RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 2 hours ago, AY Mod said: OK; yesterday's issue is believed to have been identified so we are going to go for it again on Wednesday morning. Therefore the site will be offline from 08.30 again. That is 330A here, I have absolutely NO plans to be up and online at that time! Good luck and I hope that all goes well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 03.30? A good time for comet-watching here currently. Also a fairly normal time to be woken by the student neighbours coming home from somewhere - but not currently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, AY Mod said: OK; yesterday's issue is believed to have been identified so we are going to go for it again on Wednesday morning. Therefore the site will be offline from 08.30 again. An engineer’s possession in the morning rush hour won’t be popular! Jokes aside, best of luck with the maintenance and hopefully second time lucky. Edited July 21, 2020 by SVRlad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyneux Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 I'm slightly shocked that your provider can't replicate the database in the background without a large outage. Most cloud database providers (e.g. Amazon RDS) offer read replicas which can be promoted and made into your primary database if you need. Anyway, good luck tomorrow! Guy 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 2 hours ago, AY Mod said: Investigations centred around a combination of a hole and it overflowing leaving a puddle of DJM to be mopped up. Ick. 54 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: Coreless I hope I should imagine the puddle buzzed a bit as it spread its sticky self all over the place... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted July 21, 2020 Author Moderators Share Posted July 21, 2020 9 minutes ago, lyneux said: I'm slightly shocked that your provider can't replicate the database in the background without a large outage. You can't take an accurate copy whilst allowing the site to be open for posting and other actions; ever tried counting a field of moving sheep? 6 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 Fingers crossed that all goes well! Baz 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2020 3 hours ago, AY Mod said: You can't take an accurate copy whilst allowing the site to be open for posting and other actions; ever tried counting a field of moving sheep? Easy. Count the legs and divide by four. 1 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2020 As ever, always estimate using the Scotty method. Always multiply your estimates by 4 and then when you do it in half the time, you're a miracle worker.... Seriously though, hope it works second time around tomorrow. Good luck. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Good luck Andy. I hope it goes OK 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Good luck Andy. Did we wear out the server with all the extra traffic during lockdown? More seriously, how much did traffic increase over the lockdown period and has it yet reverted back to the same sort of level as this time last year? Best wishes Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted July 22, 2020 Author Moderators Popular Post Share Posted July 22, 2020 Thanks to Michael for a successful transfer today; all seems to be functioning as it should. I'll monitor performance now and cross fingers that everything works as it should. 8 3 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Well, that was a long withdrawal. Almost had to go to Modeller's Anonymous! Hopefully all runs well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Glad to hear it all went well..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted July 22, 2020 Author Moderators Share Posted July 22, 2020 There are evidently some speed/loading issues once users have come back onto the site. We are working on it. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted July 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2020 (edited) Looks just the same - pah ! What are people going to moan about now ? Edited July 22, 2020 by Stubby47 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted July 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2020 9 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Look just the same - pah ! Have you noticed the new reaction? 9 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: What are people going to moan about now ? No problem on that front: People will moan about all the same stuff as before! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 (edited) Seems pretty smooth at present. No delays when posting content, I'll just try a picture too. Copied over, and posted without any hesitations. (Just put the bit-bucket under the left-hand corner if you would be so kind...) Edited July 22, 2020 by Hroth ruddy spelin as ushual... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted July 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22, 2020 (edited) I can't post a reply in one thread I'm following The thread is "Freiwald Traincontroller" I "Submit Reply" and nothing happens. Even editing this post has taken several attempts as it wasn't right to start with. EDIT Managed to reply in "Traicontroller" thread at about the 6th attempt. Edited July 22, 2020 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nile Posted July 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, Harlequin said: Have you noticed the new reaction? That appeared yesterday, see here: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, AY Mod said: There are evidently some speed/loading issues once users have come back onto the site. We are working on it. Just like real railways - everything works fine without the passengers! 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted July 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2020 Glad it all went right this time round. Thank you for all the hard work keeping this (free) resource going. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted July 22, 2020 Author Moderators Popular Post Share Posted July 22, 2020 8 hours ago, burgundy said: More seriously, how much did traffic increase over the lockdown period and has it yet reverted back to the same sort of level as this time last year? Good question Eric; I've removed some of the numbers for commercial reasons but attached a chart showing the year-on-year differences. Over the winter the numbers had been pretty similar and as soon as the 23rd March came there was an increase in traffic leading to April being 46% higher than last year and May 35% higher and it's only now that the numbers are coming back down to normal. If the guvment wanted graphs showing whether people were staying at home they could have asked me. 13 2 10 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 .....and some of them were supposed to be working..... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mcowgill Posted July 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2020 On 21/07/2020 at 15:24, AY Mod said: You can't take an accurate copy whilst allowing the site to be open for posting and other actions; ever tried counting a field of moving sheep? Depends on your database and storage system technology. We moved our business system's 4Tb database from New England to Texas with an outage of around 10 minutes last year, but to get that capability we pay eye watering sums for software and support. It's primarily a matter of counting all the sheep in two duplicate databases for a few days right up to the move. Martin 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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