Sorry about the site being down. Too many connections lately seem to be overloading something on the server. It may be the new "tracking every user on every page" thing is not quite a bonus when you have 150+ users doing it.

I was in bed most of today sick so I would have noted this earlier if not.

Thanks,
Jim

i think i just heard a collective sigh of relief...

Get better soon!

Gunnie

Thanks for the hard work Jim. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Ahhh, the pain of withdrawl is subsiding....

Jim

Hope you feel better soon



Steve

Jim --> http://www.postgresql.com/

An Apple(tm) a Day...,um,never mind,keep using a PC... (++) (++)

Jim,
Just want to say how much I appreciate your efforts! Been going through some serious big-A withdrawls today!!

Get well!

Steve

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I can carefully step down from the ledge now.

Jim, I'm sure you are most aware of it, but I just have to tell you what a treasure I realize this site is, when it isn't available.

I was like a teenage girl who had been stood up for prom, looking out the window every 5 minutes to see if my "date" would arrive.

Sorry for the twisted imagery.

Hope you feel better soon Jim.


John

Paul,
Thanks for the suggestion. I think before overhauling all the code in the site I will try re-installing a PHP accelerator engine that we use to have before the hard-drive failure. A little caching will probably do the trick. And I have some other ideas to cut down on excessive queries...for one I wrote a lot of early code not using JOINS. So I know there is lot of savings there if I can spend the time to fix it.

Cheers,
Jim

hehe i think everyone was going thru withdrawals!! i was checking to see if i could access thru the foreign boards hehe glad it's back up and hope you feel better soon, staff jim!

Thanks for the well wishes all. And it is always nice to know how much the site is missed when it does go down (hopefully a lot less soon). We did so good for so long without outages.

Cheers,
Jim

:-) Yeah i;ve beenfiddling around with my naughty computer for ages today :-) no worries Jim get well soon mate !

Jim, sorry to hear about your ill's i hope you get back on your feet soon. And a big THANK YOU for getting the site back up!!!! Kevin

Jim - First off - hope you get better soon, take care of yourself.

Second of all, my professional opinion is to stay away from PostgreSQL. I used it in a producion environment and was very dissatisfied. I have since used MySQL and I have found it a more robust easy to use and easy to get support (in many forms) product.

Really? In my professional opinion too: Postgres is far superior for high-end use. We've deployed it on many BSD servers and have never had a problem. We also have deployed Sybase and Interbase servers which are also good and now opensource (Sybase released older vesions for free).

Paul.

Paul - no problem no offense directed at you, the PostgreSQL vs MySQL debate it's similar to the Windows vs. Mac debate, there are some on each side.
In my experience PostgreSQL was "not for me". I have ported that app to Sybase and life is good.

I realize there is a place for PostgreSQL I personally would start a new app with it vs. convert an existing app to it.

I guess if we have an outage, it is ok since it was due to too many users. There are worse reasons to be without. Nowhere to go but up.

Patrick

Sorry to hear you're sick Jim.....
I entertained myself, (although I did suffer from withdrawals), by visiting the chat room..... first time I was there..... and by talking to a few members on MSN and Yahoo......
By the way, I've been down a few days too.... sprained ankle....but back to work tomorrow night..... with an ace bandage on...... Hope everyone has a wonderful New Years.....

Jeez, that feels better. I've stopped shaking and my nicotine consumption is back to normal. The PC was switched on before I even made a cuppa and Armorama is back!! :-)

Thanks Jim, hope you feel better now Mate.

Agreed Dave, involuntary withdrawal is a really BAD thing!
Jim, thanks for the magic job your doing with Armorama and get well soon. OK, sorry that was not supposed to sound like an order. :-) Jim best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Get well soon Jim !!

Something tells me you work too hard... Sometimes one has to be able to sit back and enjoy too

Thanks for bringing the site back Jim, but most of all : take care of your health !
I wish you a fast cure ! (:-)

I don't think that us ' free participants' always fully appreciate the amount of work that you put in 'behind the scenes'.... many thanks for your hard work to enable us to enjoy the big A, and I hope you feel better soon.

Cheers
Henk