Site upgrade

[Andy Clough]

And

for us

 

[scene]

Clare Newsome:

All together now...

Which one are you Clare?

 

[Andrew Everard]

It's OK, chaps, don't think anyone can see the site now...

 

[bernasmeister]

Clare Newsome:

All together now...

hum... vinyl edition...

 

[Andrew Everard]

No truth in rumours JD has popped out for a sneaky preapocalyptic ciggie, then...?

 

[bernasmeister]

Ok, so the site is still on... Confess: publicity stunt?

 

[Andy Clough]

Apparently JD's hiding in the car park...

 

[Andrew Everard]

If only, bernasmeister...

 

[Andy Clough]

bernasmeister:Ok, so the site is still on... Confess: publicity stunt?

Certainly not.

 

[chebby]

Looks the same!

Seamless.

Well done

 

[vinod_david]

Congrats, team! - worth the wait.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Ummm the reason it looks the same is that after 24 hours of struggling with everything from nodes to clouds to servers halfway across the world, we've had to take the decision to roll back to where we were this time yesterday and do some more work before we implement the upgrade.

Sorry for the outage, but we're as disappointed as you - however, we want to get it right, so took the decision to abort the launch until we're totally confident all is in order.

 

[chebby]

Oops!

Has JD fallen on his sword yet? (Or is he gibbering quietly in the corner?)

 

[Andy Clough]

Yes, apologies for being offline for so long but we were working through the night to try and make it all work, but sadly our server company in Houston struggled to cope.

As Andrew says, we're investigating the cause of the problem and will re-launch when we're sure everything's functioning as it should. Thanks for your patience.

 

[AlmaataKZ]

Working old is always better than not working new.

 

[Andrew Everard]

chebby:Has JD fallen on his sword yet? (Or is he gibbering quietly in the corner?)

Hopefully he'll be getting some sleep sometime soon - circs entirely beyond his/our control, it seems.

 

[scene]

To be fair, the site was up at least twice for about thirty seconds, to my knowledge, last night and this morning - even got as far as trying to log in before it tanked...

I'm sure the post mortem is already underway (but one should remember that these are supposed to only happen after the concerned party is dead...) and that it will work next time.

Anyway - glad to have you back, I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms.

 

[Andrew Everard]

AlmaataKZ:Working old is always better than not working new.

Our thinking precisely.

 

[Tom Moreno]

C'est la vie. These things happen with IT rollouts, that's why you always keep the old systems ready to fall back on JIC. I got a brief glimpse of the new forum for a quick minute there and it looks promising lads.

 

[John Duncan]

(tap tap)

Is this thing on?

 

[chebby]

Still. I had a nice morning in the bookshop with a couple of coffees and a couple of hours spent usefully studying/revising and then popped up to the local Audio-T and had a great hour listening to the B&W MM-1s. (More on that later but suffice to say... wow!)

 

[Andrew Everard]

scene:To be fair, the site was up at least twice for about thirty seconds, to my knowledge, last night and this morning

Indeed, and then Houston had a problem...

 

[scene]

Andy Clough:
Yes, apologies for being offline for so long but we were working through the night to try and make it all work, but sadly our server company in Houston struggled to cope.

Houston, we have a problem...

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

 

[The_Lhc]

Yes, just by sheer coincidence one of the brief periods of uptime happened to be when I was iprodding an ipad at the local apple store at lunchtime. Looked ok, as far as I could tell.

 

[scene]

Andrew Everard:
scene:To be fair, the site was up at least twice for about thirty seconds, to my knowledge, last night and this morning

Indeed, and then Houston had a problem...

jinx(ish)