The Great Stafford Forum Outage of 2014

[Jonah]

I sat at my computer clicking "refresh" until my iMac got annoyed with me...



Then I realised it wasn't working and got sad...



I sat there wondering what to do....



I decided I had better get some work done...



And then I thought I'd tweet Admin...



Admin said they would try and fix the problem...



But a bit later it still wasn't working...



Then just after lunch I tried again...

 

[Jonah]

And it WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I couldn't contain my excitement...



So now I'd like to give Admin a bug hug...



For fixing this great forum!

 

[wildwood]

Jesus christ - I've had to actually do some work today!

 

[That-Crazy-Rat-Lady]

I too was getting worried - I had visions of the apocalypse so went out to buy petrol, wine and cheese x

 

[John Marwood]

I now have 2,400 tins of soup in a lock up garage in Doxey

And a Russian language phrase book

 

[Lucy]

It showed me how bad internet addiction actually is

 

[Admin]

Hello? Is this thing on??

Oh thank God; we're all still here!



Does anyone have any valium?

 

[That-Crazy-Rat-Lady]

I love you admin

 

[joshua]

I missed you, promise you will never leave us again.

 

[tek-monkey]

Does anyone have any valium?

Will Tramadol do?

 

[joshua]

So what went wrong, did the hamsters escape from the wheel ?

 

[John Marwood]

Ex Hamster

 

[Gramaisc]

Sent to Siberia..

 

[That-Crazy-Rat-Lady]

Ex Hamster

You need to get rats - far more efficient...

 

[Gramaisc]

You need to get rats - far more efficient...

Any decent-sized aircraft will carry a rat-generator for emergencies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine

 

[proactive]

I expect Hop will be along in a while to tell us all how this could have been avoided. Speaking in tongues, obviously...

 

[Withnail]

Server error - please try again later.

 

[hop]

I expect Hop will be along in a while to tell us all how this could have been avoided. Speaking in tongues, obviously...

I have already said how most of the issues can be avoided in term of the data layer. Apart from my prior recommendations the server layer is based on php so I would looking to use a mongrel approach for load balancing the web servers.
I doubt Stafford forum could afford a CDN.
The data access could probably be massively tuned by using something similar to SqlDependancy offered in Ado.net.
I've used php over 10 years ago and thought perl was better. If I want to use a dynamic language today I would probably use clojure.

 

[John Marwood]

If I could say all that with a straight face I'd deffo pull some totty

 

[Gramaisc]

If I could say all that with a straight face I'd deffo pull some totty

Some of them like it, if you talk nerdy to them..