need to backup the server and maybe do an upgrade in preparation for the TC/UC action next week. will take an hour or so.
BC server down time - 2008/05/09 - 3:00pm Australian EST . kwun... Thank you for informing us. george@chongwei... 2008/May/08 10:00pm PST = 2008/May/09 1:00pm MAS. .
Go for it.. ..another extra hour is okay, too. Question is, why an hour?? Heck, let's take the whole evening/afternoon off. It'll relieve you of doing the moderating. I think most, if not all, of BCers NEED to get away or even go out & play some baddy, anyway. Or finally do some work.. As a matter of fact, a few of these server maintenance/per month is not a bad idea at all...hmm..
is working hour........ shall be passing the time with no problem at all kwun, you may take your own sweet time to do whatever that need to be done.......
Working with rackets and shuttlecocks when the server is down . Hahaha... Yes, I will be with rackets and shuttlecocks on the Badminton courts for the next 8 hours after the server is down. .
I guess Kwun's anticipating the potential explosion the TC/UC might cause to the server. A good idea to prep ahead of time. I guess we've become so spoilt these days that we expect no lag time while on BC [thumbs up]
well, yeah. totally. just in case the extreme high traffic causes the server to overload and burn up in smoke, we will at least still have some data retained.
kwun's always thinking about you guys.. ...esp. you guys in the Asia region. Tomorrow (tonight, U.S. time), you guys will be out on your lunch break anyway, around 12 or 1 o'clock. By the time you guys come back from lunch, the server will be up and running again... ...i'm looking fw to a new record of the most users to this site; current record is 1,445, this yr.
^^That's correct ..^^ ...It's true, records are meant to be shattered... And are we expecting a record no. of PAWers in this TC & UC edition??....Oh wait, wrong guy...i think only Sandy is keeping track of that number...
This.. ...year's Thomas & Uber Cups will be a pretty good test for BC in preparation for the upcoming Olympics...First couple of dry runs will probably occur during the first couple days of competitions.
I hope the servers can manage the loads... but i dont think there will be any problem if it didnt go for upgrades.
okay...we are now done with server stuff. just curious kwun, but..did you only do a data backup, or did you take BC offline to also do software updates, ect.
just data backup tonight. software updates will have to come after the TC/UC. too risky to do upgrade right before a major tournament.
very true..we can't go missing our BC for a tourney. 10PST.....the forum time is set to central right...and you live in Cal...thats why. Kwun you are in SoCal or NorCal? I saw the pictures of your son at UBC.....yet i have never seen you there.