I told ya we overloaded the thing....(np)

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Posted by Lorry on August 05, 1999 at 08:53:52:

In Reply to: Explanation as to why the forum was down... 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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: : 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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