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Scout Network....down again.

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Folanator

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Brawndo's got electrolytes...
I know we generally rip on other Buckeye website, and that is not the intent here. Scout has been down for going on the third day and they had a server crash last week as well. I looked for another thread but could not find one so MODS feel free to move/delete if I missed it.

For the life of me I cannot understand how a company (FOX) can be so inept.

First was the failed "upgrade" of their forums that resulted in mutiny.
Last week a server issue that resulted in the forums being down for a day.
Now, the entire forum network has been down since Sunday. That's three days. Let me repeat that...three freek'n days.

Again not ripping on the Ohio guys, personally I really like everything they bring to the table. For the kind of revenue those forums bring in, to have the servers with no backup and that unstable is unfathomable. It's not rocket science.

Egads....
 
the best part is they now have some message boards up and running, but they are only the free boards. so the people that actually fund them through subscriptions can't access those boards, but the free board ghetto trash is at least able to do their thing. well played scout.
 
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Fox doesn't own it any longer, though I forget the obscure name of the new company. I do agree that the fox sports next debacle was a legendary failure. Even if the logistics and access weren't a disaster, the design was beyond horrible.
 
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jwinslow said:
Personally I've been enjoying the rotation between planned system maintenance, system maintenance and cannot load splash screens. It's like a bad magic eight ball.
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No shit, that is funny stuff. Talk about shifting the blame. Found this on the Carolina forums. At least they are keeping their customers abreast of the clusterfuck...

Tuesday, 6am update: Scout has restored the forums. As a result of corrupted backups, the last 10 days of postings were not able to be recovered. Subscribers will be compensated for the lost time. To get more details, and read notes from both the IC Staff and Scout, click here.

Yea.....riiiiight LOL

7pm update: No end in sight. Latest word from Scout cited that "repeated attempts to restore the forums database cluster from backups have all failed." They said they are bringing in additional hardware to continue restoration efforts.

3:00pm update: We have no new information beyond the fact that the outage continues and Scout continues to try different processes to bring the forums back online. Since all prior ETAs from Scout that we're relayed have not been realized, we'll refrain from providing any more of them.

9:30am update: Scout just informed us that the situation is "at least two more hours" from being resolved.

Monday, 8am update: The forums were not restored overnight. We are awaiting a morning status update from Scout.

11:30pm update: Still down and still no new ETA of when they'll be back up. The origin of this outage is explained by Scout as a "routine configuration change to fix a slow-performing drive" that then caused various aspects of the system's stressed and obsolete datacenter to fail.

Scout management has provided this network-wide statement: "We apologize for the forums issues this past week. They arise from having to replace obsolete hardware that had not been updated under previous ownership. These updates had originally been planned for after NCAA basketball season, to minimize intrusiveness, but we obviously now will be accelerating this work. We will do whatever it takes to provide stability, speed and capacity, but will err on the side of getting things right for the long haul as opposed to a Band-Aid approach."

11pm update: Repeated attempts to fix the issue and reboot the system have obviously failed, as the forums are still down. Technical details are expected to be provided to us from Scout management shortly. We will pass the important details along as soon as we get them.

8pm update: The forums appeared to show signs of coming back online, but are clearly not operable at this point. We await an update from Scout.



6 pm update: The forums remain offline, and Scout now says they are still 2-3 hours from being fixed. We will continue to update you as we receive more information and we are actively monitoring the situation.

4pm update: Scout says the problem - and its solution - has been identified and the forums will need to be taken offline for about two hours in order to fix it. We have not been given any details about what specifically went wrong and what fix is required.

Sunday, 2pm update: An Inside Carolina staffer reported to us that he was unable to make a post on the forums. We have confirmed this problem and reported it to Scout's tech support team.



We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your continued patience while it's being resolved.

- The IC Staff
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For a company that refused to update their software from pre millennium standards, I fully believe that they just coasted on the same server hardware and now that is failing, as all drives do eventually without regular maintenance, backups and replacements.
 
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Who runs their own servers anymore? Storage is cheaper than hardware.

The thing that is BS, is Bill and Nevada have done a great job building that client base and now they look like idiots for something that is beyond their control.

This is verging on comical.
 
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Bucknut24 said:
:lol:

Nevada can bring some good info, but man he gets defensive if you disagree with him, gets annoying when he pulls out the, i know more than you card
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he's gotten worse about it recently as well. i disagreed with something and he hit me with a week long read-only ban. I forwarded the screenshot of the post nevada deemed ban worthy to mark rea and in about 10 minutes i was back on the board. i mean, there are tons of idiots on that board that need that sort of response due to the sheer ignorance of what they post. but that attitude has become pervasive with him anymore.
 
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