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Socoder -> Site & Server -> Something Broke?

Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 03:24
rockford
Tried to click on the forum post for Home Run Solitaire and came up with this - Linkage
Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 03:24
rockford
Nope. That's not right. It brought up an error message - black screen, white text. Dunno.
Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 03:37
Jayenkai
Is it still doing it?
Might’ve just been the site doing its daily backup..

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Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 03:55
Jayenkai
Checked into the stats as much as I can, and there seems to be a few timed-out requests for "=61733" around about the time that the big database backup was happening.

There's not an awful lot I can do about that, I'm afraid. The "cron - Backup the database" thing takes about 45 seconds to complete, during which time any database requests fail horrendously.

It's a ludicrous amount of time, and was certainly a lot quicker on the old GoDaddy server. (About the only thing that was quicker!!)
I could, of course, disable the daily database backup. I'm fairly sure Zen must do decent backups service of their own. But after the abysmally crap backup-restore that GoDaddy gave us, I've opted to ensure I have complete control over all the backups.. Just in case!!!

(GoDaddy didn't even bother to backup the SQL.. What the fuck is the point of that!?!? ... And I was ACTUALLY PAYING EXTRA for the Backup service!!!!!)

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Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 07:17
rockford
No, you're probably right Jay. I maybe just accessed the site at exactly the time it was backing up. I should have screen-shotted the message, as I can't remember what it said now.

It wasn't a long wait before getting access again, so no real concerns. Just thought I'd report it anyway.
Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 07:26
GfK
Can't you set the cron job to run at 4am or something when probably nobody would be using the site anyway?
Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 07:31
rockford
Jay will be using it. Jay is a machine and doesn't sleep. But yeah, I thought that too. But perhaps it can't be set up like that?
Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 07:34
Jayenkai
I've got it set up to trigger only once I've visited the site 3 times, in the morning.
This means that I get a chance to halt it, if there's been a giant hack or something, which might corrupt the backup.

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