The database issues affecting the forums since last night have been repaired by Robert
All should work normally now.
All should work normally now.
Not really fixed. Some post's not showing and not functioning as it was before.
Can you send me links to those posts. I cannot find any issues.
what was the cause, and what is to prevent it from happening again?
The issue was caused by our MySQL server shutting down, which was actually caused by a quota error on the VPS node its on. When the node was eventually re-booted, all was good.
This has been happening once in while, and I was surprised its running on VPS. If i were you, I would move to Dedicated
I run many VPS/Ded servers so I speak from experience. Just sayin'
Was on a dedicated box for 10 years. Moving to a VPS saved some $$$ and we gained in performance.