UKMIX Maintenance

[Wayne]

Had it for 2 days running, but fine last night.

When that happens, literally nothing I can do until I wake up and reboot the server manually.

[bm08]

Having a lot of lag and errors last few hours.

[Leo]

not complaining at all as i think hosting this forum is a tremendous job, but apparently my peak time to be in ukmix is when the site tends to fall (at least lately)... so I wonder Wayne , is this rebooting you need to do something physical, or is a way that someone in another time zone, meainng America or Asia, could be a back up of you so if the site needs this rebooting your back-up could do it?

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[Airwrecka]

I can’t seem to access the site after about midnight each night. Nothing will load.

[Wayne]

I can’t seem to access the site after about midnight each night. Nothing will load.

It’s when the backup script runs - typically, the site might go down for around 30 mins. But if the server plays up, it can go down for longer and might not come back up until I manually reboot it.

[Airwrecka]

It’s when the backup script runs - typically, the site might go down for around 30 mins. But if the server plays up, it can go down for longer and might not come back up until I manually reboot it.

Oh ok. It’s just a shame because I haven’t been able to access at all this week from around 12-3 am.

I know you’re doing everything you can, and I appreciate it. Running or moderating a site like this can sometimes feel like a thankless task, so thank you for all you are doing. I just hope a fix of some sort can be found as it’s when I most like to visit the site.

[Wayne]

I’ve pushed the automatic backup script back so it runs 3 hours later
(so between 3-5am U.K. time) - it runs via a cron job so fairly easy to adjust.

We’ll see how this goes - at least if it the site does go down, I’m more likely to be awake to reboot the server.

[Blondini]

[westhammer]

I think it must go down regularly around that time because I have frequent issues getting the site to load on my mobile (Australian day time)

[Wayne]

Hopefully been a bit better recently now that I’ve adjusted the time? Won’t be to everyone’s liking but in terms of the reducing the total number of people impacted, hopefully better.

[Wayne]

For information, the site is currently struggling - I’ve had probably 70+ database errors. I’ll take a look at why when I’m back home but just wanted to share for now in case anyone is wondering.