Outage Explination
I have just restored all services. I was traveling to the OC and two days into the trip the hypervisor had a panic. A reboot was issued although the VM's failed to auto-start as an internal network interface was missing the presence of dnsmasq. I did not have anything but my iPhone with me and hypervisor access is via private network only. I will be placing domain admin and VPN access with a close friend as well as reviewing configurations, fixing them and doing a test reboot at some point to ensure this can not be such catastrophe going forward.
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Although it was ages ago, this does remind me of one time when I was out for a couple of days, and when I returned I found a particular system I was responsible for has been down the entire time. And the idiots there had left it down because they felt they required my glorious expertise to mash the reset button. :P
I wonder if Rioter got finished messing around with his mirror? I had sent him a PM just before things went boom boom, but obviosuly he had not seen it yet.
I decided to not bother the website for awhile after that.
Initially when the site went down, Winworld's DNS was just not responding, but one could still access it using an IP address. Although after the reboot it got confused and totally died.
Damn.
Oh well that's life it really doesn't revolve around your needs.
Good to hear that every thing is a Ok. I thought your were rolling out the new layout with the forums being integrated into the archives. Or that you through in the towel with this place.
I was worried this site had gone down completely actually given some stuff I'd heard elsewhere but nope, glad to see it's back up. Whilst I have FTP access at a certain other abandonware site, that is a pain to setup and I've only used it once. This place is great for simple fast abandonware downloads.
But everyone seems to have their own preferred method of communicating. Personally, I prefer good old e-mail. Although when the site was down, it also took out the Winworldpc e-mail addresses. I don't normally use IRC, and I won't touch twatter or farcebook with a ten foot pole.
Hopefully the downtime doesn't happen again, I was worried there... funnily enough BA got a ton new signups from the looks of things when WW went down. Maybe a WinWorld subreddit with site status and site-related discussion would be nice to try but yeah, that defeats the point of the forum!
Someone actually took the liberty to make a subreddit. I'm waiting for the mod control to be passed over to our staff. It should not be treated as official until then.
Otherwise just wait until Reddit lock the sub and make it available again after inactivity
Done. Moderation invitation sent.
Accepted. However only WinWorld staff can have powers over anything bearing the name of WinWorld, so if you can't take yourself off the moderator list, you need to just remove the subreddit entirely. Thank you.
Yes, I have resigned.