If you have team or other forums hosted on www.forum5.com - they are all down and have been for while now. No information is forthcoming from the hosts and there is no knowing how long they will be down for.

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Thank You iX . . .

If you have team or other forums hosted on www.forum5.com - they are all down and have been for while now. No information is forthcoming from the hosts and there is no knowing how long they will be down for.

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

It is indeed good to own your servers :)

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It is indeed good to own your servers :)

Even they can go down for a week ;)

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It is indeed good to own your servers :)

Even they can go down for a week ;)

True, but when you own the server you may be able to prevent it or fix it in a timely fashion.

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It is indeed good to own your servers :)

Even they can go down for a week ;)

SSSHHHHHH!!!!! They can hear you!

Golly gosh ...I didn't even notice.

From forum5 techincal support;

As all of you already know that forum5 is down and this happened because all of drives in one array failed at the same time. Though this not a common thing in raid 10 configuration.

Now we have shipped our hard drvies to recovery professional and hoping to get back soon.

I doubt whether owning own servers would have made a difference in a situation like this ;)

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From forum5 techincal support;

As all of you already know that forum5 is down and this happened because all of drives in one array failed at the same time. Though this not a common thing in raid 10 configuration.

Now we have shipped our hard drvies to recovery professional and hoping to get back soon.

I doubt whether owning own servers would have made a difference in a situation like this ;)

\\Off TOPIC/ Brings up the question, what would be the aversge lifespan off a average processor, since they have NO moving parts, only a (moleculair/atomic), electron-movement.I think HEAT will be the most limitting factor, in forecasting the average lifespan.\\End Off OFF Topic/

Drives or a R.A.I.D. Array of drives have lots off moving pats whitch can/will fail, due to (eccessive) and or longterm use.

I know this is difficult, due to the fysics (laws).

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From forum5 techincal support;

As all of you already know that forum5 is down and this happened because all of drives in one array failed at the same time. Though this not a common thing in raid 10 configuration.

Now we have shipped our hard drvies to recovery professional and hoping to get back soon.

I doubt whether owning own servers would have made a difference in a situation like this ;)

\\Off TOPIC/ Brings up the question, what would be the aversge lifespan off a average processor, since they have NO moving parts, only a (moleculair/atomic), electron-movement.I think HEAT will be the most limitting factor, in forecasting the average lifespan.\\End Off OFF Topic/

Drives or a R.A.I.D. Array of drives have lots off moving pats whitch can/will fail, due to (eccessive) and or longterm use.

I know this is difficult, due to the fysics (laws).

I have an old dual P3 server with RAID -1 mirror which has been running 24/7/365 for over 8 years so far!

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

From forum5 techincal support;

As all of you already know that forum5 is down and this happened because all of drives in one array failed at the same time. Though this not a common thing in raid 10 configuration.

Now we have shipped our hard drvies to recovery professional and hoping to get back soon.

I doubt whether owning own servers would have made a difference in a situation like this ;)

\\Off TOPIC/ Brings up the question, what would be the aversge lifespan off a average processor, since they have NO moving parts, only a (moleculair/atomic), electron-movement.I think HEAT will be the most limitting factor, in forecasting the average lifespan.\\End Off OFF Topic/

Drives or a R.A.I.D. Array of drives have lots off moving pats whitch can/will fail, due to (eccessive) and or longterm use.

I know this is difficult, due to the fysics (laws).

I have an old dual P3 server with RAID -1 mirror which has been running 24/7/365 for over 8 years so far!

We always seem to be having problems with RAID drives where I work. The difficulty on some of the older servers seems to be in finding suitable second hand replacement drives (since they don't make them any more), and the high prices being charged for them.

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forum5.com is still down.There still no further information from the hosts about the faulty disks or word from the Recovery Professionals.

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forum5.com is still down.There still no further information from the hosts about the faulty disks or word from the Recovery Professionals.

Service will be back soon.

;)

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

forum5.com is still down.There still no further information from the hosts about the faulty disks or word from the Recovery Professionals.

Service will be back soon.

;)

And still : Service will be back soon.

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There is a message on http://www.forum5.com/ saying "Service will be back on 28th April."

A post on iForumer from a moderator indicates that total data from all 8 disks has been recovered.

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Extreme unreliability compared to most hosting sites

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Irrelevant now anyway....

hmm... why?
I think many people will find it relevant.. it does after all
affect many forums.. so im happy to hear it will come back to
normal ;-)

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I'm sure this is relevant to Team England (BOINC) who support SETI, and other teams who also support SETI and may use forum5 for their team forums.

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"Update : MySqlDump is in process and all forums will be back soon."

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As some of you are aware, several of the websites i am involved in were hosted by freeforums.org .....It was a very similar set-up to what you guys have on forum5.com

For over a year with freeforums.com i put up with;
1. Constant downtime
2. Website going completely missing
3. No back-up leading to Hugh amounts of lost members info, messages and data.
4. Continual slow loading pages
5. Inability to login or register
6. Broken promises by the web-hosting admins

And finally, the straw that broke the camel's back. They always promised from day one that they would NEVER advertise on my free hosted forum.....

7. They put advertising everywhere on everybody's forums and said you can pay $5 dollars a month to have it removed!

I could not take it anymore. So now i pay for web-hosting and all of my websites are always there. Nothing goes missing, nothing is lost and none of the website are slow anymore.

You can get payed web-hosting for as little as $4 USD a month. To put that in perspective, a pint of beer in Ireland costs about €4.50 and a Mcdonalds big mac meal is about €7.00, so for the sake of a few quid a month, I'm willing to pay for a stress free life.

Now i can add anything i like to the website and i don't have to ask anyone. I just get stuff myself and add it to the website, including all the forums are phpBB3. You have to ask the question...."Would £2.50 a month break me?".

Google search; webhosting

John.

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