Recent Downtime

It has been a frustrating few days after a recent AWS outage borked MySQL connections for our blog and forums. The host resolved this quickly for sites hosted in North America region, but dfworkshop.net was hosted in the closest datacentre to Australia (Asia region), and this continues to be down at time of writing. And after almost 48 hours, I’m still unable to obtain time-frame for fix.

I’ve worked around this by migrating sites to North America region with functioning MySQL servers. Unfortunately, databases couldn’t migrate because source servers still aren’t live. To fix this, I restored from the most recent backup available taken on 25/02/17. For the blog this isn’t a problem as nothing was posted in this time, but for forums this means all posts, replies, PMs, and new user registrations created after 25/02/17 are not part of the restore.

I’ve locked the forums for now and will continue working with host to try and recover a later version of databases. Outcome is dependent on how quickly host can resolve MySQL issue in Asia region. If they can’t fix this in next 24 hours, I’ll unlock forums and we’ll just move on. I’d rather have a functioning site than sweat over a few days of lost posts.

I apologise if you registered to forums or posted anything after the 25th. Forums will be back online within 24 hours and we can pick up where left off one way or another. Thank you for your patience!

Update: Forums are back online now. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like I’m getting those live databases back. This means I have to start from most recent backup as of 25/02/17. Please repost to any active conversations you were participating in prior to outage and we’ll be back on track in no time.

Posted in Other, Workshop News.

One Comment

  1. thanks for the update.
    Man that is something, one guy enters a single char wrong on a single command and crashes half the internet? wtf

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