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RCT2.com is still down, perhaps the longest sustained outage in our history, after weeks of intermittent downtime.

In the past week the site has never been up long enough to make backups. The last one we have is from 7th August.

At the moment it looks as though the server has completely crashed.

So if we have to restore, there will be approximately a week's worth of topics and posts missing.

As soon as we have the site back up, the forums will be closed while we discuss the future with our hosts and staff. It's likely we will be moving the site to a new host.

.... And the point of this thread was?

Warning everyone that the site is down.

he's telling everyone that rct2.com is having problems with the server and there switching the host

Well, alot of people from rct2.com also look here (including me) or vice versa. So RCTHelp was saying that RCT2.com is down and that they are trying to solve it as soon as possible... I'll be waiting for it, I was just about to advertise my park Well, maybe NE is my victim if RCT2.com is down Ah well, good luck with it RCTHelp and the whole rct2.com staff...

Black_Dragon

.... And the point of this thread was?

I should have thought it was fairly obvious.

Best of luck with this, Dave. Any amount of downtime to change hosts is worth it in this instance.

A Two-Step Way to Fix Your Problem:

1. Move RCT2.com to another host, like F4U.

2. Convert to forums to vBulletin.

2. Convert to forums to vBulletin.

There's nothing wrong with the currect board software; none of the problems that are occuring at RCT2.com lately have been caused by this software, but rather the host. Personally, I think that Invision Power Board is more reliable than vBulletin. They're moving to another host within a few days I believe.

A Two-Step Way to Fix Your Problem:

1. Move RCT2.com to another host, like F4U.

2. Convert to forums to vBulletin.

You sure do have all the answers.

Invision > vBulletion. What will converting their forums accomplish?

Disney Freak, that was incredibly worthless. Next time, don't post.

Invision > vBulletion.

Well, there sure are a lot of people who might disagree

Just listen to the Systems Administrator of TN.

Having used both vB2 and vB3, vB3 is by far more stable and much more easier to use. In addition, I noticed server loads actually drop (an indication of less SQL queries) when I switched to vB3 back in December.

In addition, support among other vBulletin users is much more widespread, and it's also easy to build around or even hack vBulletin. Many major sites have chosen vBulletin over Invision (Atari, Consumption Junction, SomethingAwful, GreekChat, DevShed, among thousands of others).

For support, the average turnaround time on support issues is less than 30 minutes by e-mail (which actually is very good), I get personalized support, and they never have given me the runaround. Plus, it doesn't feel like I'm getting a boxed product, nor do they sell it as such (like Invision does).

EDIT: I just saw their upgrade notes from IPB 1.3 to IPB 2.0 PF2, and I just laughed at their note about sites with larger databases (over 100mb). TN had a 1500mb DB at the time of the upgrade, and I had absolutely no problem upgrading from vB2 to vB3 Beta 7 (at the time). The actual vB upgrade took about 45 mins altogether, I felt confident in using a beta on TN, which is rarity for me.

^ Well good for TN.

This has nothing to do with TN.

Regardless, hosting issues cannot be resolved by converting forums to a different software.

Yeah, and too bad ThrillNetwork sucks.

Yeah, and too bad ThrillNetwork sucks.

They have an upload service!

Amazing that a thread about rct2.com being down is starting to turn into "this site is better" thread

The point was, on another RCT-related site, in an advertising forum, to advertise RCT2.com's problems. Without our own site, or mail, there is no other way we can let the RCT community know what's happening.

The problems are not board related (what do they use here?) they are hardware/network/MySQL/mail related. I suspect that another of the sites on the same server is just a 'spam machine' and it's overloading MySQL, mail and network.

At the same time, the host's tech support team seem to have gone on holiday. Together as far as I can tell.

For those that are vaguely interested, we've now got backups made ready for a server move.

NE uses Invision, too.

The point was, on another RCT-related site, in an advertising forum, to advertise RCT2.com's problems. Without our own site, or mail, there is no other way we can let the RCT community know what's happening.

The problems are not board related (what do they use here?) they are hardware/network/MySQL/mail related. I suspect that another of the sites on the same server is just a 'spam machine' and it's overloading MySQL, mail and network.

At the same time, the host's tech support team seem to have gone on holiday. Together as far as I can tell. 

For those that are vaguely interested, we've now got backups made ready for a server move.

Hire MachChunk as your one-man tech crew. He'll fix everything up nice and good for ya.

^ I would wonder if the boards would ever be up then. Let alone being able to use them if they were online....