Filter Forge still down?

I was getting a message that Filter Forge was down yesterday (again) and now I'm getting "Error 404 – Page Not Found
The page you are trying to access does not exist. Possibly it has been moved or deleted." for the filters page...

This is a little bit of a long episode... almost a week so far.

Thank you for that answer... few times have I seen anyone give more that "we are working on it" as an answer, leaving the customer/forumite to wonder what is actually going on.
A more descriptive answer as such lets people know you are not just sitting ignoring the problem and gives them an idea of the extent of the troubles and challenge you face.
Good luck and I hope things run smoother now.

Heh,heh... rotten corpse living of it's last remaining customer... GoZombie.com was a terrible web host anyway.

PS... the Filter page seems to be working now.

Thanks.

On the bright side, we finally have a legitimate excuse to move to a more modern kind of hosting and shed some server-side software cruft along the way

Hosting Provider, look at RackSpace if you have not already obtained a new provider.
TB

glad your sort of back up, boy Spaceray is going to be pissed that his complaint of wiped posts has been wiped hey wait a minute my post about 50 hu points has been wiped as well, now thats just wrong ........ hope everything settle down for you guys soon

Hi angelize

I had new filters that I have submitted last week and lost because of the FF problem. So I have reupload it again last wesnesday and lost it once again. And I will not reupload it soon. I think that the best is to wait until the all FF website will be fixed. By just looking what the forum looks like, sure that the problem is not yet resolved entirely. But you do as you want. It was just my advice.

Looks like the site is getting back to normal around here...
Getting more unregistered visitors as well...Over 200 now still over 100...

You know SpaceRay, for some of those posts you put loads of love and attention to, you should probably keep those separately available on a blog or some web-outlet solution. I honestly feel some of your posts deserve and belong in a environment where they don't get lost so easily as a public forum. At the point that you're begging for guarantee over a public forum where some of us just tred forth, caring little about what rant we have in the recent-posts section, you're better off considering and investing in finding a place where your love for each post and interest is better valued.

And I'm also not saying the forums don't value things here. I don't mean it like that. I mean that if you're going to feel troubled about losing posts on a public forum, you should consider the alternative. If you put all the love, care, and personality into something, don't put it on places where you're begging for reliability.

Just on that note, forums in general were never designed to handle tutorials, large lists, loads of imagery. It handles text very well. It's a system for question and answer, commentary and response. I mean we kinda break the bounds a bit, but it's a pretty rigid system. Come to think of it, it's been pretty much the same since the 80s or the 90s.

And just so you know... I really don't mean any form of spite. I'm kinda saying because you seem extremely troubled over losing a fair number of posts. I figured when the forums went down you'd be the one getting frustrated and really personal over it. I mildly share that frustration, but it was more because I was bored and not feeling productive.

Lastly, I'm a huge forum nut. You have no idea how many forums I'm on. I love forums.

How about the Filter Library? is it ported over to the new server yet?

And I have to say the whole FF site in general now loads much faster.

angelize, the filter library is still on the old server, but we'll begin relocating it as soon as we can. We aren't doing that now because we're still working on the web server: for example, the wiki is still down, there are glitches in the new user registration pipeline, there's excess disk IO activity on the server we can't yet pinpoint, etc etc.

As for the website loading faster, yes, we noticed that too -- and this is despite the excess IO activity! This speedup was completely unexpected. I guess this is because our new server hardware uses a RAID10 as a disk subsystem, instead of just one physical HDD.

A strip of mirrors, SpaceRay. Hence 1+0 (mirror+strip) or just written as 10. It's got a very high tolerance to failure and delivers excellent performance. So the chance of "sad things" happening to the forums are rarer of very obvious reasons, unless otherwise due to "Acts of God" which you typically can't do anything about with little compensation.

It sounded like you needed more confirmation to keep yourself floating.

I assume the requests to buy upgrades are in the queue?

@McGyver: Lol! I can guess what site you are talking about, the ones who have their own definition of "soon"

Checked e-mail ... no instructions.

But I did get an ad for upgrades

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Checked e-mail ... no instructions.

I've double-checked: we've received and processed your request. Please check your spam folder just in case.

It's working better now, much better. Still some issues with but hey, we all need out weekly fix of 3D content, even though the dealer got a bad breath now!