Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 If you're wondering why the site was down during the day on Saturday, it's because AtariAge was being moved to a new server. The new server is a fair bit faster than the older one, plus it's running newer versions of Apache (the web server) and PHP (the computer language pretty much the entire site is programmed in). I've also done some other performance tuning as well, and you should notice that the forums are a fair bit faster than before. The move didn't go as smoothly as I would have liked (ahh, computers, what a love/hate relationship), but it appears that everything is working properly now. If you notice anything that's out of place or you get strange error messages anywhere, please let me know and I'll try to fix the problem as quickly as possible. Undoubtedly there will be some minor issues that will need to be ironed out.. Enjoy! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Good. I thought I was going insane cause it was down several hours before I went to work but then back up once I got in to work. So I thought maybe my home connections was wacky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 (edited) The "winky" emoticon is broke. just shows up as a semi-colon followed by a closing parenthesis now, even when using the emoticon table to enter it. Edit: Okay, never mind. It worked here. But why doesn't it show up properly over here? Edited November 11, 2007 by skunkworx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 The "winky" emoticon is broke. just shows up as a semi-colon followed by a closing parenthesis now, even when using the emoticon table to enter it. Edit: Okay, never mind. It worked here. But why doesn't it show up properly over here? Good question. I edited the post and saved it, and that didn't fix it. Hmmm. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I was a bit worried too, when www.atariage.com couldn't be reached anymore yesterday. Though I thought that it was due a mistake of my provider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 I was a bit worried too, when www.atariage.com couldn't be reached anymore yesterday. Though I thought that it was due a mistake of my provider. The transition was supposed to go smoothly as far as the transition from one server to another without any apparent "downtime" (that is, you should always have been able to connect to one server or the other). But I managed to bungle that up nicely. Hopefully by now everyone can see the new server. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 The transition was supposed to go smoothly as far as the transition from one server to another without any apparent "downtime" (that is, you should always have been able to connect to one server or the other). Then it didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 The transition was supposed to go smoothly as far as the transition from one server to another without any apparent "downtime" (that is, you should always have been able to connect to one server or the other). Then it didn't work. Yeah, I know. That's what, "But I managed to bungle that up nicely" means. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Bungles are usually good things, though. Just ask Jethro Tull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 Bungles are usually good things, though. Just ask Jethro Tull. I know nothing of what a bungle is in terms of Jethro Tull. I do know what it means in my context: "To handle badly; botch." ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 Here's a printout of the list I made before starting the move. Of course, things didn't go smoothly so I ended up doing at least twice as much as is on the list. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwardude Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 (edited) Don't know if it's just me, but I get this when I go to the main page. Edited due to dual images (previously saw same thing last night, but got an error message when I tried to post the topic) Edited November 11, 2007 by starwardude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 Don't know if it's just me, but I get this when I go to the main page. Yeah, a few people are experiencing it. Glad you posted, though, as I was able to look through the server error log and there are several errors that were generated when you loaded the main page. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this problem myself, so it's kind of trial and error. I assume following this link works for you? http://www.atariage.com/index.html ? Thanks, ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uzumaki Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Browser and versions would help as it could be specific to browser or a version of browser. Everything looks OK on my end using Firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I'm still having prob with the forums and not being able to connect as of 11/11/07 6:20 EST I get that friendly duck from Adventure greeting me It happens off and on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 friendly duck * kicks Breakpack in the nuts * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 I'm still having prob with the forums and not being able to connect as of 11/11/07 6:20 EST I get that friendly duck from Adventure greeting me It happens off and on Somewhere the old DNS information is being cached. I would suggest rebooting your computer (in case your computer is caching it) and clearing your browser's cache. Otherwise it's probably your ISP and until they update their DNS servers, not much you can really do.. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PressureCooker2600 Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 That screen that starwardude has is exactly the same screen I have, too. Only when I use the internet via AOL, though. If I go directly to Internet Explorer, everything's hunky-dory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwardude Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 All seems well now. The violet line in the image I posted previously was how I had accessed the forums. It led me to a page that stated that a post or topic didn't exist, but had the normal heading on the top of the page (I.E. the AA logo, AtariAge, "Have You Played Atari Today?", etc). From there I went to the forums index. I apologize if my response is a bit late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 friendly duck * kicks Breakpack in the nuts * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uzumaki Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 I tried using the forgotten password forum and I had a hard time with the "security code" images. Took me a few retries to find the right guess as the image didn't make clear distinction between 8 and B, O and 0, etc. And sometimes there's dark letter/numbers over dark spot (or light over light) that makes reading even harder. Also there seems to be an issue getting new image: Confirm security codePlease enter the 6 character code shown in the image. If you cannot read the code, click the image to generate a new one. Case sensitive. Clicking on the image doesn't work for me. I've had to do best guess and retry several times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Somewhere the old DNS information is being cached. I would suggest rebooting your computer (in case your computer is caching it) and clearing your browser's cache. Otherwise it's probably your ISP and until they update their DNS servers, not much you can really do.. Uhm, IP address? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 Somewhere the old DNS information is being cached. I would suggest rebooting your computer (in case your computer is caching it) and clearing your browser's cache. Otherwise it's probably your ISP and until they update their DNS servers, not much you can really do.. Uhm, IP address? Sure, people can access the forum directly by using the IP address: http://216.40.231.66/~atariage/forums/ ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PressureCooker2600 Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Of the two laptops in my house, the one running Firefox has everything coming up perfectly. The one I use all the time, though, is the one that has that garbled stuff when going straight to atariage.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PressureCooker2600 Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 I just tried it out on my normal laptop and it works fine now. No more garbled stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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