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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Deja vu!
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
The Gravity Rush movie teaser news was so great that it couldn't stand the Neogaf servers.
Unknown Soldier
Member
GAF is sure down a lot recently
killatopak
Member
evilore probably shut it down to play some Armored Core.
Represent.
Banned
Next time I hack this place its not coming back
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Yes, there is… the link is on the site.
We are all on our way to the debrief
Just an unavoidable outage because of datacentre relocation.
Just an unavoidable outage because of datacentre relocation.
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Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
CloudFlare has custom error pages (customise pages based on response codes) that can be set up to appear whenever the site goes down or is unreachable.
A site statuspage would also be pretty cool too (something like Atlassian Statuspage or Freshstatus). Just set up an API status page that displays JSON keypair values component:status and then have a python script that scans that page for the component statuses, and then updates the public statuspage components accordingly.
A site statuspage would also be pretty cool too (something like Atlassian Statuspage or Freshstatus). Just set up an API status page that displays JSON keypair values component:status and then have a python script that scans that page for the component statuses, and then updates the public statuspage components accordingly.
Patrick S.
Banned
Why would he ever do that?
This site is his life achievement, and he refused to sell it for $7M in the past.
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Fuz
Banned
Patrick S.
Banned
Nah.
Peggies
Gold Member
BlackTron
Member
Not saying he would abandon the site but really?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Apparently, you have yet to see
EviLore
's hand-made giant novelty-sized replica of Bob Ross made entirely of his own leg hairs. Now that's impressive.
West Texas CEO
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
BlackTron
Member
Perhaps GAFs users would feel flattered if their life accomplishment was a game forum, but the owner thinks differently
Patrick S.
Banned
Hmmm, ok. Shaking Obama's hand it is!
Putonahappyface
Member
EviLore
please can
Patrick S.
and
Fuz
get a month or two ban instead of a permanent ban? I'm sure they regret pushing there luck and would apologise given the chance. It's a shame to see long term members disappear.
AlteredForms
Banned
I'm with the motion to bring back
Fuz
once he's learned his lesson. Long time members should receive some affection for spending much of their lives here.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
We are all on our way to the debrief
Just an unavoidable outage because of datacentre relocation.
Sucks too because it happening during Gamescom.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
At least it wasn’t caused by someone tripping over the power cord.
Pejo
Member
I'm no psychology expert but it does seem like they were both just joking. I'd also like to cordially request a re-evaluation of the perms. I realize that this might have been a bad time to joke about things with the stress caused by the recent downtime, but that feels a bit severe.I'm with the motion to bring back
-Zelda-
Banned
I do not know either of them, but I will also like to request review for this situation. I hope I can stick around as long as they have.
Aaron Olive
Member
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Why not set up a temp one pager with some info and redirect to it? Going offline like that is not the best look.
Topher
Identifies as young
The data center was being relocated. There was nothing online to put a temp page on.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
You can always set up a temp page and have your domain relocate to it, can you?
Topher
Identifies as young
Yeah, you would have to setup an external site and modify the DNS to point to the new IP. But even then it would take time for DNS change to replicate. Probably not worth the hassle.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
I don't know man, I'm using AWS and this is something that can be done with few clicks in Route 53, I wouldn't call it a 'hassle'.
NeoGAF is a product. It sells ads and even sells premium subscription in form of Gold. I think this it the bare minimum that you should do when going offline for so long.
Maybe it's just me.
Topher
Identifies as young
My apps are run in Azure so downtime isn't a thing unless I'm pushing a new container and even then it is a matter of seconds to restart the app with the new image. This sounds like a traditional physical server setup though. A bit more involved just to put a downtime message. I get what you are saying though.
Tams
Member
Honestly, as much as I joke about being addicted to here, at most a cumulative 24 hours of down time not even once a year, for something that is not critical to anyone is not an issue.
As for Fuz and Patrick S.; it is a shame to see them gone, their comments didn't come across as jokes to me. And they chose the wrong person at the wrong time to annoy.
Celcius
°Temp. member
What did they do?
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Tell that to people who subscribed to Gold the day GAF went down. It's not about SLAs, because let's be honest, there are none, but about principle. But whatever, no point in discussing it further.
Check the entire thread and you'll know.
Putonahappyface
Member
Tams
Member
Why? Did they get charged but not receive Gold despite contacting the admins? If so, that's the first I've heard of it.
Other than that my point still stands. If the downtime was measured in a week or more a year, sure I'd see good reason for being pissed off. It's not though, is it.
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