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URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by commandermack » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:22 am

I was logged in, talking to Raptor and Sally when all of a sudden, the site stopped responding. Tried all my available web browsers and they all had connecting errors.

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.paradoxthemusical.com.

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.paradoxthemusical.com

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.


I double checked them all before submitting the error.

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by commandermack » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:35 am

It just came back up, but everything is loading extremely slowly now.

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by commandermack » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:47 am

and it died again. yay! :(

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by unknownZ » Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:11 am

Same thing is happening to me. It just came back but its really laggy.


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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by trogdorable » Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:38 am

Yeah it was really laggy a couple hours ago when I tried and I noticed the lack of any updates on the front page as well as when you click the "More..." link it's just a blank page. I'm guessing there's some sort of maintenance going on. I'm sure all will be sorted shortly. As of right now I see 0 people are online and I'm guessing it's due to the same error I keep getting when trying to log in.

Login Failed
An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later.

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by unknownZ » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:17 am

yep, thats what I'm getting as well.

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by Grokly » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:53 am

Although the site is up and running, it looks like the SQL server has gone down. That explains the inability to log in and the absence of the announcements.

Gobberwart was sent a text message at around 1pm CDT, which was almost 90 minutes ago. Given the fact that it is now 5:20am in Melbourne, I'd venture to guess that it's going to be another 90 minutes or so before he sees the situation. Sit tight.
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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by commandermack » Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:06 am

trogdorable wrote:Yeah it was really laggy a couple hours ago when I tried and I noticed the lack of any updates on the front page as well as when you click the "More..." link it's just a blank page. I'm guessing there's some sort of maintenance going on. I'm sure all will be sorted shortly. As of right now I see 0 people are online and I'm guessing it's due to the same error I keep getting when trying to log in.

Login Failed
An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later.


The Updates not displaying and inability to log in is kinda new, it wasn't doing that before, but yeah, throw more on the fire. lol.

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by Gobberwart » Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:35 am

It's fixed. Server got rebooted by the hosting provider, but the database server failed to come back up properly. This is the second time in three days this has happened, and I'm trying to find out from them now what caused it and how to prevent it.
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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by Gobberwart » Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:39 am

trogdorable wrote:I'm guessing there's some sort of maintenance going on.
1. We will NEVER do "some sort of maintenance" without telling you.
2. If we were doing maintenance, you'd see the maintenance screen. This was a database service failure.

This is hosting provider jiggery pokery at its finest, but unfortunately moving to a better host (ie. dedicated server) is prohibitively expensive right now. As soon as we can afford it, we'll move. In the meantime, thanks everyone for your patience.
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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by Gobberwart » Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:55 am

Within a few minutes of the server coming back up, the load started again. I have to put the game into maintenance mode for a little while to test a few things. Will be back asap.
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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by commandermack » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:04 pm

good to see you are on it boss. :)

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by Gobberwart » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:13 pm

Even though load is still an ongoing issue, I've brought the game back online. It will be slow until the load is sorted out, but there's nothing more that I can do about it. I've got an urgent support ticket logged to HostV and all we can do is hope they get on it asap.
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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by trogdorable » Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:20 pm

Gobberwart wrote:1. We will NEVER do "some sort of maintenance" without telling you.
Yeah, I meant some sort of hostv maintenance that was fucking part of the game. Sorry I didn't clarify. I have no idea how their stuff works. Clearly I was wrong and it wasn't maintenance on their end, just failure.

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Re: URGENT - Unable to Connect

Unread post by Gobberwart » Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:36 pm

Heh, guess what? Response from HostV: "We had stopped all the vps in the main node as part of some quick maintenance work and currently the server load is back to normal.Kindly check back and do feel free to update us for further help."

So yeah, it was some "maintenance" on their end which, in turn, caused failure that I had to fix.

Just rest assured that WE won't do any maintenance without telling you. We're not that amateur :)
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