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It seems as if Stories of Arda is down today. I don't know why, but it
might be a problem if it can't be fixed soon.

Dreamflower


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Does anyone know how to find out why SoA is down??

:(

A very worried Kaylee

----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Rich
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:37 AM
Subject: [MEFAwards] SoA is down.



It seems as if Stories of Arda is down today. I don't know why, but it
might be a problem if it can't be fixed soon.

Dreamflower

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One of the mods there has explained that the host just upgraded some equipment
and it's hiccuping. They are working on it now.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large

"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR

"Don't go where I can't follow."

On 7/22/2010 1:37 PM, Barbara Rich wrote:

> It seems as if Stories of Arda is down today. I don't know why, but it
> might be a problem if it can't be fixed soon.

Hi Dreamflower and all,

Thanks for letting me know about this. I'm inclined to give them a day,
since we're so far away from the deadline. However I will check
tomorrow, and if it isn't fixed by then I'll look at swapping out URLs.
I'm not a member of the SOA listserv - can you or someone else let us
know if they say they got it fixed?

Marta

SOA's back up! But...it looks like everything posted after the beginning of March is GONE!!! :(

Kaylee

*biting nails worriedly*

----- Original Message -----
From: telperion1
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Barbara Rich
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] SoA is down.



On 7/22/2010 1:37 PM, Barbara Rich wrote:
> It seems as if Stories of Arda is down today. I don't know why, but it
> might be a problem if it can't be fixed soon.

Hi Dreamflower and all,

Thanks for letting me know about this. I'm inclined to give them a day,
since we're so far away from the deadline. However I will check
tomorrow, and if it isn't fixed by then I'll look at swapping out URLs.
I'm not a member of the SOA listserv - can you or someone else let us
know if they say they got it fixed?

Marta




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As of this time it is apparently back down once more. They are probably working
on reconstructing it once more, remembering the time of the great hacking.

Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large

"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR

"Don't go where I can't follow."

There is an explanation over at LOTR_Community_GFIC about why SoA is currently down -- the short version of it is that they are working to restore the missing data and have turned things off so that any new additions don't get lost in the shuffle. Something like that! They hope to be back up today sometime.

Lin

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@...> wrote:
>
> As of this time it is apparently back down once more. They are probably working
> on reconstructing it once more, remembering the time of the great hacking.
>
> Bonnie L. Sherrell
> Teacher at Large
>
> "Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
>
> "Don't go where I can't follow."
>

On 7/22/2010 9:37 PM, Elizabeth Nield wrote:

>
>
> SOA's back up! But...it looks like everything posted after the beginning
> of March is GONE!!! :(
>
> Kaylee
>

Hi Kaylee,

I've been talking with Rorrah who does tech support for SOA, and she
explained there was a technical problem to do with an upgrade by their
host company. I won't go into technical details, except to say they know
about the problem and really are doing everything they can to get the
site back up ASAP. I think Rorrah and Nilmandra are working to get the
data back, and they expect to, though as with all technical issues the
"when" is sometimes a bit less predictable. :-)

Larner forwarded an announcement made by Rorrah, to another listserv I
belong to. (I do not personally belong to the SOA listserv, where the
announcements were initially made.) I am including them below, for
everyone's information; I cannot be sure how up-to-date they are,
though. If you or anyone else wants to receive all SOA announcements,
their listserv is

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stories_of_arda/

So I expect the data will be coming back, and urge everyone to be
patient. As for our own links to SOA, I am working right now on getting
those updated.

Marta



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: rorrah <rorrah@...>
Date: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Subject: [stories_of_arda] Re: Site Down
To: stories_of_arda@yahoogroups.com




All right, this ended up being partly our fault and partly the ISP's fault.

It turns out they migrated servers back in March. They even sent us an
email to
let us know.

Our fault, we didn't read it all the way through to realize we needed to do
something.

Their fault, they didn't tell us all that we needed to do.

So 4 months after migration, they decided to force the issue and we are
now on
their NEW system, bad news, the NEW system is exactly what the website
looked
like in March.

I have temporarily disabled the LOGIN feature until they fix the database.
They're going to track down the database that we've been using since
March and I
don't want any new data to get lost in the meantime.

It should all be resolved by tomorrow.

*crosses finger and contemplates buying KFC in lieu of sacrificing a live
chicken*

Rorrah