SOTAwatch Planned Maintenance 6th March 2015

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Hi everybody,

From 2200 utc today, Friday 6th March 2015, essential maintenance is planned for the servers hosting Sotawatch, & the SOTA website.

This maintenance may result in the above sites being unavailable for a short time. This possible outage is not expected to last more than 2 hours, but should be considerably less.

This reflector will not be affected.

Thank you for your patience.

Mark G0VOF obo SOTA MT

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I think there may be some maintenance taking place on the database todayā€¦ When I look at a Summits list such as G/NP I havenā€™t worked any! Anyone else affected?

73 Phil

PS I havenā€™t activated any summits either according to the database!
Tried logging out and back in to no effectā€¦ Database Manager MM0FMF Andy is on a Scottish hill at present sending Morseā€¦

73 Phil

PPS Every SOTA worked is a new one today!! (Time to stop saying ā€œThank you for the new one!ā€)

73 Phil

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I cannot access the database, at the present time.
As the maintenance was scheduled for 6/03/15 this may be a different issue

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Hi all,

The planned maintenance on Friday went fine & was completed within about 20 minutes.

There is an un-related issue with the database today which the MT are aware of.

Apologies for any inconvenience, I will update you when I have more info.

73 Mark G0VOF

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Yep no can enter me chasers. oh well :hushed:
At least the new spots still coming through OK :smiley:

Just one of those things

Karl

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Many thanks for the information Mark. Sorry to hear we have an issue. Itā€™s all work for those at the coal faceā€¦ or on the summit when they get home. Not what you want after an activationā€¦

73 Phil

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Maybe the essential maintenance need essential maintenance
Sunday AM. 12:45z cant get into the Database from Va USA
Will wait and try later.
Thanks Dow
W4DOW

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Canā€™t connect from the UK this morning either.

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Guys, its a waste of time posting ā€œme tooā€, the only person who can do anything about it is on a summit, until he gets back home we are all in the same boat!

Brian

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Itā€™s fixed itself Brian - the gremlins are at work!

73 Phil

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All working here now.

Jimmy M0HGY

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Normal service has been resumed :grinning:

Another load of Sota contacts up loaded :stuck_out_tongue:

Karl

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Hi all again,

It appears the database outage earlier was due to a problem at the host side of things, so not something we have done to ā€œbreakā€ it.

Everything should be working as normal now, but if you are experiencing any problems, feel free to post them here.

Thanks & 73,

Mark G0VOF

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I was taking Brianā€™s advice and had stopped posting ā€˜Me tooā€™ messagesā€¦

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Just for info, we have the SOTA services spread across several data centres/providers.

  • The reflector (this site) runs in the cloud. Who knows where it is right now!

  • SOTAwatch & the SOTA web site (sota.org.uk) runs on a Linux server which I think is in datacentre in London.

  • The database (webserver and DB engine) are hosted on Windows in a different datacentre that is also in London.

  • The SOTA cluster runs on a Linux server in Iceland.

All of the above are either fully or partially funded from merchandise sales and your donations.

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I have, in the last couple of days, ordered some goodies so I hope that will help with the costs in some small way.

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It does and is much appreciated.

Barry GM4TOE

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How long does it normally take to get an order sent? Iā€™m not agitating, I just need to know when to watch out for the postie bearing a parcel. :wink: