Quote Originally Posted by CuriousToyBoy
MAJOR server dramas last 2 days.. I'll get WebmasterDan to explain here as soon as he gets to the office ... 10 hours ahead of me here in London, but he should be there soon enough ;-)

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WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH CURIOUS CASH
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Well for about the last month we have been in the process of moving Curious Cash (and all that sits on that box) to a new server. This Server in all honesty has been unrealiable from the start and we have on numerous occasions tried to rectify the issue. After 12 months of patches failing we decided it was time to move. However, moving has proven extremely difficult. Due to the unstable nature of the server we have had to deal with constant transfer fails which has kept the timeline blowing out for this. Where we are at today is all of the sites from this box are now uploaded to a new server except for part of Curious Cash and one other site. By the end of the week I expect the sites to be running off the new server.

Why has the server been crashing?
- Well the exact answer we don't know. It is either a conflict with Software on the server or it is a problem with some of our code. We have tried to work with the host and we have actually upgraded this box a few times but the problem does not go away. Also I don't believe it could be a code issue causing crashes, as all of our scripts are aimed at the server which actually tracks the revshare (Seperate Box) and this server goes down about once a year. It seems to just be one of those things. It is like in the office here we are 3 computers that are identical, one never fails, one stuffs up every now and then, and the other needs formatting and rebuilding every couple of months.

What are we doing about it?
- First if it is the server , then this will be rectified by the new server we are moving to. It runs different software so hopefully problems will be overcome. If it is scripting then this will be rectified when we launch a new version of CuriousCash running NATS or MPA3 or similar product. I would expect this to happen in one to two months depending on integration time.

On top of this we are also working to a complete mirror setup of all of our sites including Curious Cash so if one Server goes down, hopefully the other will be up and take its place.

Webmaster Dan