Downtime Today(5/13/17)

[tehelgee]

What happened is that the server's HD filled up on us(our current hosting plan has a rather small allotted disk space) at a time when alethiophile was away for a while. We're working on long term solutions for this.

 

[steamrick]

Glad to see you know what's going on.

I guess the only real solution is to get a bigger HDD?


edit: Posting's still wonky for me though and it seems this thread got double posted.

 

[Vox De Harlequin]

So I'm going to guess the problems may come from a little factoid I read recently on how you automatically rehost images posted on the forum.
On the one hand, that's nice because it prevents dead image links.
But on the other, that's gotta eat up a shit load of space.

 

[tehelgee]

So I'm going to guess the problems may come from a little factoid I read recently on how you automatically rehost images posted on the forum.
On the one hand, that's nice because it prevents dead image links.
But on the other, that's gotta eat up a shit load of space.

Click to shrink...

Nah, not images. Server was keeping a library of backups. Now the server retains a smaller number of them.

 

[steamrick]

Nah, not images. Server was keeping a library of backups. Now the server retains a smaller number of them.

Click to shrink...

That'll work, but it's a mid-term solution at best...

I'm pretty sure QQ is still growing membership and even if it wasn't, people are posting all the time. Storage space will run out again eventually and getting rid of all backups would be foolish.

 

[Walkir]

So I'm going to guess the problems may come from a little factoid I read recently on how you automatically rehost images posted on the forum.
On the one hand, that's nice because it prevents dead image links.
But on the other, that's gotta eat up a shit load of space.

Click to shrink...

Also really messes up the URLs...

 

[tehelgee]

That'll work, but it's a mid-term solution at best...

I'm pretty sure QQ is still growing membership and even if it wasn't, people are posting all the time. Storage space will run out again eventually and getting rid of all backups would be foolish.

Click to shrink...

Backups on the server are not the only backups. alethiophile downloads each backup and stores them on his machine too.

If it becomes necessary, we have some options in regards to upgrading our host server, don't worry.