Castle Paradox

Inferior Minion

Hello All,

As it's 3:30 AM and I've hardly gotten any sleep since Friday, I'm going to keep this short. I apologize profusely for the extended and unexpected downtime these past few days. Sometime around 3PM Thursday afternoon, the Castle Paradox web server locked up for reasons unknown. Being at work at the time, I was unable to troubleshoot, diagnose, or even restart the machine.

I'm not sure if it was the cause of the freeze or the result of the freeze, but Castle Paradox's LVM metadata was somehow corrupt, leaving the drive unbootable. My initial attempt to salvage the drive was rather fruitless and while I was able to confirm all the data was present, I was unable to access it or the backup HD through the machine.

A new HD was purchased on Friday and recovery began, then screeched to a halt when the DVD-ROM drive refused to work anymore. Luckily, I had a few lying around from other machines and initiated a fresh install on the new HD.

Friday night and most of Saturday was spent reconstructing the backup HD and prepping the new installation to work with the backup schema and restore the files. Restoration took the better part of the morning and I was dealing with service setup by noon. I'd forgotten just how many services and configurations Castle Paradox has on it. Not all services previously hosted on CP are installed and configured yet, but websites appear to be fully functional. f you see anything odd, please do send me an e-mail or respond to this thread. Please do know that I may not respond immediately to e-mails, as I am having some issues with sending through the e-mail server, but receiving is functioning just fine. E-mail is my highest priority now that the web server is up and running.

Thank you for your patience and I'm sorry again for the downtime,

~IM
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TMC · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:08 am Post subject:

Hurrah! Thanks for all the hard work you put into the site. Gald to see it back, though I wasn't worried :)

I can see that the fortune quotes in your signature is one thing currently not working :P
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Moogle1 · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:05 am Post subject:

Hey, while you're here, can you explain why the forum seems to think I'm a "gay asshole"? (See left)
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Raekuul · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:36 am Post subject:

Well, at least some things are working now. Glad to know you're back, man.

What it looks like is that the ranking titles aren't being overwritten by the custom user titles, so that explains the gay asshole thing at least.

Erm, is there an estimate on how long before you can start working on repairing the FTP side of things? I need to, uh, restore a backup.
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jabbercat · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 9:25 am Post subject:

Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

I need more enemies.
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Inferior Minion · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:01 am Post subject:

Raekuul · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 7:36 am Post subject:

It's possible that my ftp client is messed up, but when I tried to connect after CP came back online FireFTP was spat a bad certificate error at me.

I tried connecting over hosting.castleparadox, but that wasn't working either.

EDIT: Looks like I forgot my password *-*
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NeoSpade · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:35 am Post subject:

Hey sorry if this iis the wrong thread to post this in but it appears that CP has became Hotel California, whenever I try to log out I get this;

Inferior Minion · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:15 pm Post subject: