PAFOA Back Online After First Major Downtime

[snakeman21]

I was SO glad when I clicked the PAFOA box on my speed dial and the site was back up... I was jonesing real bad all weekend. I really need something to fall back on... anybody know where I can get some crack if this happens again?

[scott_hess556]

That sucked. I was like NOOOO!!!!! my wife goes "whats wrong?" I yell PAFOA is down!!! she shakes her head and walked away. lol

[gunshop25]

I know how you feel. As stupid as it sounds, this was quite possibly one of the worst 72 hours of my life.

With what happened there was quite literally nothing that could be done without physical access to the machines. Until this morning I didn't even know if perhaps the entire thing got hit by a meteor or something. I felt completely and utterly helpless.

The feeling when my friend let me know it was just a bad HD and we needed to just reconfigure a few things was overwhelmingly good.

Obviously I have some IT work to do.

Dan- Keep up the good work - this is a GREAT WEBSITE..........

[ironhorse]

it was allmost like having withdrawal systems from not getting my daily fix from the pafoa..

[rwilson452]

Speaking of costs, the check is in the mail

[rwilson452]

Speaking of costs, the check is in the mail.

[joe15003]

Personally I was having pafoa withdraw

[ViperGTS19801]

May I make a suggestion?

HP Proliant GL380 server, in a RAID 1 config, with one hot spare drive. Install ESXi on it and P-to-V the existing server, then move the database to a seperate partition. Keep a spare image of the virtual server on hand in case something blows up, and four days of downtime turns into five minutes or less.

Now we just need to run a $10,000 fundraiser to generate the startup money...

[dc dalton]

May I make a suggestion?

HP Proliant GL380 server, in a RAID 1 config, with one hot spare drive. Install ESXi on it and P-to-V the existing server, then move the database to a seperate partition. Keep a spare image of the virtual server on hand in case something blows up, and four days of downtime turns into five minutes or less.

Nix the database on the same drive, let alone server .... dedicated database server

[edritchey]

Well ok then, I just tossed a few bucks your way.
:-)

I have a few ideas that I'm researching to fix this problem that go in a lot of different directions. Rest assured everyone will be kept in the loop.

Thanks to my dad I learned to save money and while PAFOA ain't rich, we have built up a little nestegg to help us deal with things like "CRAP WE NEED TO BUY NEW SERVERS ASAP" if they come up. With that said, if people do want to either donate, purchase a forum subscription, or advertise with us, we will gratefully accept. Regardless of what we do, the money will go towards continuing the organization one way or another.

I think it's safe to say that whatever the solution is, it's probably going to cost us money through a combination of up front costs and/or increased monthly fees. While we have some leeway in our budget, more leeway is always good.