May 2, 2007 10 Comments

For those of you wondering about IMOC

Further Update - thanks for everybodies comments below, as of about lunchtime today the hosting provider resolved the problems with the RAID setup and the read only filesystem, and IMOC is back up and running.

Yes - it’s down at the moment, and no, its not totally scheduled downtime. We were waiting for the new hosting provider to put in the rest of the memory into the new server, which it looks like they have now done - but something has gone terribly awry with it when it came back up.. We’re working on it at the moment.

Added - Ok, looks as if part of the filesystem only remounted read-only when the machine came back up, and a subsequent attempted reboot has not made things any better. We will be issuing a support request to the hosting provider, and hopefully they can fix whatever has gone wrong with the machine.

More Added - It looks like the machine will be down until at least tomorrow morning..

Updated News - The latest from the hosting company is that when they shut the machine down to install the memory, they didn’t shut it down cleanly, and it’s borked the RAID’ed disks, so they’ve got into a kind of panic mode for safety. They are working on it now.

Final Word on the matter : Is back on the now functioning IMOC Forums

Hmm, if you’re bored, can I suggest this thing from YouTube instead :
You put the lime in the coconut… I say, doctor!

Speedy
IMOC Committee

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10 comments so far

  1. Neil May 2, 2007 9:05 pm

    Thanks for the info. Best of luck, flip :)

  2. Fizz May 2, 2007 10:17 pm

    The lime in the coconut… hmm.. strange way your mind works matey… although it was strangely arousing… lol

  3. rookie-racer May 2, 2007 10:20 pm

    only imoc could go from seriously fast cars to a serious server crisis and sign off with the muppets - quality

    i love this crowd

  4. alex May 2, 2007 10:24 pm

    @Fizz - er, was meant to just be amusing after 60 minutes of banging my head against the server.. :)

    @rookie-racer - thanks.. I think!

  5. Fizz May 2, 2007 10:49 pm

    and indeed it was amusing and totally random like IMOC… :)

    Good luck in gettin it back up .. oooo err missus… :p

  6. Quigonjay May 2, 2007 11:24 pm

    i’m getting cold turkey

  7. Harry May 3, 2007 12:39 am

    lol

  8. Greddy-matt May 3, 2007 10:37 am

    Please, please get it up and running soon or I’ll actually have to do some work this week :-)

  9. MonkeyMax May 3, 2007 11:18 am

    Hmm, I’m actually getting some work done this morning… LOL. Well, until I saw the muppets video now that’ll be playing in the background for a bit!
    Good luck sorting it out Speedy!

  10. Tony Jinxy Froude December 6, 2007 6:51 pm

    Yep i need my fix too, so pull your finger out Alex !! :0)

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