cliff

took ages to get meatspin.com out of my DNS cache on my phone ... thanks cliff

You loved it

Just had to explain to the wife what meatspin was .... told her it was better to 'experience' it.

....I think I'm getting a divorce now

Hokay ... sites now on a NEW server! Lets hope this one holds up a little better

We're missing about an hours worth of posts, as the old server popped it's clogs before I could get the last DB dump - still, an hours not too bad considering!

There's still a couple of back end things I need to crack up still, but the majority of it all should be working.

An probs, I'm sure you'll all let me ono

Hokay ... I *think* I've cracked it.

Let me know if it has any more issues

We're working on it.

Attempting to put a reasonable policer on the server, so it doesn't whore all the bandwidth (which is has a habit of doing!) - you guys spam far too much

I've opened it up to full throttle for the time being, and will work back from there.

Happy mediums etc ... harder to achieve in practice than in theory

Is it just me or is the board time way out of wack?

Thanks for that ... throw in an updated tzdata and turned on the ntp server .. time should be corrected in the next 30mins

Let me paint a picture for you .. this is how the pro recovery of the bimmer site took place....

* 3x guys in Auckland .. with Servers, Beer and skype...

* 1x in Christchurch, with remote connection, skype .. and of course: beer.

Results:

Josh taking a leak behind the rack...

Andrew giving me the glad eye... HOT!

Josh couldn't find the key to get into one of the servers .... apparently a screwdriver and adjustable pliars do the same job?

When in doubt .. apply more alcomohol...

Josh and Andrew reeeeeaally confused about where the keyboard is supposed to go...

Ollie making sure the beer gets consumed...

All up, I Must say .. It's one of the more fun recoverys I've performed!

Looks like you're back on track.

I'll have to add the 'non standard' sources again ... but for now, the youtubes etc work

Testing ...

waiting on cliff

Just FYI Ollie, I don't actively monitor these forums, i just look after the machine they are hosted on. (Don't get me wrong, my next car will be a bimmer, but I just have sooo many forums to keep up with ).

If you have an issue, either get Andrew or Josh to hit me up, or add me to ICQ/MSN

thought we nailed it .. obviously not .. give us monday to sort it.

Should be good now ... logs are telling me they're flowing now.

Unfortunately, some people will get a flood of emails from the last couple of days - sorry.

I've just tried uploading a file as part of the reply function but it wouldn't work. Gives a message about contacting the administrator. Any ideas?

Give it a whirl now - I've found a few permissions to tweak for images.

how long should it take. Click on bimmersport book mark and open the main page with all the new topics on it.Click the one you want and it then re-builds the page and the topic concerned gets to almost completed and stalls a few seconds.Completes the load up and opens the section concerned is this just my connection or normal. On a reasonable broadband connection. Clear the cookies etc also to avoid any jam ups that some have mentioned before.

Cheers Allan

I'm not sure what happening there?

Is this an issue that other seem to be having, or unique to Allan?

date has been updated/corrected - was 2 hours out

Yes.. bimmersport had moved ... again.

It's not my idea.... I'm just the monkey who does the grunt work

If you see any issues, let me know

Post should now show up ...

Haha!

Awww, josh ... we know ya love it!

love you cliff

by anal proxy of course

Ross, is that you??

Crikey, you guys go more off topic faster than a subaru into the ground!

Sorry guys/gals,

We had to shift host providers (you thought the last one was fast, this ones better ) and there was a slight malfunction with the DNS server transition (something out of our immediate control).

Things *should* have been resolved now (for bimmersport.co.nz at least).

Any probs, let me know.

Cliff

Server jockey.