This is news to me. Ken is out of town but will return tonight. I'm pretty sure the hosting bill went through in the beginning of the year. I wonder if we exceeded our bandwidth limit or something.
:DClueless has been getting in contact with the host, but it's hard to get answers because she's the coder but not the person paying the bills/the owner so they weren't wholly willing to immediately talk to us. We're trying to get in touch with Ken to see what is up.
Money for hosting should not be an issue given that we've had enough donations to help cover it, plus a number of us, myself included, would be willing to cut a check to the host immediately if it was something that simple. My guess is either a check got lost in the mail, or arrived late and paperwork hasn't caught up on the host's end, or in some way it'd be kinda a backhanded compliment if we exceeded bandwidth allowance that we'd paid for simply because of popularity.
As soon as I find out more I'll let folks know. I'm hedging my bets on bandwidth being exceeded, and if this is something that may be a frequent issue in the future, I'm willing to pitch in to cover the charges for additional bandwidth.
If you haven't noticed, the site is currently down. Not to worry, it's
only temporary.
It's a technical issue with eating up too many processes. So, all data
and code is fine, and is currently being moved over to a temporary
server. So the site should be back online sometime today. It should
function the same as it always has at its temporary home, though I
imagine somewhat slower of a connection. During that time, it might be
a good idea to take a break from submitting and editing new content.
Mostly since we'll definitely be monkeying in the code to resolve the
issue and I don't want to worry about the loss of newly submitted data.
I'm talking with Tech Support, Sarah, and Eric to track down the
issue. Once that is resolved, the site should be moved back to it's
old home and everything will be back to normal.
I'll post more when I know more.
Thanks,
Ken
We got caught into a loop (or someone was spamming refresh) on an SQL
error on friday - I killed the code causing the loop but it might be the
repeated errors that was triggering that was causing the problem.
Especially if we were near our limits after that and then some little
issue just broke the camel's back. Basicly someones login got screwed up
in the database and instead of reporting the problem, they just hit
refresh continuously - as if that would fix it.
If they have a way to trace it back to a particular script or aspect of
code that was causing it I'd love to see it - if it's in SQL then I can
start going back through the system and pushing things into more of an
optimized system. There should be some way to backtrace it.
You may also want to find out if there's some way to associate me with an
'authorized person to answer code related questions' - that way I can go
'wtf' if something like this happens again. Once we're back up I'll put a
note in the forums reminding folks that if they see an SQL error it's
critically important that they tell us about it instead of ignoring it.
In the words of Danny Kaffee, "Now, I don't know what any of that means, but it sounds pretty bad."
In the words of Danny Kaffee, "Now, I don't know what any of that means, but it sounds pretty bad."
In laymen's terms, what happened is a member of Planewalker tried to log on, it caused an error somewhere in the system, and the code didn't properly trap the error, so it kept causing additional errors that eventually crashed the system.
Was it me? :D
Thanks ahead of time :D
Cool
Was it me? :D
Yes. All your fault.
Still dead
I'm not sure they can do anything until the website owner gets home (did I read it right that he's out of town?). Even after that it may take a little time to get it back up & running.
For months, I've mostly been lurking there and now, for the first time I feel like i really NEED to post something :D
I was able to access it for a little while last night/early this morning but it looks like it's back down again. I'm with you, Almighty_Watashi. It's like the longer it's gone, the more I want it.
Its likely that if they can work on it again, then they brought it up to do some testing, and took it back down when they were finished. My understanding is that they'll probably have to do some modifications to the code to see what's going on with untrapped errors.
Kwint
Any update on what's goin' on with PW.com?...
Kwint
Still working on the code. I'll ask Clueless once she's off of work. But as I understand it, she's been seriously busy with coding on other projects for work that had to be finished before the start of this week.
Still working on the code. I'll ask Clueless once she's off of work. But as I understand it, she's been seriously busy with coding on other projects for work that had to be finished before the start of this week.
Why does that sound so familiar? Oh wait, that describes my life! ;) Scary...
;)The poor website is still a dead duck.
Clueless is aiming for it being up at the end of the week, with the forums up a bit after that.
This is good news. Now watch, everyone will raid the site once it's up. :D
Of course they will.... we all need to get our Planewalker.com fix
But seriously, hopefully the site will be up to withstanding whatever is thrown at it. And hopefully not everyone will find out at once that the site is up.
I guess we will see when the site finally comes up :D
No planewalker makes me very sad.
No planewalker makes me realise now that perhaps I should have spent more time there than I had previously...
.THe teeth, they watch... they just... do.
Sigh...
Lol :D
Kwint
Was just over at PW.com and it seems some of it is back up...Forums were still down, but there's progress and proof of it...
Kwint
Wasn't going to officially say anything about it, but yeah. Hammering out any remaining bugs at the moment after the code changes.
Yep. She's back together. In a few more, the forums will be back up and then we'll be back where we were before.
Wow, you're a WizO now? Coolness, congratulations!
Wow, you're a WizO now? Coolness, congratulations!
Wiz-O Clueless has been a Wiz-O for over a year now ;)
Yeah, I've been a wizo for ... a year and a half, give or take.
Btw, you all know you're invited to my message boards, right? I've really been impressed with the level of thought expressed here (and on Planewalker, and Shemeska's Storyhour, etc.) and I've enjoyed everyone's input. My Planescape section is haunted pretty much by just me right now.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Planescape fans are hard to find, so it might be better if we all gathered in one forum and not have everyone make his own
Well, that's why I gave an invite - people can stop by or not, at their leisure, for whatever reason.
Does anyone know when the forums will be up, or about when?
Clueless needs some more virgins. Any volunteers?
: The Painter drops bugs in Clueless's pants! :
*suddenly Shrieks as something icky with multiple legs makes its prescence known - starts swatting at clothing in an entirely undignified manner*
- and I have a weekend halfway free (depending on how distracting Shemmy is). ;)
Muahahahaha! :angelhide
Planescape fans are hard to find, so it might be better if we all gathered in one forum and not have everyone make his own
I suspect its more popular than you think, especially when you cut out the detractors who hate it for reasons having nothing to do with the setting or just don't know what the heck their talking about.
Okay, so i think that people hating planescape and then confusing it for spelljammer shoud be taken out and shot, but those are mostly details :D
Clueless needs some more virgins. Any volunteers?
I'd raise my hand, but I have a vague memory of Clueless's husband being mentioned somewhere...
They can be dogs, right? :embarrass
I'd raise my hand, but I have a vague memory of Clueless's husband being mentioned somewhere...
Oh, they're not for her. She needs to feed them to the masters so they'll give us our Planewalker back.
The forums are back up if you folks haven't noticed.
Also: We have a new download, release v1.0 is up. This pdf contains v3.5 conversion of 2nd edition monsters from Astral Plane, Ethereal Plane, and the Plane of Shadow.
See http://www.planewalker.com/codex/download.php
I'd raise my hand, but I have a vague memory of Clueless's husband being mentioned somewhere...
*cough* My *what*?!?! *eyes wide*
Anyone else doing NaNoWriMo this year?
There's been movement on my part, but anything more than that needs time...
;)