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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Eeems on November 24, 2009, 10:20:02 am

Title: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Eeems on November 24, 2009, 10:20:02 am
United-TI is currently down due to a server change.

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Server change in progress. Please come back later

From Summer 2008 to Summer 2009, United-TI has seen more and more downtimes and the website was very hard to access at 3 AM GMT-5 due to extremly slow loading speed at this hour. Hopefully, the new server should fix this. Hopefully it will be avaliable again soon.

Update: it seems that UTI is doing some shifting around on the site. The forum has been relocated to http://unitedti.org/forum/
the forum was offline due to some problems with lost posts, and when I tried to connect to it recently this message was given
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IPS Driver Error

There appears to be an error with the database.
You can try to refresh the page by clicking here
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2009, 01:03:06 pm
Mhmm I guess that might be good in some ways. Last year until this summer, there were more and more downtimes. Site was also very slow around 3 AM of my time, making it very hard to access for Europeans during morning.

I hope they won't lose a bunch of posts like the last time they switched in 2005 and that the new server will be more stable, though x.x
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: ztrumpet on November 24, 2009, 01:48:42 pm
I'm glad there's somwhere else I can come. (Wow, just 10 days.) :)
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2009, 02:49:31 pm
10 days? what do you mean? I did not see anywhere stating how long UTI would be down
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Galandros on November 24, 2009, 03:31:56 pm
I don't remember problems in loading to UTI forums...
But I rarely visit in the mornings.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2009, 04:25:26 pm
There used to be a lot of days where it was down for like 12-24 hours. I think you were less active during the peak of it, though. That said, it was far less bad than what happened from November to December 2004, though.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: ztrumpet on November 24, 2009, 04:54:26 pm
10 days? what do you mean? I did not see anywhere stating how long UTI would be down
Sorry, I didn't mean it like that.  I meant I'd been here for 10 days. :)

UTI was still up at about 8:00 last night, but today I havn't been able to get on at all.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2009, 05:14:28 pm
Oh lol ok. You've been around for a bit longer than 10 days, though.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: ztrumpet on November 24, 2009, 05:18:19 pm
Okay, 16.  I guessed without checking...
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Eeems on November 24, 2009, 06:04:01 pm
Lol.
Actually it was still up at around 11pm my time...I hope they don't lose posts
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2009, 06:20:03 pm
Yeah, back in 2005, the server move caused database to corrupt, somewhat, and they lost like 10000 posts I think. That happened to Cemetech too twice, altough not because of server move. More a server crash/hack. TIMGUL database corrupted in June during a SMF upgrade from 2.0 RC1 to RC1.1 and it took one month to get fixed, and we lost about 3 months of posts.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: ztrumpet on November 24, 2009, 10:04:41 pm
I hope UTI dosn't lose posts.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Ti-newb on November 24, 2009, 10:16:40 pm
me neither, For me (or what ive seen so far), UTI has been really active. =D
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2009, 10:58:32 pm
If it won't stay down for very long (a day or two) and doesn't lose load of recent posts, I think they should pick up again very easily. Last night there were like 20 active topics in the past 24 hours, if not more.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Ti-newb on November 24, 2009, 11:02:31 pm
Yeah, i was amazed. and hopefully it goes smoothly.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Geekboy1011 on November 24, 2009, 11:08:14 pm
wow didnt know that and yeah hopefully it will e faster XD
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Eeems on November 25, 2009, 02:24:05 am
Well it's back up at the URL http://Unitedti.org/forum
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 25, 2009, 03:07:02 am
There appears to be lot of missing posts, like last time, though. Hopefully maybe they'll be restored soon. If you click some recently updated threads, the latest posts will sometimes be from last summer
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: ztrumpet on November 25, 2009, 09:42:06 am
Hmmm, I can't get passed the log in screen... ;D
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Eeems on November 25, 2009, 10:21:03 am
It seems that they have shut the board down until they have fixed the lost posts issue.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 25, 2009, 04:51:43 pm
Yeah, hopefully they can resolve it soon. I am glad it is being resolved, though. I was a bit worried at first, considering both AlienCC and NETWizz seems to have faded away from the TI scene for a long while.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: Eeems on November 26, 2009, 11:59:16 pm
Yeah :/ hopefully soon

I just updated the first post with the most current situation.
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 27, 2009, 02:50:21 am
Now it,s back to server change in progress message.

Could they be trying to move back to the old server? We never know, maybe the OS or hardware won't support IPB or something x.x

I remember when they originally moved in 2006 the second time, IRC started to act all glitchy
Title: Re: UTI is down for a little bit.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 07, 2010, 05:01:25 am
UTI is supposed to be switching domain name registrars at the moment. However it seems to be taking kinda long for the site to be back up, and shortly before the downtime, Netwizz seemed to be worried about the whole process taking longer than supposed to startup at all. I hope they did not get problems with their domain name x.x. I heard horror stories about domain names getting lost in the past. (They've been down for a bit over a day now, btw)