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Freeforums.org is DOWN for everyone.
It is not just you. The server is not responding...

Hello everyone,
Our network was taken down for an unscheduled maintenance last night. Some repairs are still being done at this hour. The forums should be up, although you may experience severe slowness, and possibly intermittent interruptions as well as server lags. As soon as all repairs are done, the pageloads will speed right up. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this is causing to the communities.
For any questions or most recent updates, please feel free to contact us at the help desk via this link:
http://help.freeforums.org/support/tickets/new
Thanks

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Ingrid Antonsson
Ingrid Antonsson It's still down.
2 hrs
Alan Percival
Alan Percival Was up (and slow), now down again. Updates appreciated!
2 hrs
Vanessa Leete
Vanessa Leete Hello Vanessa, All servers on our network are undergoing unscheduled maintenance. Some of them are back up but repair scripts are running on others which will create a lag until they all catch up. We apologize for the inconvenience. I do not have an estimate of the time frame before they are all back online.
1 hr
Andrew Brownlee
Andrew Brownlee Wow. Forty-eight hours late, and still factually incorrect. My forum was up - grindingly slow - for a short time about thirteen hours ago. Apart from that, two days of utter jack.
3 · 1 hr
Destry Rivers
Destry Rivers My Site is up and down, and when it's up it is extremely slow. Yesterday all i got was an error page. So i use this site to show me when i want to know if a site is up or down. http://www.websitedown.info/
1 · 1 hr

lightafterlife.freeforums.org is down

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Whiskers wrote:Just been over to lightafterlife forum.  It is very slow loading which is a bit frustrating but a bit of patience gets you there in the end.
Thanks so much for keeping us updated kk. 

Yes, it does seem I may have jumped the gun a bit.  This forum was absolutely fine yesterday.  Today I found it painfully slow waiting to get in - but once in here everything is working well.    Seems other forums are reporting exactly the same thing.   At least it is accessible (at the moment).  A lot of other FreeForum sites are just showing blank pages when you try to call them up.

The technicians have apparently been working round the clock on this huge universal problem and as their own Support Forum was down itself in the midst of all this (back up now, but who knows for how long  ) - they have now set up a temporary place on a totally different server so that people can see what's going on in the interim.

Here is the link to that temporary notification site:

http://samporpass.com/index.php?topic=315.0

Reading in there, you can see that many other forums are still experiencing problems just as we are here.

We can only be patient that it gets resolved soon.  

   White Pages
   This was due to unscheduled power interruption and database repairs.
   Status: Resolved
   If you're still having problems, please make a post in the General Support forum.

   Slow loading forums
   Once again due to unscheduled database maintenance.
   Status: Resolved
   If you're still having problems, please make a post in the General Support forum.

   E-mail not being sent
   Caused by the database repairs, unfortunately no e-mails were sent. So make sure to check for Inactive Users in your Administration Control Panel (ACP)!
   Status: Resolved
   If you're still having problems, please make a post in the General Support forum.

   Posts not showing up
   Due to the database repairs scripts (the scripts fixing everything) there are several server lags, this might result in post not showing up.
   Status: Resolved

Kitkat wrote:   I'm getting pretty fed up now, changing the description of this thread from to to and back again to .

bimbow wrote:Quote from the FFs FB page......."I want my data!!!!! Enough is enough. Stop holding our forums for ransom while you sort out your broken business. Sell (or give) us the content/data of our forums so we can re-host somewhere more stable."


No chance.

Whiskers wrote:Light after Life is down.    

   Hi everyone,

   I am really sorry for the late reaction. I was at dinner and just signed on to find a good number of reports. Trust me if I tell you that I'm just as annoyed by the outages as all of you are.

   Now, what's happening and why do we keep going down... you deserve an explanation.

   As you know, we had a total outage of all our networks a couple weeks ago. This, in fact, caused a lot of damage. The outage was caused by a PDU overload during a routine maintenance. It was a PDU the board servers were connected to, so the outage caused data corruption. The following week was a bit of misery, because scripts were running on all servers, causing constant lags and white pages. These were in fact not caused by any issues, they were caused by the repair scripts running, which is taxing on the servers.

   We had a second PDU overload earlier this week, this was a different one and thankfully, did not affect the actual board servers. In spite of an outage that lasted several hours, no repair scripts had to be run but the outage was frustrating to many, nonetheless.

   On top of it all, we also experienced repeated issues with one of the cache servers, including the issue that caused the downtime this evening.

   What to expect for the future:

   Work is being done in the background to avoid situations such as this one. This work includes, but is not limited to, moving boards between servers to balance the loads. Last week, many boards were moved off C14. In the coming week, boards will be moved off C4. Once the servers are more balanced and the cache servers have had some maintenance, we will be in better shape.

   I understand that there is worry, and I know that the boards mean a lot to you all. I also know that we've gone through quite a stretch of bad server performance here, and that some things still need to be done before we're completely out of the woods. Please rest assured that out first concern is to make the network stable again so that we can put these outages behind us.

   I am truly sorry for these outages. Please hang in there.

Candlelight wrote

Misty wrote:sad Still not right KK.  I am not receiving any notification emails about new posts made here.  Up until a few days ago I did but now there is nothing. 
Didn't notice this until I had a look in the forum yesterday and saw there were some new posts which I not been notified of. I have checked my profile and yes I have asked for notifications by email.  If I didn't check in here I wouldn't know about the new posts.

Well, I received notification about this post!  I was going to reply to you, suggesting that it might be your computer causing the problem - but had a check in with Support first.  There I find that others are reporting the same problem as you,    but it doesn't seem to be affecting everyone.

Here are the two most recent posts made on the subject - posted today.  Looks as though it's all dependant on what email provider you use. 
What a flamin' circus!  Will it ever end? 

Re: no activation emails, general emails or pm notification
Hi, still have same issues with emails, only myself and anyone on gmail are receiving emails despite me doing everything you asked me to above. I have pm's in my out box as they don't know they have one until they visit the forum. I am losing people with this, please try and help with this issue, it was all fine before the crash everyone got email notifications whichever email server they were on.

Post Re: no activation emails, general emails or pm notification
Back again!! lots of members reporting they still haven't received email notification, some saying they never lost it !! and the ones who are getting emails from my gmail get a warning that it may not be from me, now they are worried to do anything.

At least you know it's not just you.  I know that's no consolation - and I'm not even going to say have patience .....  because I am fast running out of patience myself with FreeForums.       I know of some forum admins who have had enough of the whole shebang - some considering closing down altogether, or at least moving to different, more reliable hosts.

If/when you do start to get email notifications again, Misty - please let us know here.
(Also - if this is affecting anyone else reading this, do please come and report it here.)

The problem is that we're considered spammers (in a way), and we are in the process of re-establishing us as the honest people that we are
Unfortunately, this doesn't happen overnight, but it is being worked on.

Stardust wrote:I wanted to get into LAL earlier and there was no connection. Just now I got the page and logged-in but immediately after it cut off with this message:

General Error
template->_tpl_load_file(): File ./styles/xmasrouge/template/portal/block/custom.html does not exist or is empty
Please notify the board administrator or webmaster: light_afterlife@yahoo.co.uk

So I suppose that means that for the forum LAL I'm still logged-in as I've not been able to get the page back and log out.