ShipSpotting.com Forum
Shipspotters all over the world => Site related news, functions and modules => Topic started by: Henrik Soderberg on September 27, 2014, 09:24:12 AM
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Hi all,
It is now possible to log in and post in the forum.
Photographers - don't worry, your photos are safe =)
A bit of information about what is going on:
We had a server crash on the main web server. Unfortunately we weren't able to switch to the backup-system due to upgrades needed, which wasn't possible to perform without upgrading most of the third-party software we use. This all required larger upgrades for the whole system and rewriting a lot of site code.
As you know we increased redundancy and stability a lot the last years. Photos and data is secured, but we still have some things to do, to always be online in case something like this happens again. We will start working with this once everything is back online.
The photo upload and a few more features will be locked until we're sure they are stable. This to not risk messing anything up. Also the contact/email system will be locked until it's secured properly.
Obviously you have our deepest apologies for this!
Ken will keep you informed from now on.
Regards,
Henrik
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Thanks for all your efforts...
Regards, Brian (AKA The Pier Master)
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Looking forward to the reopening of the site.
Good luck
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Hey, I remember this place! I used to come for my daily charge of ships before the total blackout of the site! ;D
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To all involved:
No doubt the work involved in getting the site back up and running is tedious and unrewarding. May I offer up a big "thank you" for your efforts.
Clearly the site is a labor of love, and as new user, let me say how much I enjoy shipspotting and how much I appreciate the work that you put into it.
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finally
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Thanks for all your work Ken and Henrik
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Thanks for all your efforts and hard work, good luck in getting everything back up & stable again!
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Excellent work Ken and the IT team! Thank you for the great efforts put into the site's upkeep and rectification of this problem!
Shaun Smith Milne
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Just want to say a very special THANK YOU to all the team who do what seems to be a thankless job in the upkeep and running of this site.Keep up the good work.Kind regards.
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Great job Ken and the people who made this site back online! Thank you for your great efforts.
Rgds:Hannes.
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Lots of encouragement. We appreciate the efforts you guys do unselfishly.
We trust in your ability to restart the web at full capacity.
A big hug,
Vicente
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Site crash has obviously ended. Well done. Thanks. Regards Peter
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Thank's tech team for all your hard work and Ken for keeping us informed! :)
Cody
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well done the techies, much appreciated
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Well done to all concerned. Glad to have the site back.
Best wishes
Barry
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Thanks Ken and Hendrik and I am sure there are others involved in this remedy for the great September ShipSpotting Shutdown.
Looking forward to being able to post pics on the site.
Once again A Big Thank You to all involved.
Emmanuel .L
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Great to have Shipspotting back, but I think it would be nice if Shipspotting could start sending out an email/newsletter with some information to all members when something major happens to the site.
Brgds,
Geir
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Looking forward when site is fully up again. Thanks for your work.
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Much missed over recent days and very glad to have the service back. Thanks to all concerned.
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Dealing with such site issues never easy. I'm sure it's been a frustrating fortnight for the folks at Shipspotting.com. Thanks to Ken & his team (i.e. tech crew, etc) for their efforts in getting site on-line again. Looking forward to when fully operational.
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Good morning
I am a new member so sorry if the answer is obvious. I have tried to get onto AIS but no ships are showing. Am I doing something wrong? is this something to do with the crash
thanks for any info
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Hi Ken
Thanks for all the hard work you and the team are doing in regards of the CRASH! I hope it's up and running soon.
Best wishes
Gordon
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Hi Ken. Thanks for all the hard work ( extensive to the tech. crew and fellow site administrators ) to get all solved. Its not easy to deal with a mega crash like this one. Hope everything backs to normal.
Thanks again.
MBregards.
ventuari
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Great to have Shipspotting back, but I think it would be nice if Shipspotting could start sending out an email/newsletter with some information to all members when something major happens to the site.
First of all, many thanks to the techie team for the hard work during these days of blackout and hardship. Certainly far from being an easy task to keep the site up and running again, I am sure. Please receive my sincerest sympathy and appreciation for all you efforts.
Certainly having the SS website down has been hard to endure on a daily basis, when one is accustomed to using it as a sounding board, and as a source of pleasure and motivation to tackle the chores of daily life.
Regarding the quoted sentence above, I think it raises an interesting perspective, and maybe it provides some food for thought. Maybe in the future SS should consider diversifying a little bit, and perhaps use an alternate channel for passing along key messages to members at large, and to its many followers from around the world. And, at the same time, raise interest on its institutional services, and promote their uniqueness.
So, and this is only a suggestion, why not opening up an institutional page on a social network (Facebook, for instance), where key messages could be conveyed in alternative, and in parallel, to the service provided by the database (i.e., the main institutional SS website we all know about). Wouldn't it be an attention catcher and a magnet to the main website, drawing new publics to it?
Here I leave this suggestion for the consideration of the SS Administration.
Best regards,
(and quoting Kurt Vonnegut in the best-seller "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "...and thanks for all the fish!")
Jose
(jdap)
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Please come back up soon.
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Good morning
I am a new member so sorry if the answer is obvious. I have tried to get onto AIS but no ships are showing. Am I doing something wrong? is this something to do with the crash
thanks for any info
also try www.vesselfinder.com as marinetraffic dont always show all areas i have found out.
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Good Luck with bringing back this website. Any idea when photos and vids can be posted again???? ??? ??? ???