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ok what happened here?
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| Philby |
ok
has there been some kind of failure on a server or something? because last night the roll call threads were sticky, and a stack of posts have somehow been deleted. any ideas what happened? and no, im not imagining things because others have noticed :p |
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| Tsunami One |
| i think the gremlins have eaten a few posts. |
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| bassaholix |
gremlins... maybe... cause this byte mark is bloody itchy...
wait we talking about the same thing?
LOL |
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| DJ Dowlz |
| When web servers run out of space, they start deleting the newest posts to make more space. I think that is what has happened. |
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| PointyDC |
| Wouldn't they delete the old ones?... how strange. |
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| DJ Dowlz |
| quote: | Originally posted by PointyDC
Wouldn't they delete the old ones?... how strange. |
Nup, it deletes the newest ones. Essentially because it can't write them onto the server. Trust me, my college flatmate owns and runs http://www.avsim.com/projectairbus/ which is an abosolutely enormous forum (just about every single post has images too) and one day his server ran out of space and it started deleting every thread that people posted in.
Fortunately, like all good webmeisters, he backs up his site every second day. |
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| PointyDC |
| Images dont mean tho cos they're all hosted off-site. If the new posts are the ones to be deleted, how come we're seeing each others posts and the hundred others that are popping up every hour? |
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| webmeister |
Obviously these posts aren't being deleted because there is enough space on the server...
Remember last night the forum was done for 6+ hours? I'd say swamper was putting in a new harddrive and configuring it or something.... |
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| escee |
my vote is magik fairies
since its about as good as anyone elses. |
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| webmeister |
lol
nobody has accused me of deleting a whole bunch of posts?? :wtf: :sadgreen: |
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