IRC down?

submitted by Entropick from self.SaidIt

I'm never sure if it's technical on my side or if there is something going on, just wondering.

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[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

Nope, it's up and working. What exactly is happening for you?

[–]Troll 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"You are not connected to the IRC network."

I think your client might be connecting to localhost, which means, I'm trying to connect to myself.

[–]Entropick[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

10:54 Network created, connecting to 127.0.0.1:8443... 10:54 Disconnected from the network, and will not reconnect. Use /connect to reconnect again. 11:02 You are not connected to the IRC network, unable to send your command

tried refreshing. maybe a restart in general in necessary.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Fixed with a restart, thanks for reporting it

[–]Entropick[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Definitely. While you're around, I was casually wondering if that server was connectable from any regular client, like irssi.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nope, there's no external access or other clients allowed. I'm into it if there's enough demand. We've hesitated because it likely entails standing up another server. And maybe we should be using Matrix anyway.

If you want to get the ball rolling, you can post about it on /s/IdeasForSaidIt or /s/SaidItSurveys or /s/SaidIt

[–]Entropick[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Great thanks man

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

It's down for me... Looks okay but in an incognito window the guest can't connect. I'll do a restart and try to adjust the config tonight to be more stable.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The per-sub channels are loading correctly for the first time in a while, whatever you did worked well.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Sweet. I think we're maxing it out somehow, we had over 1024 TheLounge users when a new guest could not connect... I think we've maxed out before at that number. We might have to get more aggressive with our guest user flusher.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Great, sounds like a plan.

Quick question, if our server company happens to lock everything and delete it, we have a continually-updating off-site backup of the database, right? I think you've told me the answer is yes, I just want to be certain.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

if our server company happens to lock everything and delete it, we have a continually-updating off-site backup of the database, right?

No, we have manual backups and however the web hosts' add on backup service works.

Streaming or mirroring both databases off-site would take serious effort and impact performance.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Ah ok. Could we schedule an automated off-site backup every 24h at 2am or something? Just automate what we're already doing manually, with a bash script or something?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yep sure we could use rsync or a similar tool to push backups to another server over SSH. We just need the other server. Also I think there's very little risk that our hosting provider would delete our data on purpose. Even if they refuse our business they won't delete, that'd open them up to a lawsuit.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Okay, cool. Maybe we could do our normal backup and I could also use the saiditdev server as a secondary backup. I just want to be prepared for the worst, in case there's legal trouble and our server company is forced to lock our data or something like that.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah that'd work