When it rains, it pours!

2008/11/28 at 1:13 am Lazeez 27 comments

Well, it does. When it rains it seems to come from all sides.

Last night, a network outage 10 days after the last one.

Tonight, a catastrophic hardware failure in the database servers’ raid at 8:15 pm on the 27th. We’re scrambling to find and configure a replacement. It will definitely take a while and some data has been lost.

Sorry for the inconvenience folks. We’re doing all we can to get things up and running again.

Update 1:55 am: Well, we’re piling it on. On top of the hardware problems we’re having, the replacement server raid that we got turned out to be faulty AND Rogers (the backbone provider) is doing a network maintenance just like last night, without any warning. The tech working at the data center can’t communicate with the outside world to make sure that we get new software to install of the hardware (which is dead at the moment too).

Update 6:30 am: Things are coming along well. We’ve managed to get the database for the storiesonline.net domain going. It’s fairly operational. However, we lost everything that happened from 4:00 am EST on the 26th, so roughly 48 hours of activities have been lost (the latest back up was corrupted, the previous one worked.)

The secure connections over https (for log in and for payments) are not working. We haven’t figured it out yet. The admin pages aren’t fully working yet. So be patient about updates.

Not everything is as it should be, but it’s definitely better than being offline completely.

Update 28th, 2:25 pm: well, the site is almost back to normal, but the submission processing is broken. It needs some work. It will take until the evening to get it done and start processing submissions again.

Your patience is appreciated.

Storiesonline none

#1 | Written by Rob on 2008/11/28.

Holy sh$%! You poor guy! As much as it may seem someone or something is out to get you…have courage as you have one of the most entertaining sites out there.

Not only am I sorry for you, but for all of us who love you and your author’s reads. Hope it happens better for you soons!

Rob
#2 | Written by Mark on 2008/11/28.

OMG …. I’m picturing you walking in front of a herd of black cats, passing under the worlds tallest ladder and accidently smashing a container full of mirrors.

Good luck
#3 | Written by Rick Cross on 2008/11/28.

Look at the bright side, you’re getting all of next years failures this year. So next year will be a lot smoother.

Now if I can just shake off these withdrawal symptoms.
#4 | Written by garion on 2008/11/28.

as of 306 am cst homepage is up but server is still out im going to bed good night luieese

G.
#5 | Written by Scribbler on 2008/11/28.

SOL seems to be back up.

Lazeez, Thank You.

Many don’t know the work it takes to recover from catastrophic failures. Or the stress.

If it’s all good, now, go get some sleep.

-Scribbler
#6 | Written by Orblover on 2008/11/28.

Lazeez,

Thanks for all your hard work. I know what a bitch it is to loose drives and can really appreciate what you’re going through. Get some much needed rest when things settle down.

Many thanks!

Orb
#7 | Written by G.O. Haynes on 2008/11/28.

Darn: well at least when you are back up and running I’ll be able to read more than one chapter a day.

Will you also be extending our subscriptions the same amount of days your are off line?

G.O.
#8 | Written by mike on 2008/11/28.

We probably don’t say it enough – thanks for all the efforts in keeping this fine site in shape, even when Murphy kicks in
#9 | Written by Rob on 2008/11/28.

Yer up !!!???? Now don’t breath for a few days…..

Hope youu don’t have to spend anymore months like this again. Seriously, consider the work your service provider has caused you…
#10 | Written by Bill the Cat on 2008/11/28.

Hah… Withdrawal? wha… we have free legal injection sites here… so I’m going down to stand in line… until the updated pages get back online.

Isn’t it nice to see the CRTC protecting competition… Rogers buys out everybody now there’s only 2 networks… and they change policies without notification… but it’s ok because they are regulated (wink wink nudge nudge).
#11 | Written by Chris M on 2008/11/28.

16:05 GMT (11:05 EST) and https is still down. I managed to log in by manually editing the url to use http, and now such things that require log in work, although sometimes it’s taking a hard refesh for it to do so.
#12 | Written by Andrew Haines on 2008/11/28.

That’s Rogers for you…

Could not handle email… farmed it off to Yahoo.

Can not handle a VoD system… still waiting for results.

Think they can provide a land line phone service?

Good luck with the system, anxiously waiting for it to come back!!
#13 | Written by Grant on 2008/11/28.

As of 2:34 EST today major portions of the site still do not work The Updates page is blank, and links to stories from the Authors pages come up blank as well.

Sorry your site is so screwed up but, as someone else already said, perhaps with all this bad luck out of the way next year will be more auspicious for you!
#14 | Written by DJ on 2008/11/28.

As BJohn sez in Sorcerer, “Just ‘cause we’re not paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get us.” Looks like you need to add another set of belt and suspenders. Good luck…
#15 | Written by Skip on 2008/11/28.

I don’t know if it will help, but I am sure that Chapter 14 of Scipio’s Christy and Chap 38 of Dreamweaver by Shadowofmoonlight were posted on the 26th of 27th. They are amont the missing
#16 | Written by Gary on 2008/11/28.

You have your hands full and I now understand the reason that the site seems to be new and messed up.

You have nu understanding and sympathy.
#17 | Written by John Panyon on 2008/11/28.

In my job at Verizon, I have to repair servers for various functions. I was “on-call” this holiday, and empathize strongly with your frustrations, and perspirations. On one occasion, I had to replace a server drive array after normal business hours. I started at 5:30 pm, worked until 1:30 am, and started up again at 8:30 am. I was lucky, in that I had factory support and known good replacement parts.

So, my hat is off to you for a fine job, done well, under trying circumstances. * * * * *
#18 | Written by Rob on 2008/11/29.

Again, hats off to you. Hard realize how addicted to your site until it’s gone. God, I need a life. Love the site but need to spend more time outside, at the gym, with the family…etc!!!

I also realize how economical your site is. I’ve saved close to $800.00 in the cost of buying books and magazines this year! Your premium fee is very much the good deal.

Rob
#19 | Written by BarBar on 2008/11/29.

I’d like to add my thanks to the others. You run an excellent site and sometimes you go above and beyond to keep it running. The recent trials are a good example of that.

Hang in there.

BarBar
#20 | Written by wageslave on 2008/11/29.

Firstly – thanks for bringing it up so swiftly given the nature of the problems…

However is it down again? (20:25 Saturday in England) Sorry to be a pain…
#21 | Written by darkhand on 2008/11/29.

I think the website is down again.
#22 | Written by bilious_canker on 2008/11/29.

Am I just being paranoid, or are you down again? I was on around 11:00 am est, but I can’t get any response now. Is it time to get another host site?

b.c.
#23 | Written by wageslave on 2008/11/29.

Back up again, cheers.
#24 | Written by Arty on 2008/11/30.

This may seem to be some sort of Schadenfreude on my part in pointing this out, but it seems that Literotica is having troubles of its own. So don’t feel like you’re alone.

Well done in the face of seemingly insurmountable problems.

Arty
#25 | Written by steveh11 on 2008/12/01.

Have to add my voice to the chorus of “Thank You”! In common with some others I hadn’t realised just how addicted to SOL I’d become…

Steve.
#26 | Written by walt on 2009/03/25.

what when down on site?
#27 | Written by walt on 2009/03/25.

what wrong with site?it was working early this morning?

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