JS52785 there are ways to donate found on BGG already. I know it's a little tricky to find on the site (there's no big "Donate Here" button on the main site) but you can donate already. It's how alot of users have Patron Badges. In fact that's the easiest way to find the donate page; search Patron Badges and you should get to it pretty quickly. Site obviously isn't up now to give you a direct link. If you donate $15 or more you get that year's patron badge. Still never been sure if that is in one donation or retroactively over a 12 month period. Also for every dollar you donate you'll receive 1 Geek Gold :)
On Saturday, 31 March 2012 10:10:46 UTC+8, JS52785 wrote: > > 1. What kind of monetary donation would you require to upgrade to > hardware which would allow this? Or at least allow it to remain up > without maintenance so frequently? > > 2. Where/How can donations even be made? > > 3. There better be no April Fools downtime because there was some just > the other night and now looking like all today and tomorrow. Downtime > on April Fools just to have downtime/play a prank would seem a little > excessive and cruel at this point. > > On Mar 30, 8:25 pm, dakarp <[email protected]> wrote: > > BGG runs on a shoestring budget, and can't afford the sort of hardware > > that would allow for continuous service during maintenance. > > > > Today there are several things going on. First, one of our MongoDB > > (database) servers, sackson, is being replaced with a new system. The > > goal was to transfer the database to the new server AND pull the old > > system from the rack on the same trip. (BGG has only one rack of > > servers, and it is full--any time we install a new server, we have to > > remove an old one.) In order to do so, we needed to make a full backup > > of the database while the site is down--if it were up, we would be > > constantly writing to the database. That full backup alone takes a > > long time--a couple of hours, I believe. So we shut down the system > > and started the backup before Aldie headed to the server room. > > > > Another reason for the trip was that one of the hard drives had failed > > on our main file server. In order to replace that, we again made a > > full backup before shutting it down. That backup took longer than > > expected. > > > > An additional purpose of the trip was to increase the hard drive > > capacity in three of our systems. This meant swapping out about 20 > > hard drives, and this also apparently did not go as smoothly as we > > would like. > > > > Finally, two additional servers were installed. > > > > As you can see, there was a lot going on in this maintenance trip. If > > we could afford to pay someone to be in charge of our hardware, and if > > we could afford more redundancy in our servers, we could certainly do > > our maintenance with less downtime. Considering our resources, > > though, I think we do OK. > > > > -Daniel > > > > On Mar 30, 6:45 pm, Tiago R² <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Same question here. It's been down for almost 5 hours now. > > > Any explanation for the downtime? I work with webdevelopment, and > > > regular maintenance rarely takes more than an hour, in my experience. > > > > > On 30 mar, 18:38, crsluggo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone have a time frame for when BGG will be up again? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/dBUYLmtscCIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
