mobilenvidia Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 You may have noticed that the forums were down over the last 36 hours or so. :P This was caused by our Hosts upgrading to PHP 4.3.10 (tech talk) this had a disasterous effect with our database. Not our hosts fault they thought they were being good by updating so quickly. After numerous attempts to restore an older backup and other tricks, Teraphy found the bug was with the PHP prog and the Linux server. Our hosts have gone back to v4.3.9 and all is well again. :) A big thanks to those involved in helping to get this sorted. :) And apologies for any inconveniance caused. I did make a new page for the website, I'll update when I get a chance. Seeing I couldn't answer any questions on the forums except a tonne of PM's, I had spare time on my hands. Enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 Actually, I think they should have notified you in advance of the PHP upgrade. Otherwise, the host would be getting calls every 10 seconds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teraphy Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 I agree. Some warning like an info page on when updates will occur would even be helpful. Then there is time to alert of any potential problems. This wasn't bad. The error appears due to using an old Zend Optimizer. From what people on the Invision Boards are saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Back again? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Yay :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Hopefully it'll be back to stay :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 stay forum, stay :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 I guess they felt the dontknow force :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Yeah, we are back. :) I hope were back for good this time, 6 hours was hardly enough time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 So far so good... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 So far so good... :) It seems to be working fine right now still..... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Make sure someone replies back here every 6 hours or the forum will go down again. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Make sure someone replies back here every 6 hours or the forum will go down again. :) Roger, will do. :) *sets watch to go off every 6 hours* Just kidding.......... :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 The server hosts are updating Zend Optimizer to v2.5.7. This will then allow them to update PHP to 4.3.10. Zend had to be upgraded to v2.5.7 as the older version had big issues with PHP 4.3.10 This problem wasn't known at the time and was only discovered after the new version of PHP was released. The new version of PHP has a whole heap of bug fixes including some security. So the Web hosts are quite keen to upgrade (for good reasons). Hopefully this will all go smoothly. Hope this explains what happened over the last few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Sorry Pieter and Teraphy, haven't ran forum software under Unix yet, only BBS software and mailing lists but what is Zend Optimizer actually used for? Is it actually needed for things like IPB and PHPBB or is it optional? It's my turn in this 6 hour cycle to post.. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 From what i *read* 3 days ago, it optimizes the php database and compresses it to a smaller size. There is a webpage zend.com ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Yeah, Pieter posted about it in our *other* forum... Anyways, PhpBB seems to have a virus which was the cause of the upgrades but notification should still be given first as a courtesy... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4117711.stm http://news.com.com/Googles+search+for+sec...tml?tag=cd.lede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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