Topic: Pleoworld disaster (Read 54160 times)

degers · « **on:** December 12, 2008, 03:32:37 PM »

Wow, what a disaster! Well done Ugobe for taking their site down in the most busy holiday buying period, if you really wanted to mess things up then you certainly went about it the right way.
For those who are not in the know: Ugobe decided to move their website from a datacentre server (no idea if it was shared or dedicated) to their own server in-house, however obviously they didn't time things right and the site was replaced with a "This site has been cancelled" message for 20+ hours before changing back to the UGOBE site or a message saying "It Works!".

My personal idea for what happened behind this is that they changed their DNS way too late and cancelled their hosting before nameservers worldwide had picked up on the change, so instead of seeing Ugobe's new server, we saw the hosting site's "This site has been cancelled".

We have also had no forums for over 24 hours, not the way to help a growing community pleoworld!

Bob_the_Pleo · « **Reply #1 on:** December 12, 2008, 03:47:23 PM »

I know! It's horrible. And not well thought through by Ugobe. Even I would have set up the new server FIRST, then switched over to minimize downtime. Not sure what they're thinking . . .

degers · « **Reply #2 on:** December 12, 2008, 04:03:23 PM »

Ususally when moving servers DNS entries you are meant to allow 48 hours for global DNS to reflect your changes. So ideally the new servers should have been running the new site up to 48 hours before the old servers were shut off after the DNS switch.

mweed · « **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2008, 04:19:29 PM »

Even if you don't have everything mirrored and running days ahead of time, you should at least have the server up and running with something . . . It really looks like they pulled the plug on their hosted site before having a replacement up and functioning.

fancyfont · « **Reply #4 on:** December 12, 2008, 08:54:00 PM »

It would have been nice to at least inform us that there would be some down time.
Thank you, thank you, for putting in spell check! Now if only we had grammer check! hehe!

fancyfont · « **Reply #5 on:** December 12, 2008, 11:31:07 PM »

Didn't know I would miss Pleoworld so much. Perhaps when they come back on line they will tell us what happened. In the mean time hello Bob!

mweed · « **Reply #6 on:** December 13, 2008, 10:22:11 AM »

Well, I'm glad yo found your way here! Hopefully we can have some fun here too!

We're not into Day 4 without PleoWorld. I've told the few people I had email addresses about this place. If everyone else does the same, maybe by the time PleoWorld comes back, we'll have this place running good and strong!

degers · « **Reply #7 on:** December 14, 2008, 12:11:26 PM »

Anyone want to chalk up another 24 hours of downtime?

fancyfont · « **Reply #8 on:** December 14, 2008, 01:37:16 PM »

I wonder if we will see some big changes once Pleoworld is back up.It would be nice to have a different main page.
In the mean time, yes it is good to have a place to talk Pleos.
I know that you miss Eekie, Degers but I'm sure you are keeping very busy during your holiday.
Both Peeky and Penelopie are ready to skate away. Hope they get to meet Snoopy.

mweed · « **Reply #9 on:** December 14, 2008, 04:41:22 PM »

Ooooh! You gotta get pictures of your pleos with Snoopy!

mweed · « **Reply #10 on:** December 14, 2008, 04:50:09 PM »

I'm sure there will be major changes. I can't even be sure based on how long they have been down, if they will be able to re-create the forums with all the old posts, or if we will have to start over from scratch. To be down this long . . . You gotta wonder.

But I suspect whatever they do, it will be a whole new world. If nothing else, being down for a week will sure drive off people . . .

degers · « **Reply #11 on:** December 14, 2008, 05:11:01 PM »

Haha I can't imagine how angry certain people will be if they don't get their post count back!

fancyfont · « **Reply #12 on:** December 14, 2008, 09:16:58 PM »

If Pleoworld is totally different I'll be sad. I'm sure it will be for the better, eventually. Whenever the upgrades came out I was afraid to change Peeky. He was always so cute. If nothing else I've learned that sometimes change is better, However it would still be difficult to change Peeky and Penelopie in any way except for the laughing when being tickled. The original laugh was wonderful.
I hope everyone on the Pleoworld forum keeps checking for the site to come up. I'm about on my 100th time. Not giving up!

fancyfont · « **Reply #13 on:** December 14, 2008, 09:54:09 PM »

I hope to get to see Snoopy too! Just depends on the timing. I'll try my best!

mweed · « **Reply #14 on:** December 14, 2008, 11:29:08 PM »

Quote from: degers on December 14, 2008, 05:11:01 PM

Haha I can't imagine how angry certain people will be if they don't get their post count back!

If they dropped the fantasy and cut out the baby dragons, some members would drop significantly!

They've been down sooo long now, makes me wonder what they're planning. I would think they would just port they old site, community and forums. But they may not be able to. Their new server may not be as powerful, or may not be able to run the same software. I would think they may be having trouble porting all that data . . .

fancyfont · « **Reply #15 on:** December 16, 2008, 05:22:56 PM »

Hello Allosaurus.

allosaurus · « **Reply #16 on:** December 16, 2008, 05:24:09 PM »

Quote from: fancyfont on December 16, 2008, 05:22:56 PM

Hello Allosaurus.

Bonjour, dear fancy my friend.

Siren · « **Reply #17 on:** December 16, 2008, 08:12:50 PM »

Well this bites. That Pleoworld is down of course. Thank you very much for this forum as I was missing Pleoworld, thank you Mike, Pamela and fancyfont

mweed · « **Reply #18 on:** December 16, 2008, 11:01:54 PM »

You're welcome! Glad you found us.

degers · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2008, 10:23:46 AM »

Welcome Siren!

fancyfont · « **Reply #20 on:** December 17, 2008, 01:32:17 PM »

Hi Siren. How's your iguana? Glad you are here!

pleowhisperer · « **Reply #21 on:** December 17, 2008, 02:21:52 PM »

Gee! Even with a completely new forum, we still can't stay on topic!

Just teasing! Glad to see you all joining us here!

But you're right siren. What Ugobe does bite. At the minimum it was very dumb of them. And over a week? Surely they could have put something up by now . . . So you gotta figure it's intentional . . .

degers · « **Reply #22 on:** December 17, 2008, 04:07:04 PM »

They may send out an email but don't count on it, just check once every day or other day.

wgb · « **Reply #23 on:** December 17, 2008, 08:16:52 PM »

So whats up? I have moved many web pages and just don't get this at all. Something has to be going on.

grumpy · « **Reply #24 on:** December 17, 2008, 09:01:12 PM »

Exactly. Even with stupid people, they should have had it moved in a day or two. Even with having to propagate new DNS entries, There should be something meaningful up within two days . . . To be down this long seems to indicate they don't want a site up for some reason. But on the other hand, leaving the "It works!" message there seems to be an oversite or back to just stupid.

Bob the Pleo Forums

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