Entropedia.info official thread

[Witte]

Originally Posted by Cail

Hey Witte, there seems to be some sort of missinformation on the wiki, when you do a search for "T1", in healing tools listing it gives eco of 11.41 for Vivo T1.
And then when you Tools -> Healing Tools, eco of 9.98.
Also the heal/sec is different.

How's this? I would've thought they come from the same DB?

The eco value is not stored in the database but is calculated from average heal divided by decay at the moment the table is generated. I will investigate this as soon as the site is back up again.

[Witte]

Entropedia is currently down due to another database crash. This time a more recent backup is available so in case it is not possible to repair the database not much data will be lost. The cause of the problem seems to be a faulty HD, which may also have been the cause of the crash some weeks ago. The case is currently under investigation. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[ALEXANDER]

entropedia is down (

[Naomi]

a decent uptime would be good for this site

greetz

[Cail]

Originally Posted by Witte

The cause of the problem seems to be a faulty HD, which may also have been the cause of the crash some weeks ago.

How 'bout a small fund-racer to get Witte a new hard-drive, anyone?
After all it's you users who broke it with massive load to the server with your visits! ;p

[Kimmi]

Is it just me or did entropedia change url or shut down or something..

Ive been trying for two days to open entropedia.info... but cant open page.

Maybe neomaven can fix since hes hosting....

[711]

Originally Posted by Kimmi

Is it just me or did entropedia change url or shut down or something..

Ive been trying for two days to open entropedia.info... but cant open page.

Maybe neomaven can fix since hes hosting....

Please check the Entropedia.com official thread for such issues rather than creating a new thread, and you will see that Witte has already made a post about this issue:

Originally Posted by Witte

Entropedia is currently down due to another database crash. This time a more recent backup is available so in case it is not possible to repair the database not much data will be lost. The cause of the problem seems to be a faulty HD, which may also have been the cause of the crash some weeks ago. The case is currently under investigation. Sorry for any inconvenience.

There is a database problem on the server, affecting both Entropedia and EntropiansIM.

I also posted about the issues in the Entropians.com forum:

Originally Posted by 711

Sorry for the downtime, there is a database problem on the server. (God I hate windows servers...)

Working on it now, hopefully fixed soon.

Apologies for the inconvenience, hopefully will be fixed soon.

We have database backups for wiki that are only a couple days old, so in the worst case we can restore from those, but first we are trying to recover normally.

[jambon]

Entropedia has been down for days now, is anyone working on getting that site back up?

What's the deal, does anyone know why the site hasn't been online for so long now?

[711]

I have been able to restore the Entropedia database from backup, the site is now available as a reference to entropians.

Witte and I will work on a more permanent and stable solution so that these MySQL database problems (which have happened twice now in less than a month) do not continue.

MySQL and Windows do not play very nicely together unfortunately, so we are hoping to move the wiki database over to my dedicated Linux DB server (the same one that powers the EF database), and once and for all eradicate any downtimes. This poses a few complications due to differences in the way .NET communicates with MySQL databases hosted on Windoze and Unix environments, but we hope to tackle those.

Thanks for your patience during the downtime.

[Witte]

I managed to get the site working with the Linux database, but since it is on a different system it has a huge impact on the speed of the site. For now I have disabled editing untill a final solution is found. My hope is that we can fix the issues with the windows machine.