365 days Uptime

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365 days Uptime

Post by CraigRat » 21 March 12 6:22 pm

Just a little humble brag from us:

We have recently passed 365 days of continuous uptime, a benchmark we are quite proud of.

Apart from the odd slowdown every now and then, the uptime for the website itself site would be in the 99.999% range, a performance metric that people pay good money to have, and you get this for FREE*

During this time we have pushed many, many GCA updates, server patches and upgrades without causing too much grief to anyone but ourselves.

We will continue to try and bring you the most feature rich caching website in the world** at this level for as long as humanly possible!


*Thanks to all that have donated in the past.
** fact, not hyperbole.

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by FelixII » 21 March 12 6:35 pm

=D> =D> Congratulations Guys.

We all appreciate your hard work behind the scenes! :lol:

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by Laighside Legends » 21 March 12 6:53 pm

The question has to be asked... What went wrong on 21/3/2011?
But well done anyway! :mrgreen:
If only gc.com could go for even 30 days...

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by caughtatwork » 21 March 12 7:06 pm

Nothing went wrong. It was planned downtime to move parts of the database from ISAM to InnoDB to stop table locking.
http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopi ... =1&t=15840

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by rogerw3 » 21 March 12 7:17 pm

=D> =D> =D>
Congratulations guys, this has to be the best Geocaching site anywhere, in fact many professional websites do not come close to what you are able to achieve. As a heavy user of this site I am very grateful for all your hard work.
=D> =D> =D>

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by quiet1_au » 21 March 12 7:53 pm

Predicts you're not using Windows - Linux? :mrgreen:

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by Damo. » 21 March 12 7:54 pm

Thanks for the huge amount of work you guys do! =D>
It is much appreciated.

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by CraigRat » 21 March 12 7:55 pm

caughtatwork wrote:Nothing went wrong. It was planned downtime to move parts of the database from ISAM to InnoDB to stop table locking.
http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopi ... =1&t=15840
A memorable few hours, especially the logs table showing 0 rows for a few heart stopping minutes.

Let's not do that again :lol:

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by quiet1_au » 21 March 12 8:07 pm

But is your server clock an hour behind?... :-k


:-$

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by Laighside Legends » 21 March 12 9:00 pm

quiet1_au wrote:But is your server clock an hour behind?... :-k


:-$
Daylight saving does strange things to the forums...

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by caughtatwork » 21 March 12 9:21 pm

quiet1_au wrote:But is your server clock an hour behind?... :-k


:-$
The forum does not auto correct for DST.
You need to set it manually as not all places go to DST equally.

Control Panel
Board Preferences
Set DST at the bottom.

You can see the server time and your local time at the bottom of every GCA page.
http://geocaching.com.au/

Mine says:
Server Time: 21st March 2012 9:21 PM | Local Time: 21st March 2012 9:21 PM

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by caughtatwork » 21 March 12 9:21 pm

CraigRat wrote:
caughtatwork wrote:Nothing went wrong. It was planned downtime to move parts of the database from ISAM to InnoDB to stop table locking.
http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopi ... =1&t=15840
A memorable few hours, especially the logs table showing 0 rows for a few heart stopping minutes.

Let's not do that again :lol:
+1

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by caughtatwork » 21 March 12 9:24 pm

quiet1_au wrote:Predicts you're not using Windows - Linux? :mrgreen:
Correct. Ubuntu (some version I won't tell you what) :-)
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?sit ... ing.com.au
Not exactly a secret though :-$

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by SamCarter » 21 March 12 9:43 pm

Awesome work, and hugely appreciated. =D> =D> =D>

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Re: 365 days Uptime

Post by fluffyfish » 21 March 12 11:53 pm

Gratz!

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