SEN went down towards the end of April 12th and was just recently restored. We are not sure exactly what happened, but it appears there was a corruption in the database. In trying to repair that, it was discovered that SEN was very low on disk space. Certain system processes on the servers were filling it with useless files and logs. (This appears to have been preventing repairs to the database.)

As of now, many gigabytes of space have been cleared. A repair on the forum database was run successfully and all data appears to be intact. While we are not exactly sure what caused the issue (running out of disk space seems like a likely culprit), we are looking to figure that out and correct it. Furthermore, we apologize for the downtime and any inconvenience to our SEN community.

UPDATE: Clearing old and useless files has created about 135x more free space available on SEN's server. (I wish I was kidding) Things should be faster and/or break less frequently because of this.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Apr 14 2012, 6:14 am by Mini Moose 2707.

I saw "Max connections exceeded" and I assumed Romania's bots were eating SEN again, so I wrote it off as normal like every other day. Ah well.

I want to be compensated for my Magic Box loss of expenditure and my Raffle loss of revenue.

Lol as did I.

Yeah, we're still not exactly sure what happened. The max_user error came up longer than normal, and prevented access to SEN's SQL db or FTP. Once everything was rebooted, parts of the SQL db started to disappear. As Moose said, we've made some changes to the MySQL as well as freeing up a ton of space, so hopefully this wont happen again ever (or at least anytime soon).

Does this mean the search feature could be re-enabled?

I get god damn SQL errors when I'm trying to preview my monster-post. It's really annoying.

A Staredit Network error has occured:
MySQL Error '2006': MySQL server has gone away
Query failed: SELECT * FROM attachments WHERE att_mid=1991 AND ((att_status=0 AND att_posts=0))
Waited: 0.0348091125488 ms
Please contact administration with all the details.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 15 2012, 11:01 pm by Oh_Man.