Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Service interruption

my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

»	Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE » Operations » Film Handlers' Forum » Service interruption (Page 1)

This topic comprises 3 pages: 1 2 3

Author

Topic: Service interruption

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 09-12-2001 01:38 PM

Sorry for the interruption. We're back.

| IP: Logged

Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-12-2001 02:09 PM

If you had used a Mac, it never would have happened.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

What happened?

| IP: Logged

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 09-12-2001 02:47 PM

Our Mac server crashed. What a P.O.S.!!!

Actually the phone company was hooking up new lines in the area and proceeded to chop our T1. This is only the 3rd time in 6 months that this has happened. (The "Film-Tech down" page you were seeing last night and this morning was coming from Scott's computer in his apartment.)

| IP: Logged

Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-12-2001 04:18 PM

The Phone Company Strikes again!

| IP: Logged

Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 09-12-2001 07:02 PM

I'm glad it's back up. I was starting to have withdrawal symptoms.

------------------
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

| IP: Logged

Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 09-12-2001 08:10 PM

I thought I saw Boston Baked Beans on that page.

| IP: Logged

Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 09-13-2001 04:54 PM

Turns out the damn Apple Mac OS X server crashed on the evening of 9-12-01. I told Brad to stay away from Macs, but noooooooo. Now he will take me seriously when I say that Macs have trouble even turning on, much less running a web site in which dozens of people visit each month.

| IP: Logged

Don Sneed
Master Film Handler

Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 09-13-2001 06:11 PM

Whooooaaaa Weeeeee....I'm doing the happy dance, glad to see back up & running, I'm in Japan, can't speak the language, can't read Japanese, no American TV, only thing to look for in life over here is Film-Tech !! Hummmmm maybe I need a new life !! Thanks guys

| IP: Logged

Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 09-13-2001 06:18 PM

Ok! That has about done it. I am with Evans, with the exception that I can not stand the withdrawal pains. What a week!

Ouch! It hurts a lot. Enough! I need a drink! Maybe 5 or more. No Film-Tech?
God forbid......Thank God you are back. I will even be nice to

| IP: Logged

Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 09-13-2001 07:07 PM

Doing a little bit more research, it appears that it was the extensive amount of jokes from Bob Maar that caused the server's motherboard to get fried. We are now running off of Brad's desktop PC (e-mail me if you want the password to hack into it) with all of the old data.

| IP: Logged

Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-13-2001 07:25 PM

I think it might have been more that everybody pounding on their keyboards and desks while laughing sent shockwaves back through the wires and disconnected the T1.

I had to stop reading Bob's jokes because the sides of my hands were getting sore.

| IP: Logged

Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 09-13-2001 08:58 PM

This is a good time, Brad, for you to stop having Joe Redifer do your phone service work for you.

I'm glad you are back too. After what happened Tuesday, I'm glad we are all here.

Bruce

| IP: Logged

Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 09-13-2001 09:33 PM

Film-Tech isn't the only site that has been having trouble. Ever since the New York/Washington tragedy on Friday, many sites and services have become problematic. Just this afternoon, even my little Huntsville-Decatur Theatre Information site was having trouble loading. The problem wasn't with my ISP, but with Network Solutions with whom I registered my hsvmovies.com domain. If I used the physical URL, the site popped right up, but hsvmovies.com would take a long time to jump over, or would show a "Not found" error.

The Sep. 11 tragedy has put tremendous strain on the internet and is causing many side effects (delays, load failures, loss of services) here and there. I'm being very patient with all internet-related sites and such that I utilize from day to day, knowing that there will be occasional delays or failures. Putting up with these is nothing compared to what rescue workers, families of missing people, and standed travelers have been going through. On a normal day before Sep. 11, if Film-Tech didn't load, I probably would have gotten more impatient about it, but the past few days, it was like "Film-Tech didn't come up. Oh well, I guess I'll check the news pages for further developments on New York." A national tragedy certainly puts things in perspective.

God Bless All!

Evans

------------------
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

| IP: Logged

Steve Scott
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1300
From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 09-13-2001 11:26 PM

I had the same problem, not only last night, but the night of the 11th, too. When I tried to access every major website, the URL couldn't be found. Yet when I had tried it earlier on my other computor, I could reach every page just fine!

| IP: Logged

Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-13-2001 11:45 PM

Yeah - Even when FT got back on line, I still got Scott's page saying
it was still down. Well, thanks to Ken layton's recommendation to purge the cache, I got back on. Must have been a rottin' cookie maybe? Hell, I don't know.

Evans, me too.

Brad, what the hell is a T1 line? Josh asked me the same question, and I didn't have an intellegient answer for him.

Paul

| IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 3 pages: 1 2 3

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.