Oh I'm sure we could get the downtime "lower" with more money... I won't turn it down :) http://boardgamegeek.com/support
On April 1st, we added 5 new servers to the rack (which was a disaster - 2 full days of downtime as I recall), and last weekend we added 4 more (down for about 5 hours). Tonight was needed (5 hours) because I was migrating over some older VMs to the new machines - I don't know of anyway to do that without taking down the site. Maybe toss another 10 random hours here and there... That's about 68 hours of downtime in 7 months - approximately 98.6% uptime. Obviously I would love to avoid it completely, but we have a lot more moving parts than many websites out there and we do it with a limited budget and one IT person (me). We aren't a static webpage/forums site. Every single thing is dynamically generated and cached out. I'll diagram out what kind of things we use to run the site at some point to show people how things work here. If it wasn't for that disaster in April - we'd have nearly 99.6% uptime... just to put it in perspective. Sorry for the inconvenience. Have fun on the site now! It's back up. -- Scott On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:20 AM, NuMystic <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott, is a shortage of donations the bottleneck that leads to BGG being > down so often? > > Please note I am NOT complaining and this is an earnest inquiry. > > BGG is an unbelievably rich free resource that I'd be immensely appreciative > of > even if it had 10x more downtime. > > I'm just wondering because I've been active in a number of other online > communities > over the years both bigger and smaller and BGG seems to spend more > time offline than any of the others. > > Of course it's still only a tiny fraction of the time and not an enormous > inconvenience at all, I'm just curious as to why it seems to > be a bigger issue here than elsewhere. > > On Saturday, August 4, 2012 3:08:46 AM UTC-4, Scott Alden wrote: >> >> I'm still working on some backup systems - things taking longer than >> expected as usual. >> >> Thanks for being patient. >> >> -- >> Scott > > -- > 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/-/0rm-H7DJKSwJ. > > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. 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.
