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And We're Back...

That was probably the most frustrating 24 hours on record, but, mediatemple have been more than supportive in what was a whole bunch of hardware problems their end. We've moved to new servers that shouldn't have this kind of down time in future.

We've been keeping twitter updated the entire time with news as we got it and llllost has been humming along with updates too. So we weren't really gone at all!

Hope you guys are OK and we didn't miss too much today?

 

28 Comments

  • At first I thought you shut down the site. or something like that. then I thought to go to lllost.com , and them I went to twitter.At least MediaTemple was supportive. Still I think they should be more careful next time about what is going on. Anyways I remember hearing something about the heist 2, is it the final stage of beta or something? outofthefog — 3 Years ago
  • I was worried until I saw you updated llllost.com (I have it email when JTS's and llllost.com's RSS is updated) and I saw the check Twitter image and that cleared some things up. Remember to check Twitter everyone! Runey676 — 3 Years ago
  • I thought Safari was acting up. ThePika — 3 Years ago
  • Is llllost.com a alias of JTS? In other words, do you guys own it? I was sort of worried :( I actually thought you released heist 2 and the insane traffic (of all your loving fans!) crashed the site XD The thought was fleeting, but cool. Im glad everything is sorted out :) I got to see new heist pictures on llllost :P pianite — 3 Years ago
  • I was getting worried and thought that you whole website was deleted or something. Then I went to the extent of rebooting my computer, but after that I though I will wait a couple of days.... ata95 — 3 Years ago
  • I was just hoping you guys back your information up just incase, cause I know I don't haha and someday its gonna screw me over... projectfinale — 3 Years ago
  • i was seriously worried that jts, the site i know and love, was playing an EPIC game with our minds. but then i thought "naw, they love us too much to mess with us sooooo bad." i turned out to be right XD. glad you guys are back again. mitch123456789 — 3 Years ago
  • I'm glad we didn't go down unnoticed. http://llllost.com is our image blog. meridimus — 3 Years ago
  • Yes, i did miss you Max. But thank God for Twitter! mk0092 — 3 Years ago
  • I thought I got banned from the site cause I had such a low level lol ;D skillownz101 — 3 Years ago
  • Me too! I thought I was banned :( mrgoo99 — 3 Years ago
  • Good to see you guys are moving up! Good job. PK_Nugget — 3 Years ago
  • whew i tought you shut down the site; ] lioko8 — 3 Years ago
  • i thought it had something to do with the heist 2
    griffinpug5 — 3 Years ago
  • Well, I hope we don't let you down when The Heist 2 is released. The cool thing about our servers is, when we get a traffic spike it does what's called "load balancing", essentially, copies the entire site to other servers until the load is back to optimal and then, when the spike is over, scales itself back.

    The best thing is this all happens automatically, all of the time. As you can guess, it's pretty complicated (ask yourself the question, if someone posts a forum topic, how does it merge across all the servers?). This is also the reason for the downtime we just had, the original servers were experimental and while the new servers are still experimental, they're based on the lessons learned from the original versions.

    Any problems we could face in the future will hopefully be much more contained and I can confirm that we're fully moved to the new servers as of now.

    In answer to ProjectFinale, we set-up automated backups to the Amazon S3 servers every night and take local and distributed copies in the morning. The worst case scenario is we have to go back a single day.

    Luckily, MediaTemple also take their own backups too so we're covering a number of bases just-in-case.
    meridimus — 3 Years ago
  • Well it's good to know we have extra backups of the site! lol When I first read this I thought it said the heist 2 is released, I was like SWEEET! lol that got my hopes down :( ☺ outofthefog — 3 Years ago
  • I know someone who's site is like that. They use amazon's servers and they have a script that buys them and sells servers. They can be turned off and on in 1 minute and it only costs a buck or 2 an hour. So they always have enough bandwidth and they save tons of money :D The only downside is, if you start using a server, even for just 20 seconds, your charged an hour :( pianite — 3 Years ago
  • Yeah, I've been reading up on Amazon EC2 (it means "Elastic Cloud"). It seems like a great idea and I'm already using S3 for the backups. I worked out the costs and it's a lot more expensive on Amazon servers although they're really cool. MediaTemple suits us for now. meridimus — 3 Years ago
  • Yeah, you guys have DV?
    I use hostmonster personally for my little site :) A lot of disk and bandwidth :o
    pianite — 3 Years ago
  • No, we used (gs) because (dv) performs badly for us. We need distributed servers because a single server just doesn't do enough for us.

    What's your site?
    meridimus — 3 Years ago
  • My site is very WIP :P Its mostly for learning PHP, I dont really have a purpous for it :( All I can do is simple-ish PHP, HTML, and CSS.

    Any suggestions?

    And its sort of a personal site for the time being, sorry :(
    pianite — 3 Years ago
  • anyone know when the heist 2 is coming
    out please!
    miniclip2156 — 3 Years ago
  • Maybe this Month or even the next week... Well thats what i heard from Meridimus's posts right? SaWaS — 3 Years ago
  • i sent meridimus an email as i fort i was banned ;D lolol n1411 — 3 Years ago
  • I NEED THE HEIST 2 TO SURVIVE! ThePika — 3 Years ago
  • @pianite You should check out http://www.codeigniter.com/ for PHP development, it's what JTS is written on. meridimus — 3 Years ago
  • Please put more games on Kong...not all people are jerks on Kong...just a small speck of ungrateful gamers. Your games rock. Gryphus, out gryphus1153 — 3 Years ago
  • Ooh! Looks cool! Is it an exe or do you upload it to your server? pianite — 3 Years ago
 

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