Topic: Is some idiot just going around crashing random Castlevania boards?

[Super Waffle]

Or what's going on at the Anti-Chapel?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I don't know!
No problems here, thus far.  O_o;

[Highwind Dragoon]

No, It was some problem with the backup or something. 

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I worry about those.
I did a backup of here just a few days ago, before upgrading SMF.
I'm still new at this Forum Admin stuff (like, now that the forum is more under CVForum Admin control instead of IGN/Gamespy/Forumplanet).

[Successor The Cruel]

The reason is kind of complicated, but I'll try to explain it.  Forums work because they're hooked up to databases. From a technical standpoint, the database is a vitally important facet of the forum. It's where all the posts, member information, topics, private messages, etc, are stored.  

We have our website hosted at Point A.

We had our forum and database hosted at Point B, a place totally unrelated to Point A.

Our website at Point A uses something called a Content Management System, which is hooked up to the same database at Point B (you don't need a database for a website, but we use one).  Apparently, the hosts at Point B won't let us hook our database up to an outside website – Point A.  

Therefore, the website went down because it could no longer connect to the database.  Since the hosts at Point B wouldn't allow us to do what we wanted, we picked up our database and put it somewhere else that would (another web hosting service).  

When the forum was down, we were moving our database, doing a reinstall of the forum software, and repairing a few things.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Ah, I understand.  We were down during our move to the new server and one of the slowdowns was server database setup.  We had to wait for the host to set us up with the SQL Database stuff.

[uzo]

We had our forum and database hosted at Point B, a place totally unrelated to Point A.

You realize that's a horrible idea, right?

[Successor The Cruel]

We were down during our move to the new server and one of the slowdowns was server database setup.  We had to wait for the host to set us up with the SQL Database stuff.

Heh, it's good to see you got all that sorted out. I know moving to different servers is not a fun process, and it never goes quite as smoothly as it should. Well, not for me. I still have one or two niggling bugs to work out; nothing drastic, though. It's always good to turn a down into an up and make the place a little better than it was before somehow.

[Belmont Stakes]

Ok I am that idiot.


  jk