Cause of Downtime

Alex

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Earlier tonight (technically, last night), AllDeaf experienced an unexpected database error. The cause of this has to do with the upgrade of MySQL software (database program), currently version 4.0.14. It has nothing to do with the forum software (vBulletin).

Since vBulletin heavily utilizes MyISAM tables which has been changed and configured in the MySQL upgrade, it corrupted certain "posting" tables. I would hate to downgrade MySQL as that is known to fix the problem, but fixing and optimizing the tables within phpMyAdmin seemed to do the trick.

I've gotten over 500 emails in a matter of few hours (vB emails whenever there's a database problem), and I was sleeping then, until I got notice that AD was experiencing errors. Good thing it's fixed now and I can go and get some sleep. :)
 
ahh Alex -- that had explained why it went down -- thanks for ur explaination and clearing up the confusion on what may have happened

:thumb: u have done so WELL for AllDeaf! :D
 
Hmm....I didn't notice anything going wrong at the site. :P I reckon it's cos I'm in a different time zone, heheh! :lol:
Anyhow, I'm glad you got to get it fixed up. :thumb:
 
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