Flops, bad luck and mishaps

Bad luck pursues us now. Murphy had destroyed our Master data base server on Monday and on Wednesday it was the Slave’s turn which has had to take on the complete data base history since the first breakdown. Honestly: We have had no idea until now why the servers were so angry that they completely refused their service.

The Master data base server broke down from one to another minute on Monday. Of course, we immediately reached for the receiver and let changed RAM, network interface cards and everything of the hardware which often breaks. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really helped on. That’s why we firstly changed the whole data base operation over to the remained server to calmly work on the Master.

The hard discs were changed in the evening and the system was put on new. Actually, everything run again to our satisfaction around two o’clock. The word “actually” is really suitable. There have been several smaller blackouts which we interpreted as hiccups, until the server broke down again in the early Wednesday evening. It totally stuck this time and showed other error symptoms. But it fastly fell back into old patterns.

The second data base server met its maker around 10 p.m. to all abundance by imitating his brother. The same symptoms, the same problem.

Of course, it arose a certain inconsistency of the datas through this back and forth. We do apologize for this. Some images and some new users did unfortunately not manage it across to the new temporary server.

We had to lay hands on a new server- which has to do everything except managing data bases- to keep the homepage online because we slowly ran out of data base servers. It can happen that we will have to turn off the count of the hits and visitors on the images because this function can be very hard for the small server.

The image upload will remain closed until we will have the certainty from the computer centre that we won’t be able to pull newer datas out of both servers anymore to update the current data existence because it can be possible that otherwise more things will be able to be confused. We ask for apologizing this circumstance.

You can be up to date about the current state through Twitter and summaries here. We thank you very much for your patience and promise you that we will really do everything to solve the problems as fast as possible.

Yours sincerely,
Markus und Tim

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