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GMC Forum _ PRACTICE ROOM _ Lessons / Start Page Error
Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Mar 22 2011, 08:55 AM
As you have probably noticed only http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/lick-of-the-day-v2/blues/, http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/chat/ and the http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/ works.
We are working on a fix and hope to have everything up and working very soon.
Posted by: loundzilla Mar 22 2011, 10:00 AM
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Mar 22 2011, 10:21 AM
Yes we have a corrupt database and working on restoring it from backup.
Posted by: loundzilla Mar 22 2011, 12:54 PM
I was hoping you would get the pun 
Its from the IT Crowd - Have you not seen it? If not why not! Its the best TV Show EVER !!!!
Posted by: purple hayes Mar 22 2011, 01:32 PM
Was it behind the woodshed smoking cigarettes?
Hope you get your problems resolved soon.
Posted by: loundzilla Mar 22 2011, 01:58 PM
I hope you hadn't left yourself open to SQL Injection
Posted by: purple hayes Mar 22 2011, 02:11 PM
One of my favorite xkcd comics.
http://xkcd.com/327/
Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Mar 22 2011, 02:51 PM
Ok this is turning into a nightmare thing. It's extremely frustrating as I cannot really do anything about this myself (except being really frustrated and angry).
I just spoke to Magnus - the engineer desperately working on this since this morning. The reason we haven't got the site up and running yet is because the huge databse backup we have got crashed his computer, he is now doing it from another - more powerful work station.
He estimated we will be up and running within the next hours...
My apologies for this! 
Posted by: Cingen Mar 22 2011, 03:15 PM
I just spoke to Magnus - the engineer desperately working on this since this morning. The reason we haven't got the site up and running yet is because the huge databse backup we have got crashed his computer, he is now doing it from another - more powerful work station.
He estimated we will be up and running within the next hours...
My apologies for this!
Shit happens, not your fault nor anyone elses:p I do hope it gets fixed soon though!
Don't pull out your hairs in frustration Kris
Posted by: loundzilla Mar 22 2011, 03:37 PM
http://xkcd.com/327/
Haha yeh i like that one.
Have you seen the picture of the car number plate that has a ;drop table....
I can't remember or find out exactly which one it was though !!!!
Posted by: Fran Mar 22 2011, 03:49 PM
I can see the knowledge base is back, but it seems to be missing yesterday's changes. No biggie, just letting you guys know in case it helps. I'll refrain from doing any further changes there until the situation is back to normal.
Take it easy guys. poop happens. Specially with computers 
Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Mar 22 2011, 05:21 PM
Phew we are now back!
Tomorrow morning ( sometime around 8 o clock in the morning CET) we will perform an urgent database upgrade to prevent this from happening again. This will result in yet aprox ~30 minutes of downtime.
In short our database (containing forum, knowledge base and lesson info) has grown too large to for its' current structure and therefore needs to be upgraded. The site crashed today when the daily backup was being made.
To compensate for lost practicing time we will add another day to everyone's account.
My apologies again for this!
Posted by: purple hayes Mar 22 2011, 06:01 PM
That's a generous offer. If anything, I practice more when GMC is down. Heck, if GMC went offline for a month, I'd probably make some real progress.
Glad you're getting the issue resolved.
Posted by: loundzilla Mar 22 2011, 06:20 PM
Tomorrow morning ( sometime around 8 o clock in the morning CET) we will perform an urgent database upgrade to prevent this from happening again. This will result in yet aprox ~30 minutes of downtime.
In short our database (containing forum, knowledge base and lesson info) has grown too large to for its' current structure and therefore needs to be upgraded. The site crashed today when the daily backup was being made.
To compensate for lost practicing time we will add another day to everyone's account.
My apologies again for this!
Using sql express with its 10gb limit?
Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Mar 22 2011, 06:24 PM
Ahh no we just forgot to try turning it off and on again
Posted by: Ben Higgins Mar 22 2011, 06:57 PM
Hehe
Yes, the classic modern human approach to trying to get something to work !! More time to cram in as many donuts as possible !
Posted by: thefireball Mar 23 2011, 01:22 AM
Would have never know I guess, since I was at college today.
Posted by: Todd Simpson Mar 23 2011, 11:22 PM
Looks like things have smoothed out Spiff! I think I missed the glitch. Things happen, seems to have been fairly minimal which is good The good news is that the site came back up!
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 31 2011, 11:12 AM
I missed this as well, cool
I hope these things won't happen again, we work seamlessly here, and often forgot that tremendous amount of work is being done to keep the site going 24/7.
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