alpha117 51 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Hi All We (AVSIM staff)have just been informed by Tom that AVSIM site will be down for some time due to hardware failure. Once the new hardware id installed then the site will be back up. Time frame is not known at this stage Just thought I would let everyone know. I'll keep everyone upto date Thanks Clive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha117 51 Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 didn't think that was the correct place.....thanks for the move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted January 28, 2014 Aerosoft Share Posted January 28, 2014 Hope they do not get into problems for the support forums they host. I'll offer our assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha117 51 Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks Mathijs Are you going to contact Tom? Clive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Almaraz 81 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I was worried about AVSIM, thanks for the news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Chief Pilot 829 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I was worried about AVSIM, thanks for the news +1/+1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladderBoy 0 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks for the update I was really wanting some UK paints for a photo session today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrjs 22 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 btw, Avsim Forum + Main Page are down, library seems to work....+ http://library.avsim.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Checkursix 3 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Hmm. Thanks for that. I was wondering if it was the usual slowness as of late or something worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladderBoy 0 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 btw, Avsim Forum + Main Page are down, library seems to work....+ http://library.avsim.net/ Thank you! I didn't even try going direct. Assumed it was down too. Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Portier 5 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Hope they do not get into problems for the support forums they host. I'll offer our assistance. Hello, When you talk to offer your support, this would eventually house the support forums? PMDG, MCE, ORBX ....and so on ? Seriously it would be a good thing including if it was permanently ! IMO of course. Kind Regards, Richard Portier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Chief Pilot 829 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 AVSIM is live again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha117 51 Posted January 29, 2014 Author Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yep, sure is Thanks Clive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Halmich 8 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 AVSIM down again since 17:00 Zulu March 05-14. Been a rough spell for Tom lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanB2 5 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 The only reason I care that they're down is because they host commercial support forums. Still down at 1400z on Mar 6th. Best regards, Robin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Almaraz 81 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Does anyone know what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srcooke 422 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Posted by Tom Allensworth: "Folks, We have had a hard drive fail. It happens that it is the principle (boot / system drive) for the forums. We are offline until we can get new hardware and get someone in there to fix it. It could be a while. This is not your normal hard drive. It is a RAID array and will require that we replace ALL six disks on that array. Please pass the word out to all the web sites you visit please. I will post a notice on FACEBOOK." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrjs 22 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thanks for the information. One could say "who cares, just wait" - however due to the commercial forums (or fora?) that are attached this is a real pitty... I wish companies like PMDG, FS2Crew.... would open their own forum, that would reduce the workload on the avsim server significantly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Chief Pilot 829 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 You can reach FS2Crew via mail and PMDG via their support desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrjs 22 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 You can reach FS2Crew via mail and PMDG via their support desk. Yes, but the main advantage of solving problems/asking questions throug a forum is that others with the same problem/question can get a much quicker answer. For me, a forum is much more than pure support... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted March 7, 2014 Aerosoft Share Posted March 7, 2014 Posted by Tom Allensworth: Strange, on a raid array with 6 drives 4 will have to fail before the array is offline. Never heard about having to replace ALL drives on an array. Must have been a physical event (arrays dropped or something). We had a root drive failed this week on the forum, but it we just pulled the drive, dropped in a new one and the forum was never offline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs mopperle 4162 Posted March 7, 2014 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted March 7, 2014 I'm als wondering about that. I hope that they had not a Raid0 configured, but even in this case you usually only have to replace the faulty drive. Problem is then to have a good DR concept. But usually you are running either Raid5 or Raid10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decampos 3 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thanks for the information. One could say "who cares, just wait" - however due to the commercial forums (or fora?) that are attached this is a real pitty... I wish companies like PMDG, FS2Crew.... would open their own forum, that would reduce the workload on the avsim server significantly! +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badfinger 62 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 With Tom adding bug tracking, and taptalk and all the frilly stuff I am not surprised Avsim keeps falling down. For weeks and weeks, it has been slow loading and 2230Z on time every time, it would experience overload error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabo 41 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I am told that the problem with the disk is not sudden, rather underlying problem with (at least one) disk may be the cause of forum slowness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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