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Polverone
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Apologies for the downtime
I saw in my email today that the site was down. Both the web site and the SSH server were unresponsive. I was able to reboot the instance from my
hosting provider's management console. It seems to be working normally now. I'm not sure what caused the site to become unresponsive in the first
place.
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fusso
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What was the exact duration (starting -> end in h:m:s d/m/y) the site went down, in UTC?
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Polverone
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It looks like the last successful request before the site went down was at 27/May/2020:04:57:47 +0000, according to web server logs. The first
successful request following the restart was at 28/May/2020:17:38:38 +0000.
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wg48temp9
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Quote: Originally posted by Polverone  | | I saw in my email today that the site was down. Both the web site and the SSH server were unresponsive. I was able to reboot the instance from my
hosting provider's management console. It seems to be working normally now. I'm not sure what caused the site to become unresponsive in the first
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Thanks for your efforts Polverone. I was expecting to develop withdrawal symptoms had it continued LOL
I am wg48 but not on my usual pc hence the temp handle.
Thank goodness for Fleming and the fungi.
Old codger' lives matters, wear a mask and help save them.
Be aware of demagoguery, keep your frontal lobes fully engaged.
I don't know who invented mRNA vaccines but they should get a fancy medal and I hope they made a shed load of money from it.
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RedDwarf
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I couldn't believe how much I was missing being able to read the forum, was starting to go cold turkey!
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arkoma
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i WAS in withdrawal.
Thank You Polverone
"We believe the knowledge and cultural heritage of mankind should be accessible to all people around the world, regardless of their wealth, social
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Nonexistent
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Same here, glad I'm not the only one addicted to chemisty and not just certain chemicals.
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Ubya
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"panic attack" solved, thanks polverone!
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B(a)P
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Thanks for bringing it back online and for hosting this amazing community in the first place. I am embarrassed to admit how many times I checked to
see if it was back up :
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woelen
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Polverone, thanks again!
Also thanks for providing us with this platform having this great forum!
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fusso
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I actually wish you did the forum software switch while the site was down but never mind.
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Chemorg42
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Oh good!, the site is back up.
For me, it was strange, I could access the home screen (FAQ, Forum (http), Forum (https), etc), but could not move into any of the sections. Did
anyone else have this particular behaviour? Any ideas on its possible cause?
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word. (attributed to Niels Bohr)
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. (Richard Feynman)
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Ubya
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| Quote: Originally posted by Chemorg42 | Oh good!, the site is back up.
For me, it was strange, I could access the home screen (FAQ, Forum (http), Forum (https), etc), but could not move into any of the sections. Did
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same, but no one knows anything at the moment
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Lion850
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Great to see it is back up. Thanks a lot.
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fusso
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| Quote: Originally posted by Chemorg42 | Oh good!, the site is back up.
For me, it was strange, I could access the home screen (FAQ, Forum (http), Forum (https), etc), but could not move into any of the sections. Did
anyone else have this particular behaviour? Any ideas on its possible cause? |
Do you mean when SM was down or
after it went back up? I can't even access the homepage when it was down.
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Tsjerk
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| Quote: Originally posted by fusso | | Quote: Originally posted by Chemorg42 | Oh good!, the site is back up.
For me, it was strange, I could access the home screen (FAQ, Forum (http), Forum (https), etc), but could not move into any of the sections. Did
anyone else have this particular behaviour? Any ideas on its possible cause? |
Do you mean when SM was down or
after it went back up? I can't even access the homepage when it was down. |
I had the same, but not on a different computer, if you visit a stationary site often your browser saves it to reduce traffic, so the front page was
loaded from local.
Great it is up again! I had a bit of withdrawal as well.
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Draeger
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I'm glad the forum was back up. I was already getting scared the forum was taken down or something.
Collected elements:
Al, Cu, Ga, C (coal), S, Zn, Na
Collected compounds:
Inorganic:
NaOH; NaHCO3; MnCl2; MnCO3; CuSO4; FeSO4; aq. 30-33% HCl; aq. NaClO; aq. 9,5% ammonia; aq. 94-96% H2SO4; aq. 3% H2O2
Organic:
citric acid, sodium acetate, sodium citrate, petroleum, mineral oil
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Tsjerk
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What would happen when Polverone would be incapacitated for some reason? Is there a second person with the capacity to keep the forum running? And
does anyone here know who that person is?
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ELRIC
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Thanks boss. Hopefully all worries have been abated.
Except for the one above, which I myself have often wondered
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[Edited on 29-5-2020 by ELRIC]
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zwt2
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It might be worth making an official sciencemadness account on one of the major social media platforms, and sharing the login details with all active
forum staff, in order to report site outages and similar problems.
This would also allow for a coordinated response if there was a major site issue, and the site had to be restored from backups or something.
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karlos³
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I third that worry above.
I know of at least two boards which have been lost due to that, because the owner died without sharing the informations with anyone before.
Please Polverone, have a thought about that!
We don't want to loose this forum 
Not you either, but please take precautions.
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symboom
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I remember there was this post that had someone making SM clones for back up to a certain date to at least save all of the information and posts on
here to a set date.
Mabus was talking about if anyone could post a link to a SM Clones on discord.
Update here it is it was under fourm matters
Site back up
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=12051
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G-Coupled
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| Quote: Originally posted by Chemorg42 | Oh good!, the site is back up.
For me, it was strange, I could access the home screen (FAQ, Forum (http), Forum (https), etc), but could not move into any of the sections. Did
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That sounds like it's because of your browser caching web pages - hit Cntrl+F5 to do a refresh that doesn't pull from the cache to avoid this.
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Polverone
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There is a forum backup that anyone can download here: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=12...
I try to update it a few times a year. Anyone can download it to get archival access to all of the public forums. My fellow moderators have the
password so that they can recover the private forums too, along with all the attachments on posts in private forums.
Woelen has the technical skill that I believe he could restart the forum from a backup on a new web host if I were to suddenly vanish. I'm sure there
are many members here who could manage the same, even if they had to restart without the private forum contents.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine captures static content like the Library, LANL documents, and wiki entries:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200513132133/http://library.sc...
https://web.archive.org/web/20191016235746/http://library.sc...
https://web.archive.org/web/20170929094239/http://www.sciencemadness.org/smwiki/index.php/Glauber's_hydrochloric_acid_synthesis
It also captures a fair bit of the forum, but you wouldn't want to try to recreate the forum from their data.
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arkoma
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*panic attack*
"We believe the knowledge and cultural heritage of mankind should be accessible to all people around the world, regardless of their wealth, social
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