT...you just don't notice it when it's not aimed at you

Well that makes me feel better lol.

Hey, no fighting in here. LOL! :P

Ok...:-)

Technically it hasn't "crashed", it just didn't come back up after they moved it from one location to another. I don't know the specific issues, but they had database problems and they are trying to acquire backups from EMI as far as I know who aren't exactly the fastest moving company in the world as we all know.

Ian,

just out of curiosity,
and if you can disclose such info,
and I know nothing of how phpBB works:

what kind of OS/DB do they use?

TIA

The backend of a phpbb forum is usually a relatively straight forward MySQL database although phpbb can be installed on several different types of database usually MySQL is the most common and popular choice for it, the OS is irrelevant as MySQL servers can be efficiently run on Windows or Linux although generally run better on Linux. The front end of the forums is php (as the name suggests) with a bit of Javascript for good measure. The QOL forums have been modified a fair bit by myself but I have backups of all of that side of things, regretfully the only thing I don't personally have a backup of is the main database. I only have a test database I use for development work on the site before putting stuff live.