The IRC is currently down, it was a very popular destinaction to our members to chill in and we still want to continue our work on it. We’re currently working hard on getting something up and running by next week. It will feature the same popular Mibbit chat client and other popular features.
This blog is the official information center of the Warez-BB.org community. You can find here all latest news about the technical issues the site may face, especially in case of downtime.
We had a short 2 hour downtime today caused by some network maintenance on our side. It was unannounced but it will help in the long run.
After being stable for the last few hours, we are now aiming for a full restoration of all of our services within 24 hours. This means Lilium’s downloads will be working again, The Scene Magazine downloads will work again and other services/features will be available again.
We hope that this downtime has not caused too much inconvenience. We’re open to all suggestions that may make our community a better place!
We’re back with most services operational, we do however still face a network link with limited bandwidth possibly due to the network problem. This is causing the lag which we aim to resolve within the next 24 hours.
We have had some serious downtime and it is due to a number of factors. Each are isolated problems that are causing this prolonged downtime.
First, our Images server went down due to some long awaited maintenance, it is currently back up along with our blog as well because our blog is hosted on the same server as our images server. Our images problem is now solved, we have our server ready to serve images and we also have our back up server ready to serve images as well. This issue did cause temporary lag though.
However, our biggest problem we’re facing is a problem with a network hub where our servers use to connect to the rest of the world. The culprit can be seen by running a trace route to our site or by running multiple pings. There you can see that there is a lot packet loss which ultimately leads to a very slow website. This network problem will not only affect us but many people in the Asia Pacific region.
Because the network problem is out of our control and out of our datacenter’s control, we do not have a timeframe available for our site to become fully operational again. Though, it should take no longer than a few days due to the huge public pressure this will have on the network company.
We will continue to use our blog as a center to dish out further information in the future. So please keep a keen eye for further updates ;)
Coolyou
This is a less than official post for our new search.
It has been in the making for a few months now and we’re all very pleased with the final results. It is currently running on our servers with very little RAM consumption and only a few % of CPU power. Not only have we increased our efficiency in running our search but we have also solved the number one problem our members dislike about WBB. We’re very pleased that we all can finally search without having to wait 10 minutes every hour.
Yesterday we had upgraded our search to use a new frontend, although it was not entirely written from scratch it did have a lot of significant changes to it. For example, one of the most requested features “View your topics” found it’s way into WBB :)
However, our new search was not fully rolled out yet, the main part of the search is still a work in progress as of the moment of this article. But this update would’ve allowed us to fix the bugs now than sooner.
One of the bugs was the search being disabled for a longer period than it is designed to so we’re currently working to fix it.
Coolyou
We have just been informed that the routing issues that occurred these last weeks have just been fixed up. Welcome back to all our Turkish friends that we have missed.
We have heard reports of a 7.8 Richter scale earthquake in the middle of China and we have reports that this earthquake has even been felt in HK. Despite this, there has been no disruption on our networks.
Our best wishes goes out to the victims there though.
We have been recently informed by a couple of Internet Service Providers that the routing issues to Asia-Pacific have been fixed up. Welcome back to the members who we missed.
A few of our members actually cannot access the board due to routing issues affecting the Asia-Pacific area with few sub-networks in Europe & North America. The known ISPs this problem occurs with are Comcast (US), Internet 2000 (US) and Turk Telecom (Turkey). Continue reading
