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WXforum.net outage - 25 - 31 December, 2019 .. we're back now.
vreihen:
Is there a reason why you continue to host with Ionos/1and1 after these repeated demonstrations of their technical incompetence? If you were hosting on Amazon AWS or a similar provider, you could have rebooted the MySQL instance and been back to the holiday celebration in minutes. Just curious.....
mikeym2m:
Ken, thanks for all the Hard Work [tup]
Happy New Year to you and your family!
:grin:
Cheers
MikeyM
galfert:
Ken,
Thank you for all the work in restoring the forum. Thank you for keeping the users informed via the index page, that was much appreciated. I can not believe how terrible Ionos handled this situation. It is not like it was the first time this has happened (since it happened last month). I sent a nice (cordial but stern) email to Ionos management expressing my thoughts on how badly this issue was being handled. I have a followup yet to send to them. I can not believe that I never got a response back from them since I sent it a couple of days ago. This situation exemplifies the importance of backups. Glad you had a almost recent backup (8 days) at hand but that you persisted on restoring everything. It was worth it.
Happy New Year!
saratogaWX:
--- Quote from: PaulMy on December 31, 2019, 12:08:56 PM ---Thanks Ken for getting things back up and running. Your ongoing update blog certainly helped and gave confidence that things were being worked on.
I trust you were still able to enjoy some holiday spirit.
Back to enjoy,
Paul
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Hi Paul,
Yes, the Christmas was quite enjoyable and low key. We had unexpected visits from Southern California of my neice and brother-in-law. Christmas Eve celebration was with son and two granddaughters (ages 5 and 7). Over the weekend, I did my 48th sing-it-yourself Messiah sing.
In all, very enjoyable, despite the monitoring/nagging of ionos progress about the database server outage.
--- Quote from: vreihen on December 31, 2019, 12:16:01 PM ---Is there a reason why you continue to host with Ionos/1and1 after these repeated demonstrations of their technical incompetence? If you were hosting on Amazon AWS or a similar provider, you could have rebooted the MySQL instance and been back to the holiday celebration in minutes. Just curious.....
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It's simple, really .. I've been with ionos/1and1 since 2004 starting with a shared server for Saratoga-weather.org. In September, 2016, I changed Saratoga-weather.org from a Business Linux (shared) to a Virtual Server L Linux package and moved a bunch of the regional networks there also. I upgraded to a Virtual Server Cloud/Linux/Plesk in February 2019 and that's where Saratoga-weather.org (and 9 regional networks) reside.
For WXForum.net, it was created in 2006 on Hostgator by capeweather(Chris) as a subsite to his capeweather.com site when weatherforum.net died and we resurrected it. It stayed there until March, 2013 when it was moved to a new shared hosting at 1and1 and I took over admin of the service. I wanted it to be separate from my Saratoga-weather.org site set so it could be somewhat easily moved if need be. In the time since 2013, there have been only two major outages, both caused by 1and1/ionos mySQL servers complaining about max user connections for the DB user.
Since I'm footing the bill for hosting of WXForum.net, it just made sense to me to have it added on to my existing 1and1 contracts rather than setting up entirely new hosting with another hoster. The devil I know and all that.
I am looking at rolling this shared hosting to a new VPS as my existing VPS has proven very stable, and the support for VPS is excellent.. calls about it are answered by knowledgeable linux geeks and problems have been fixed while on the phone call -- a stark difference between shared and dedicated hosting.
I also didn't want to have a usage-based VPS because the forum is subject to the vagaries of rogue bots and can wildly drive up usage whereas a dedicated VPS has a fixed monthly cost -- that's why AWS (etc) wasn't attractive to me at all.
daneast:
Regarding hosting, I have been using RamNode for years and have been extremely happy with them. I'm operating a pretty large online service, that also has dedicated iOS and Android apps, and their hosting has been great. $10 a month gets you a quadcore, SSD VPS instance with 4 TB of monthly bandwidth. I very much doubt you would need more than that to run your forums (I also operated a large discussion forum several years back). You can just run a MySQL server on the same instance as your apache server. It looks like you're just a standard LAMP stack - so I would look for better hosting, and especially more direct control over your MySQL server.
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