You realize boardgames are a niche hobby, right? From all the interviews that I've heard and read, BGG makes just enough money to run and to hire a bare bones crew. That's it!
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:30:20 PM UTC-5, superflat3000 wrote: > > BGG isn't a Mom & Pop operation anymore and hasn't been for years. It's > "Aw, shucks, folks" attitude doesn't reflect the reality of its use by the > users or owners. > From IT to the Admins (apologies), BGG needs to grow out of the buddy > system to something resembling a social network in the teens of the 21st > Century. > The only reason this downtime is acceptable is there's really nowhere else > to go. > That's part of the problem. If there was somewhere else to go, this > wouldn't happen. > > Am I angry? You bet. I can't think of anywhere else on the internet that > this would be acceptable. > > > On Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:14:50 PM UTC-5, Scott Alden wrote: > >> Hey Y'all, I wanted to give an update as we're about to head back over >> to the ISP and do some more work. >> >> Last night we rebuilt the RAID system on our main file server (due to >> a failed hard drive) - even though we have a full backup on another >> server, I wanted to have another regular backup before rebuilding the >> RAID. This took a bit longer than expected because the way rsync >> calculates checksums. However, this wasn't the problem that kept me >> up till 6am. >> >> In addition to replacing a failed drive on the main file server, we >> wanted to finally retire one of our oldest servers (Sackson). Sackson >> runs a database called MongoDB (www.mongodb.org). It's been growing >> over time, and we intended to migrate it to one of our newer machines. >> The process of backing up and importing a mongo database takes a long >> time due to the sheer size of the data and the indices that this >> database uses. >> >> During the setup of mongo on a new server, I started noticing the OS >> would "stall" several times when writing to disk. It turns out that a >> combination of using a virtual server, with the particular hard drive >> configuration on this machine doesn't seem to work properly - it takes >> far too long to write the data to disk (this is a problem to solve for >> a different time). Around 4am I decided to abandon the new server and >> go back to a non-virtualized server. >> >> We're going back in today and reinstalling a different OS and moving >> things around. >> >> I really apologize for the delay - nobody wants the site back up more >> than me. >> >> -- >> Aldie >> >> -- 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/-/TZ8XJw5sGKoJ. 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.
