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Seems to be back up now - yay
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Hi all - the Episodes Archive is off for a bit - problems on the host end
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422 now
That's fewer than 2 years' worth of episodes at 240 eps per year
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While 20 years are completed in their entirety, lots of other years a partially completed too - in fact the archive is 94% complete now - just 423 episodes left to summarise
Well done everyone! I started summarising in 2004 I think
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I think the hosts had a blip and have restored the database, losing a couple of hours in the process
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Just to let you know that our http://www.neighboursepisodes.com archive has reached 6000! Thank you to everyone who has participated over the years
Our eye is definitely on the prize now for a completed archive! 
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He he thanks Em! I am considering a new challenge to take me up to the end of the year
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Thank you guys
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Aw, thank you Sal
I am happy to have completed the challenge, albeit only just in time!
Other summaries are also going up, Graham has been writing loads from the 90s recently
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Wahey! Can't believe it's 7 years at the new address. I'd forgotten about the board meltdown. That certainly was a stressful few days
Thank you Sal for everything you do to keep this community alive and happy
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I would like to add for those who might not realise, that the board is not free to run - between here and neighboursepisodes.com, it takes several hundred pounds a year to run, most of which is absorbed by Sal. Therefore support of just a few pounds a year is greatly appreciated! And there are a few subscriber perks, too!
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Well, they've banned both me and you a few times.
This is true!
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Edit: They are different.
Aha that'll be it then. I don't know what criteria the host use but -
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I'm wondering whether JA's right and Alex was requested to be banned at some point when she was working...I can't remember doing it, but maybe if we were looking to ban from one location (I.e. let someone access from elsewhere but banned from home)?
But I don't for the life of me remember doing it...but it's the only thing I can think of as plausible.
If you had though, surely it would have been done from the forum, rather than at an ISP level? I don't *think* the two lists are the same, but I can't see the forum ban list, only the one behind the scenes. Maybe you could check, Sal?
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How you got on a ban list is anyone's guess
I didn't even know there was a IP ban list there until this week. (in fact, it may have been hidden to us before this point)The ban list has always been in the Admin bit. I wonder if for some reason Alex's ISP changed to one that was already in the filter? If we get people persistently signing up when they've been banned so that could be a reason.
It certainly wouldn't have been added to deliberately ban you, Alex, but it is possible I did it in error whilst trying to get rid of someone else.
No, I don't think it's the same ban list, Janet. It's nothing to do with the forum database, this is on the server itself, I think it's a higher ban list than the board one, one that resides with the ISP. I'm sure you check the forum's ban list before for Alex's IP and it wasn't there.
There was a time when the host put everyone who typed their password in wrong on an ISP-level ban list at one time, hence my
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Well quite, and I may not have a job anymore if anyone checks the work internet logs for this week and finds it full of neighboursfans entries and Gigabytes of uploads
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Actually, I think that was me Alex - I experimentally deleted any IPs near mine from the ban list, I think yours was one of them. How you got on a ban list is anyone's guess
I didn't even know there was a IP ban list there until this week. (in fact, it may have been hidden to us before this point) -
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The LJ is pretty much the go-to for a board outage. And the LJ is public so you don't need to sign up unless you want to post
It's great to be back among you guys
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Thanks for geting the board back, I was very worried as well.
May I make a suggestion? What I believe is your home page still came up, would it have been possible to put a short message on there to briefly say what had happened?
Also, because I began since May I wasn't able get back in as myself, so I've registered as a brand new user with the same name. I hope that is an okay thing to do.
Hi - we already have a Livejournal which we've had for many years to post updates on in this sort of situation, and a Twitter. The LJ is at http://nf-com-updates.livejournal.com/ Might be an idea to bookmark it
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Not since they've agreed to double our space for free as an apology, no
As Sal said last night - most of the time they're fine, it's just when they mess up they do it in style. That's part of the reason why we moved the summaries archive to a separate host - so it could be independent.
I am liking the bath, hot chocolate and early night plan
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Please keep some floppies handy and backup on a daily basis
Hmmm yes, 800Mb would fit nicely on a floppy
If only it were that easy. I can't be bothered to fully go into what we've been through in the last few days but it was long, complicated and very tiring. Especially as we didn't have access to the entirety of the server and had to use work-arounds. And I don't know what would have happened if Sal and I didn't have specialised computing knowledge of the working of webservers, databases, SQL etc etc as the hosts didn't have a clue. Having a non-corrupted backup was only one piece in the puzzle
Thanks to everyone for their kind words, I think I'll have an early night tonight!
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I was *this* close to doing an entirely clean install, so the lost of four months is nothing by comparison
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Hi guys
So sorry for the downtime this week. It's a long story, but basically the database was corrupted when the host decided to move server. We had 5 minutes notice of the move. The host hadn't made a recent backup, and I'm afraid the only one available was for May 2011.
So it's a "back in time" board I'm afraid - anyone who's signed up since May will need to do so again....all topics since May are lost forever...feel free to make new ones though
Please let me know if you notice anything screwy
This one's been a marathon.
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@Tracy C recently completed her 1000th summary! Thanks Tracy!
I remember those cold winter nights we spent summarising 2001 and condoling with each other over Yahoo Messenger all those years ago!