Obama Conspiracy Theories site down

ducktape · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:59 pm

Doc's site appears to be completely down again.

:cry:

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

Well the site got back up last night and ran for a while until this morning. It's down again, but apparently it's not just my site but a general problem with the cloud.

Sucks.

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

Reality Check · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:11 pm

I think it is a conspiracy. :lol:

ducktape · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:28 pm

Is it an Internet outage or is the server down?

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

Quote:

Hi Kevin,

I am sorry for the delay in our response and for the downtime. We have encountered some problems with the new disks on our Cloud Hosting and we are moving all servers to the old disks now.

I hope that within next one hour your site will be online. I will keep you posted.

--
Kind regards,
Andriy Loshkovskiy
L2 Support engineer
VPS.NET

Now you know all I know.

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

Quote:

Dear Customers,
As you may be aware there was a failure on the cloud hosting platform
earlier today. This appears to be linked to a filesystem issue on the
cloud storage. As such we have taken the decision to roll back to a
backup of the cloud hosting platform that is 2 days old to allow sites
to be restored.

** We aim to restore the full cloud platform, with current data,
within 12-24 hours **

As a temporary measure we have blocked incoming email to avoid any new
emails getting lost. Any pending emails will be stored temporarily on
backup email servers. Once the cloud platform is fully restored we
will allow these emails to flow into the restored service. Whilst we
do understand the importance of email we have taken this decision to
make sure no email is lost or left out of sync. All other functions
(website/control panels) are up and running.

We apologise for this outage, and are working as quickly as possible
to restore service.

Once this is restored we will be sending a full RFO (Reason for
Outage) to customers, including any credits that are due under the
SLA.

I have a backup of the database containing all the articles and comments as of the date of the move, but not since then. Unfortunately I do not have a backup of the data -- all the images that appeared in the articles. Unfortunately I too the expedient of speed over safety when switching sites. Losing the images would be a near disaster, I think.

At least I'm retired so I have time to work on it.

My temporary emergency email address is doc@drconspiracy.com. If you PM me at the Fogbow, just make sure that your profile is set up to receive PMs back. Some folks have PM'ed me here to which I have been unable to reply.

mimi · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:06 pm

DrConspiracy wrote:

Some folks have PM'ed me here to which I have been unable to reply.

Seems to be a lot of that going around.

I'm talking at you, TomTech.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:08 pm

Sorry I made light of your problems Doc. I know this must be frustrating. You went through a lot of work to move the blog.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:12 pm

mimi wrote:

DrConspiracy wrote:

Some folks have PM'ed me here to which I have been unable to reply.

Seems to be a lot of that going around.

I'm talking at you, TomTech.

TomTech PM'd me but wouldn't accept a PM back from me. I wonder what gives.

Best of luck DrConspiracy!

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

OK, I have a temporary web page up at ObamaConspiracy.org where you can check status at least. The hosting company says 12-24 hours before they have everything restored. I guess these "cloud servers" aren't as solid as they claim.

mimi · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:55 am

Quote:

Update: 4-Feb-2012 10:03 PM: I've gotten a backup of all the images and files from the old site. So even if all is trashed, I can recover to the point of the move. All articles since the move are on my hard drive. I hope "restore the full cloud platform, with current data" means the new stuff will be saved too.

When we finally do get up, I will be publishing my new article:
Arrogant Apuzzo attacks Atlanta ALJ

Looking forward to reading that, Doc.

burnburger · **Joined:** Mon May 16, 2011 11:52 pm **Posts:** 2

I am not sold on this "cloud". I thought the internet was a cloud, but eh. I wonder how they borked a filesystem...that is very hard to do unless they bought crappy cheap drives.

BillTheCat · **Joined:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:25 pm **Posts:** 1428

Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble Doc

Really enjoy your site and hope they get it worked out for you.

Tomtech · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:48 am

Secret as not to add too much off topic to the thread.
Off topic for Mimi and Sterngard:

DrC's site has been giving me a 404 error all evening.
Good luck Doc. Hope you can get the site back together soon.

Keith · **Joined:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:30 am **Posts:** 5

I'm on Firefox.

I just get a message that OCT is taking too long to respond. No funky codes are displayed.

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

I'm going to tweet status updates from now on. See DrConspiracy on Twitter.

The old status page stopped working the new status page is:

http:/obamaconspiracy.davnet.org

mimi · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:33 am

Doc's twitter timeline:

https://twitter.com/#!/DrConspiracy/

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

Status info now at

http://www.drconspiracy.com

Reality Check · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:42 am

You have Apuzzo's attention. He posted your status message in a comment preceded by this snark:

Quote:

I just found this at http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/

Obama Conspiracy Theories
What a mess!

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID ... 8823644518

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

It's rather surprising that Apuzzo would advertise an article that I wrote (and will publish) that is critical of him.

Fortunately, I took screen shots of his blog, so he can't erase what he said.

Still down. Status information still at Doctor Conspiracy.

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

Estimated back up at 2:30 am tonight.

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

mimi wrote:

Looking forward to reading that, Doc.

Since the site's been down, I've had some extra time on my hands, some of which I've invested in the Arrogant Apuzzo article.

It's a shame that Apuzzo didn't participate in the Atlanta case. It would have been much more interesting.

The one area of the article that I'm not 100% satisfied with is the ending. I've tried to come up with the best possible video to express the concept of "annoying." The French knight taunting King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was good, but it moves rather slowly. I have currently have an annoying song video which will do.

BTW, isn't the Super Bowl tonight??

DrConspiracy · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 465

OK. This is bizarre. I contacted a support manager at VPS.NET because I wasn't getting any solid information on when I should be back up. I wrote:

Quote:

I've been down almost 5 hours and I have no idea why, what you're doing to correct it, or when I can expect to have my service restored.

I finally got this response from management:

Quote:

Hi There
Thats great to hear! Do please let us know if there is anything else that we can help you with
--
Best Regards
Rus Foster
VPS.net Managing Director

Keith · **Joined:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:30 am **Posts:** 5

I just visited the temporary URL and it looks like Doc's site is back. He probably needs some domain name bit twiddling to happen before all our bookmarks work.

Let it be known that "gorefan" was the last post before the break. Its his/her 'fault'.

OK, not the last post before the break, just the last post before the backup.

Go easy on me folk. This is my first post on Foggy's camp noticeboard.

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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