Another RPM Revival~

[VixyNyan]

Hm, where do I start?

For the past couple of days, the website has had a ton of CPU Exceeded Errors infested all over the place. This recent one was a major killer.

It turned out that the database for our site was inaccessible for many hours, and it strained the servers, and one or two database table for the forum got corrupt. It forced our host to shut down RPM completely, but one email reply later, it got half-fixed. The website and Oekaki is still running just fine.

The forum database is still saved and intact, but to make the RPM forum run in super-speed again, an ultimatum had to be decided on. Until my partner DZ can come up with a way to repair the corrupt data for the backed up forum database, the sad news is coming...

We started a clean new forum! D:

Since we still kept the past forum database intact, I will offer something for you all. You will be able to ask for specific messages that you have posted on the past forum, and I will be able to bring it back somehow, one post at a time. A "Request Topic" will be made on this new forum, where you can ask what posts that you want to see again, so that your precious data isn't completely lost. I'm kind and generous, that's my job.

Anyway, wait for an announcement if the past forum can be revived or not. Either way, we will bring back "every" important topic or post that we made on the past forum (including news posts) and make sure that things goes back to normal.

Oh, since we're trying to cut down on CPU power, the Art Gallery script will be gone, but as a replacement, we will bring all the artworks we had and put them up on a regular RPM web page instead. It will cut on the CPU power dramatically that way.

I hope I covered all the topics, but remind me if there's anything else that needs to be mentioned.

Welcome to the new forum!

[Sky Child]

It's good to be back, isn't it?

Though, this one wasn't as bad as the last one. Weren't we offline for like a month then?

[VixyNyan]

Yea, it felt like that. It was because we had to move from one server to another. o.o

[Sky Child]

Is that temp board we were using still out there? I don't have the URL for it anymore but I figure it may be.

[megatamx]

Good to be back!

[Satoryu]

i am pissed. i hope the clean slate schpeal isn't true. i know damn well what happened here, and i do not want to see it again.

and i pray DZ can recover the old forum. i hate starting from scratch.

[Sky Child]

i hate starting from scratch.

Oh, that's a lie and you know it~


Seriously though forum restoration would be nice.

[Nekomata]

i am pissed. i hope the clean slate schpeal isn't true. i know damn well what happened here, and i do not want to see it again.

and i pray DZ can recover the old forum. i hate starting from scratch.

think of it as a heavily screwed up singlesegment

[Lunar Knight Zeke]

i am pissed. i hope the clean slate schpeal isn't true. i know damn well what happened here, and i do not want to see it again.

and i pray DZ can recover the old forum. i hate starting from scratch.

A fresh start is always nice now and then. Although I do have to admit that this was rather inconvenient.

[CephiYumi]

yay fresh start!~

That, and *wave* ^^;

[VixyNyan]

think of it as a heavily screwed up single segment

Just try again until you nail it~

[Klavier Gavin]

Glad to be back. Just sucks that I had to re-register.

[Rad Lionheart]

Yay for starting over! I mean, it sucks.
But it also feels so good at the same time.
So fresh, so new feeling.
Clean, and fast, and effective.
Until it's clogged with [parasitic bomb] again and we do it all over again.

I recently formatted my hard drive, so I know the feeling of fresh start.

[Rockmon]

i am pissed. i hope the clean slate schpeal isn't true. i know damn well what happened here, and i do not want to see it again.

and i pray DZ can recover the old forum. i hate starting from scratch.

someone [tornado fang]'d around with something they shouldn't have and that in turn [tornado fang]'d up the site?

[Satoryu]

someone [tornado fang]'d around with something they shouldn't have?

it's more like a sabotage.

[Rockmon]

who? BTW, I think php-bb has a really simple backup/restore function should we get a case of dejamoo.

[Sky Child]

Yay for starting over! I mean, it sucks.
But it also feels so good at the same time.
So fresh, so new feeling.
Clean, and fast, and effective.
Until it's clogged with [parasitic bomb] again and we do it all over again.

I recently formatted my hard drive, so I know the feeling of fresh start.

That's the way I felt when I got my new computer and couldn't find my flash drives for like a week. I only quoted this post because your avatar made me yell WHAT THE DUCK.

who?

Now if we knew that we wouldn't be in this here mess.

[Satoryu]

who? BTW, I think php-bb has a really simple backup/restore function should we get a case of dejamoo.

uncertain. though there are a few suspects i have in mind. one kidded around about how one would go about doing to RPM what just happened.

kinda like how OJ wrote that book that said how he would've done it if he did it.

[Turian]

uncertain. though there are a few suspects i have in mind. one kidded around about how one would go about doing to RPM what just happened.

kinda like how OJ wrote that book that said how he would've done it if he did it.

Those people suck.

[Protoman Blues]

yay fresh start!~

I'm with Hitomi on this one!  LoL, I mean Nekomata. 

I actually found this fun.  It was nice to have a night or two off from RPM and such.  And now, older topics can be new again, and I can have fun getting my post count OVER 9,000! 

Also, please please please do NOT make accusations and assumptions on the causes of this.  What's done is done. 

[Lunar Knight Zeke]

I'm with Hitomi on this one!  LoL, I mean Nekomata. 

I actually found this fun.  It was nice to have a night or two off from RPM and such.  And now, older topics can be new again, and I can have fun getting my post count OVER 9,000! 

Also, please please please do NOT make accusations and assumptions on the causes of this.  What's done is done. 

Agreed, I don't think we should make a big deal out this. [parasitic bomb] happens, no need to get upset about it.

[Rad Lionheart]

What the duck indeed.
Well over at Ducksoup the avatars must be of Rubber ducky shape, my previous one was a Geddy Lee head copy/pasted onto a rubber ducky body.
So I decided to make one for myself, a Centaur Man head copy/pasted onto a ducky body, coloured the right colours, and added a little detail in the front.
I could have done better, but I was getting used to Photoshop CS4 (Awesome sauce, it is.) and was a bit rusty using my mouse to colour.

[Ramzal]

<Vixy> The "CPU Exceeded Errors" were wrong, so I HELPED the host! But I do think it was right about ONE THING! ---- This forum needs to be reset....

I kinda welcome the reseting. Less redundant threads? But back to putting sprite thread and writing threads up I suppose. *gets a cracking whip to be used on Zan to get timelines back up*

[Akamaru]

I am back and will control the forums as the 1st ever puppy leader!

On a side note, clean slate. Who could ask for more?

[The Blind Archer]

Well, ain't that a thorn in the side?  I'm used to seeing the boards I frequent have some server issues and such once in a while, but I don't think I've had to re-register before.  Anyway, it's good to see everything's up and running again.