Sorry about the downtime for the past - a bit of unscheduled maintenance had to be done, I broke MySQL and ended up upgrading to a newer version, along with a new operating system kernel, it was a bit touch and go and one point but the site pulled through and is out of danger

I freaked out a little but. I didn't know how to act, there is never down time on AoS.

fyrebyrd wrote:I didn't know how to act, there is never down time on AoS.

maybe its just because im always on, but i notice a little bit every now and again. usually just 10-20 mins at most, never more than an hour IIRC. so i wasnt too worried.

so does this upgrade mean any noticeable changes for us? any new functions available?

cheers

~ Tim

Not yet, but it should help site stability. It's a newer version of MySQL, and a whole heap of operating system file and library updates. The MySQL changes alone should improve the database performance.

fyrebyrd, you had it easy - I was sat screaming at the monitor as apt was informing me that the linux kernel was being removed. Luckily there's a last ditch "are you sure?" to which is rapidly hit N. I got the new updates in place, click Restart in KDE and it died. I still had SSH so I was able to issue a shutdown command to reboot, when it came back up I could then install MySQL and everything came back up smoothly.

So you were one click away from AoS suicide... I'm glad I'm not you...

So this would make us one of those suicide sites the media are on a witch hunt for
I was happily having a pint, totally blasé as to how close to the skin of my teeth all my valuable posts came to lemmingitus.(with a little push from spack )
I hope the upgrade provides you with a lot of usefull bits and bobs (you can now use those newer bits of software you were talking about right?) or at least is a bit of a labour saver safety and maintenece wise (have you got it so that you can mod threads on your mobile yet? )
Carry on all the good work Spack.