| 14Bore | 08 Aug 2015 5:26 p.m. PST |
It has never bothered me on the 0 dark thirty daily? maintenance. Now I'm usually up but hardly ever turned on the computer. But now with a Kindle it's on in a second so while. I go to a few news or blog sites I could go to TMP but can't. So no other sites I go to do this on a daily or weekly schedule why does this place have to? Just looking for a novice answer to satisfy my curiosity. |
| John the OFM | 08 Aug 2015 8:42 p.m. PST |
Bill has to clean the coal ashes out of the boiler, and prevent the electrode beams from crossing. |
| StarfuryXL5 | 08 Aug 2015 11:05 p.m. PST |
And brush out the droppings from beneath the hamster wheel. |
| AussieAndy | 08 Aug 2015 11:50 p.m. PST |
For those in Oz, the daily maintenance shutdown is in the early evening, rather than the middle of the night. So, I am struggling to sympathise. Bill aint making money while TMP is shutdown, so I assume that the shutdowns are necessary. |
 Doms Decals  | 09 Aug 2015 2:48 a.m. PST |
Combination of an old platform (Miva and mySQL iirc, which is, umm, rather long in the tooth) and a huge database which that technology can't comfortably handle. Until the long mooted TMP 4.0 appears, it's a necessary evil – afaik the only way to significantly cut the maintenance period in the meantime would be to significantly reduce the database size – ie. massively cull old message board posts, which would be getting rid of a hell of a useful resource. |
| Martin Rapier | 09 Aug 2015 4:16 a.m. PST |
It is busy reticulating the splines. As Dom noted, it is a feature of the ancient technology TMP is written in, it needs some offline time to rebuild its indexes. Yes, it is a pita and not something you'd expect in any website developed after 1998 (periodic system maintenance apart). |
| Goober | 09 Aug 2015 5:56 a.m. PST |
Daily maintenance starts around 9am for us here in the UK. |
| Doms Decals | 09 Aug 2015 7:06 a.m. PST |
Yeah, it's terribly inconvenient, as it means we have to start the working day by working instead of browsing TMP…. ;-) |
| Toronto48 | 09 Aug 2015 7:52 a.m. PST |
Bill's server provider and the reason for daily shutdowns |
| 14Bore | 09 Aug 2015 8:05 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the explanation guys.
Toronto48- that's how I picture it. |
| StarfuryXL5 | 10 Aug 2015 6:11 p.m. PST |
it means we have to start the working day by working instead of browsing TMP…. ;-) Bite your tongue, sir! |
paints some fast cats.
