After nearly 6 days of downtime the forum website is again active. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Some things to consider...
1. No one is making money off this site, so there was no financial impact.
2. There is no life or death need to have this site. I make it available for entertainment and knowledge sharing.
Having said that, I am interested in hearing everyone's opinion on this. Please share your thoughts and feelings in this thread.
Thanks.
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Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
- centrop67
- Site Admin
- Posts: 3581
- Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:42 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Owned by Hondo and Mustang - two MAD rescue dogs.
- Location: Cutler Bay, FL, USA
Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
Michael
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
RIP: Leela, Radar, Tequila, and Snickers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers |
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- Working Dog
- Posts: 1371
- Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:11 pm
- Tell us about yourself: I am: a father of 2 boys, a carpenter, hunter, runner. We have extensive experience with sled dogs, shepherd mixes, a wolf hybrid, and our current dog a 95# long haired Shiloh Shepherd. We added Endeavor in April 2016. She was not working out in HRD. I train for game recovery and general utility.
- Location: central MD
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
Frustrating. We've got a nice community here
Tim L.
Aurora(Shiloh) Endeavor
Aurora(Shiloh) Endeavor
- centrop67
- Site Admin
- Posts: 3581
- Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:42 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Owned by Hondo and Mustang - two MAD rescue dogs.
- Location: Cutler Bay, FL, USA
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
Thanks Tim. I hear you, and I feel the same way.
Michael
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
RIP: Leela, Radar, Tequila, and Snickers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers |
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- Training Dog
- Posts: 468
- Joined: Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:19 am
- Tell us about yourself: Own a Mal and a Dutchie.
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
What was the reason for the site being down?
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- Working Dog
- Posts: 1634
- Joined: Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:38 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Loving every crazy day with my DS in CA and UT.
- Location: Southern California
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
You had me in a panic. I was looking for it and had trouble finding it. I felt bad for being absent so long and hoped that it was gone forever.
Then Steve asked what happened to it today and I felt panicked again thinking that maybe it was no longer active.
My shortcut even disappeared.
What happened?
Then Steve asked what happened to it today and I felt panicked again thinking that maybe it was no longer active.
My shortcut even disappeared.
What happened?
Saralee
Rogue (Dutch Shepherd) 2 years old
Joachimstaler @ IG
Rogue (Dutch Shepherd) 2 years old
Joachimstaler @ IG
- centrop67
- Site Admin
- Posts: 3581
- Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:42 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Owned by Hondo and Mustang - two MAD rescue dogs.
- Location: Cutler Bay, FL, USA
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
At around 5:30pm EDT last Friday (9/21/18) the hosting company where the forum website resides suffered a major outage.
The site eventually came back up early Wednesday (9/26/18) morning.
The hosting company admits that a set of multiple mistakes, assumptions, and damaged backup data led them to the problem and hassle bringing their system back up. Here's a snippet from the communication sent during the outage:
The site eventually came back up early Wednesday (9/26/18) morning.
The hosting company admits that a set of multiple mistakes, assumptions, and damaged backup data led them to the problem and hassle bringing their system back up. Here's a snippet from the communication sent during the outage:
Michael Denney - MDDHosting LLC wrote:**What happened?**
First and foremost - this failure is not something that we planned on or expected. A server administrator, the most experienced administrator we have, made a big mistake. During some routine maintenance where they were supposed to perform a _file system trim_ they mistakenly performed a _block discard_.
**What does this mean?**
The server administrator essentially told our storage platform to drop all data rather than simply dropping data that had been marked as _deleted_ by our servers.
**Why is restoration taking so long?**
Initially we believed that only the primary operating system partition of the servers was damaged - so we worked to bring new machines online to connect to our storage to bring accounts back online. Had our initial belief been correct - we'd have been back online in a few hours at most.
As it turns out our local data was corrupted beyond repair - to the point that we could not even mount the file systems to attempt data recovery.
Michael
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
RIP: Leela, Radar, Tequila, and Snickers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers |
- centrop67
- Site Admin
- Posts: 3581
- Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:42 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Owned by Hondo and Mustang - two MAD rescue dogs.
- Location: Cutler Bay, FL, USA
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
As an FYI - I do promote the website with a Facebook page, and while I know some of you do not do Facebook or any social media, I kept posting updates during the problem on Facebook.
