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Forums Down -- UPDATE 5/13/2011


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Sorry for the SQL ERROR and the forums being down the last day or so. I finally got my customer support folks to fix this and am trying to learn what they did so I can resurrect it myself next time.

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Sorry for the intermittent connectivity. It seemed to be a high customer load drawing network resources. I've increased the number of connections - we'll see if this fixes it long-term.

In the future, you can always communicate via the baseops email or the baseops facebook page as well during forum blackouts.

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The forums are back up and running after the fourth consecutive outage.

We have isolated the problem to the search function in the forums - unfortunately, due to the nature of military aviation-related searches, I have had to allow three-character searches (for strings such as "UPT" and "U-28", etc.) thus the server can get bogged down when consective and/or multiple simultaneous searches are being performed.

So, to combat this problem, I have changed the default search to a Google Site Search -- it searches the same forum posts, but uses outside resources and presents the results in a Google Search-like interface. You still have the option of performing a traditional IPB-Forums-style search (displaying most recent posts, number of replies, etc.) by clicking on the little drop-down tab to the right of the search box (top-right of page) and selecting "Forums" as the search method.

I am trying to have additional software workarounds installed to bring even more functionality and efficiency to the search feature - but this may take some time...

v/r

BASEOPS

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As of this morning, the View New Content button doesn't seem to work. It states that there is no new content, but when I check the forums, I can see plenty of new posts. Anyone else having similiar issues?

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As of this morning, the View New Content button doesn't seem to work. It states that there is no new content, but when I check the forums, I can see plenty of new posts. Anyone else having similiar issues?

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At least it isn't working when I try accessing from my phone.

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Sorry folks - the problem we've been having originates with the search function (non-Google search) that, as I just found out, also is employed by the NEW CONTENT link. I'll fix this temporarily (which may result in another crash tomorrow morning...)

But, we are working on a long term fix to this issue - I've had to call in several other guys for help. Bottom line: we are attempting to install a server-sided fix that will allow the search to run efficiently AND not crash the server. More tomorrow...

Thanks for your patience!

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