Downtime and database upgrades
Posted by david on 20 Mar 2016 at 12:39 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Last night our hosting provider was having work done in the facility where our server is hosted and the power got turned off. We run a very minimal setup here at Green Felt, which means we don’t have backup servers for situations like these. Hence the downtime last night and this morning.
While things were down we decided to take the opportunity to upgrade one of our offsite database backups. Now that the machine is back up we’ll be copying that upgraded data back to the server. During this time the site will be up and games will be playable, but high scores and the leader board will not work. Also logging in and creating users will not work, though if you are currently logged in you should stay logged in. Games will still be saved to our offline queue, and when the DB is back up and running we will write all the games in the offline queue back to the database.
We’re not sure how long the DB copy will take, but lets assume it will be a couple hours.
Edit [1:52 PM]: We’re having trouble with the upgrade so we’re going to bring the DB back up and try again sometime in the future. Everything should be running now.
Love your games and website. It helps me take a break from all the craziness in this world and problem-solve for fun. Love Your town, too. I live in New York and it is becoming such a mundane place, just a massive mall. Mr. Trump’s sieg heil! All the creative, interesting people are disappearing. There is only one objective in this town now. Buy and sell and make as much money as possible. That is all that matters anymore. So thanks for the free break from all the insanity. Boy, do I need to get up to the mountains and take a hike upon our dear Mother Earth near God’s heaven.
Oh and thanks for explaining. I went to the DowntimeUptime site and it confirmed that your site was down and that it was not a problem on this end. By the way, I joined your site but cannot remember my password. I do not know why I did not write it down and I apparently forgot to use one of my standard PWs. Will join again soon unless you can retrieve my original login.
Thanks for all you do.
I guess you must just be “paying forward.”
I’ve been playing your site for years, and never have received a bill — not even a tip jar.
So very glad you’re back!
Thank you guys! What a pleasure to take a break from the chaos and challenge the mind with a game or two that is, actually, still a challenge! (I still can’t complete ALL the Seahaven layouts — and it’s more fun that way!)
You provide a really nice service.
As for Lis’s comments above — I couldn’t possibly agree more!
Thank you again, and
Best wishes from a former upstate gal now a Jersey gal!
-Jeanette
I so glad you’re up and running. I love your website. It’s the best solitaire site available. Thank you so much!
I didn’t realize how much better your card site is than everyone else until you went down for a few days. You do an amazing job. It’s great to have you back!
Like others, very pleased you weren’t terminated by a hacker or … Great way to relax and still use grey matter. Thanks
Great to see you back up and running! Great job!
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