I am willing to expand to other social media tools such as Twitter or Instagram if there are members not on FB but on these platforms.
Please feel free to share if you have a preferred platform, and I will start promoting the website there as well.
I am willing to expand to other social media tools such as Twitter or Instagram if there are members not on FB but on these platforms.
Please feel free to share if you have a preferred platform, and I will start promoting the website there as well.
Michael
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
RIP: Leela, Radar, Tequila, and Snickers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers |
- centrop67
- Site Admin
- Posts: 3581
- Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:42 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Owned by Hondo and Mustang - two MAD rescue dogs.
- Location: Cutler Bay, FL, USA
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
Saralee, I am hoping you meant to write "wasn't gone forever."
I need to start thinking about the future of the site. Right now, if something happens to me, there is no contingency for keeping it going.
Michael
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
Location - Cutler Bay, FL USA
RIP: Leela, Radar, Tequila, and Snickers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers |
- Tennessee3
- Green Dog
- Posts: 139
- Joined: Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:29 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Nicholas or Nick, doesn't matter to me.
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
I’m still coming to terms with it, it’s just too soon for me to talk about what happened.
I had to go on Facebook to find out what was going on.... I feel dirty just typing that.
I had to go on Facebook to find out what was going on.... I feel dirty just typing that.
Nicholas
Millie WLGSD in training for Schutzhund 5/27/17 & Grendel KNPV lines Malinois same + PP work 2/15/18
...... Mals are tan dutchies, right?
https://www.instagram.com/nick_millie_and_grendel/
Millie WLGSD in training for Schutzhund 5/27/17 & Grendel KNPV lines Malinois same + PP work 2/15/18
...... Mals are tan dutchies, right?
https://www.instagram.com/nick_millie_and_grendel/
- borellar15
- Training Dog
- Posts: 390
- Joined: Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:28 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Living in Austin, Texas with our dogs Zoey(DS), Henry (DS) and Tripper(labX). In college, I worked as a Handler and Assistant Manager of a training and daycare facility for 3 years where I've handled many working dogs. For the past 2 years I have been training Zoey and Henry and we have made some tremendous progress together.
- Location: Austin, Texas
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
Tennessee3 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:11 pm I’m still coming to terms with it, it’s just too soon for me to talk about what happened.
Alex - Zoey(DS), Henry (DS), Tripper Lab mix. Austin, Texas
- Tennessee3
- Green Dog
- Posts: 139
- Joined: Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:29 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Nicholas or Nick, doesn't matter to me.
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
I’ll take over as admin, I’ll forward a list of my terms Monday morning.
Wednesday is looking strong for a contingency planning meeting.
Nicholas
Millie WLGSD in training for Schutzhund 5/27/17 & Grendel KNPV lines Malinois same + PP work 2/15/18
...... Mals are tan dutchies, right?
https://www.instagram.com/nick_millie_and_grendel/
Millie WLGSD in training for Schutzhund 5/27/17 & Grendel KNPV lines Malinois same + PP work 2/15/18
...... Mals are tan dutchies, right?
https://www.instagram.com/nick_millie_and_grendel/
- Tennessee3
- Green Dog
- Posts: 139
- Joined: Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:29 pm
- Tell us about yourself: Nicholas or Nick, doesn't matter to me.
Re: Thoughts and Comments on the Recent Downtime
Sorry Cent. I know this is a big deal and I’m making jokes.
It was annoying, this is one of the few places left that has a good membership of people that I can share with & learn from concerning working dogs like these. And provides a great resource and an ethical promotion of the breed.
It was annoying, this is one of the few places left that has a good membership of people that I can share with & learn from concerning working dogs like these. And provides a great resource and an ethical promotion of the breed.
Nicholas
Millie WLGSD in training for Schutzhund 5/27/17 & Grendel KNPV lines Malinois same + PP work 2/15/18
...... Mals are tan dutchies, right?
https://www.instagram.com/nick_millie_and_grendel/
Millie WLGSD in training for Schutzhund 5/27/17 & Grendel KNPV lines Malinois same + PP work 2/15/18
...... Mals are tan dutchies, right?
https://www.instagram.com/nick_millie_and_grendel/