YAAAAAY… 
I emailed Lieven and apparently server needed a physical kick in a butt and only one person could have done it who was unavailable. Hence the outage
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I suspect @DavidP is still under sedation…his fingers must be twitching ready to type (only joking of course David).
What an outage though! I do hope the community is “hosted” rather than on a server sitting under someones desk 
Will there be another open mic session soon? I’m so new to this, It takes me a minute to catch the flow.
Thanks,
Todd
Auch… with no fall-back server to kick in, that can get pretty hairy, pretty quick. As we have experienced.
Hopefully this isn’t run on a server in someones garage. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as long as you have a backup plan in case of failure.
Anyway, it’s good to be back!
Todd
Justin is organising a Holiday Special Livestream style Open Mic December 10th
I’ll be announcing the next Community Open Mic once that has been broadcast/streamed, so keep an eye out here but Open Mic XIII/13 will be January 21st 2023 and the start of a new season.
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Or in a locked vault that no one has access to
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So it was just a garden variety outage? I thought maybe my past caught up with me or the mods determined that my presence was no longer needed or welcome. Either way, hello again everyone!
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And there’s me thinking @brianlarsen had finally managed to break the forum. After all he has in the past changed the song topic title names etc.
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I’ve got really bad withdrawal symptoms…………… 
It’s so good to have the forum back 
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I thought, it were only my own computer problem and was afraid, I’m missing loads of posts. Very reassuring to know that it was a general breakdown 
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Thanks to the team for doing a great job and bringing the forum back to life 
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I’d also like to know. My guess though, is database full / out of space. The symptoms seem to be the same. Would be very curious as to the actual reason.
I was using the community when it went offline and I could browse, but then replies stopped working, then it turned into a HTTP 500 (server error).
Discourse (the platform) has a default install in a single docker image, including database, redis, web, etc. It can be split out into multiple docker images for scalability and there is some capability to do a high availability setup but it’s a bit complicated.
I hope they found a good use for the old server
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I initially thought that too, but I’m guessing, given the length of time, it may have been something more curly.
Been out of the IT game for some years now, so not up to speed with alot of the technical aspects of some modern systems/architecture. I’m just being nosey.
Reminds me of a ‘funny’ incident in the late 90’s when I worked for a large regional ISP in NSW. Mayhem one morning, with customer support lines going crazy, due to no access. People running around everywhere, scratching their heads, trying to locate the problem. The upshot? A tradie had been in overnight to install some new server cabinets. He accessed a power source for his little vacuum cleaner to clean up after the job, and had inadvertently dislodged another connection on the unit. Unfortunately that fed straight into our authentication server. As luck would have it, backup systems were taken offline just 12 hours before, awaiting a piece of hardware later that day. Fun times.
Cheers, Shane
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Hi everyone, good to be back to the forum again. I first thought the problem was on my side, but I realised soon, that this might be a general problem.
Funny to see, that I was really concerned about it after only 24h. My coffee brakes were a little “empty” without that little quick glance on the forum site. Suddenly, I realised how much I would miss the support and exchange.
I appreciated the responses of the JG team very much, who kindly answered to my messages within 24h. Thanks for that! Glad to be back! 
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Yes that’s what I thought too.
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I hope we all took the opportunity to actually practice rather than procrastinate on here during the hiatus! 
Good to be back
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Yeah, wrote a new song “Where’s my Community Gone”
Woke up this morning
the JGC was off the air
Woke up this morning
the JGC was off the air
That damn egg timer keeps on spinning
and I’m pullin out ma hair
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My life is just so empty
I’m feelin’ oh so blue
Justin and my other pals
Where the #### are you.
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