Explanation as to why the forum was down...

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Posted by Lola and Harry's Mom on August 04, 1999 at 21:01:16:

I was just checking our the tree frog forum and found this post:

Posted by webmaster on August 03, 1999 at 15:02:28:

Welcome back to the forum. I'm sorry for the inconvenience
that this caused. I want to explain what happened.

On Wednesday I left for the IHS Symposium in San Diego.
On Friday evening while touring the San Diego Zoo
I was informed by another tour participant that he had
just received a call saying that the site had crashed.

After several hours of investigation I was able to determine
the cause of the problem. kingsnake.com's hard disk had filled
to capacity and was unable to recreate the index file for 70+ forums
and 6 classified sections as posts were made. In other words
anywhere someone made a post it literally blew up the forums
index file. I am in the process of restoring the forums 1 by 1
today. I will use old index's from various backups. Any posts
made are still there and when I get the new search engine built
you will be able to access those posts. I will also be adding
another hard drive this week to prevent this from occuring again.

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Re: Explanation as to why the forum was down... M.Eguro 8/05/99 (0)
I told ya we overloaded the thing....(np) Lorry 8/05/99 (0)

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: I was just checking our the tree frog forum and found this post: : : Posted by webmaster on August 03, 1999 at 15:02:28: : Welcome back to the forum. I'm sorry for the inconvenience : that this caused. I want to explain what happened. : On Wednesday I left for the IHS Symposium in San Diego. : On Friday evening while touring the San Diego Zoo : I was informed by another tour participant that he had : just received a call saying that the site had crashed. : After several hours of investigation I was able to determine : the cause of the problem. kingsnake.com's hard disk had filled : to capacity and was unable to recreate the index file for 70+ forums : and 6 classified sections as posts were made. In other words : anywhere someone made a post it literally blew up the forums : index file. I am in the process of restoring the forums 1 by 1 : today. I will use old index's from various backups. Any posts : made are still there and when I get the new search engine built : you will be able to access those posts. I will also be adding : another hard drive this week to prevent this from occuring again.

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