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spink
12-02-2014, 05:00 PM
Annnddd..... we're back!

HuntingBC.ca is over 10 years old and this is the longest outage that we've ever had. It's never our goal to deprive our loyal members of your (often too much) hunting chat, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

What happened?
Last Thursday I attempted to do some minor cleanup that resulted in lots of troubles. You could call it a snowball effect of sh*t rolling downhill. We had been on our old server for 7 years and things fell apart (with an uptime of just shy of 5 years). I had started putting together a plan to move to a new server and too all the necessary updates to accommodate the move, but with the failures, it had to happen right then. Part of this failure resulted in us losing about 2 days worth of data (if you're missing posts, messages, etc, that's why).

What's new?
Server and all associated software: this means speed improvements, some minor updates to the forum, and also new features in the gallery.

What's next?
For now, I will be spending the next few days watching these forums like a hawk and squashing bugs as I see them come up. Please let me know here if you see anything wrong. After Christmas, we will be putting together a long term plan for HBC for sustainability and feature improvements.

Thanks for being patient while we went through some "growing pains".

Spencer

kayjayess
12-02-2014, 05:53 PM
Nice job getting her back up

Whonnock Boy
12-02-2014, 05:54 PM
She's fast! :wink:

d6dan
12-02-2014, 05:55 PM
Good job Spink. :smile:

elknut
12-02-2014, 05:56 PM
Thanks ..It was a real pain before..You'll be eulogized for sure..And I did wonder who Spink was...LOL

wildthing
12-02-2014, 05:58 PM
thankyou for putting in the time and effort to keep this great site rolling :-P

avadad
12-02-2014, 06:13 PM
Thanks Spink!

Summit 512
12-02-2014, 06:21 PM
Glad your up and running again

300H&H
12-02-2014, 06:27 PM
All I can say is THANK YOU.

I am soooo tired of having to talk to my wife.

Hell, I even stated watching Gilligan's Island again. Mary Ann is hott.

islander7mm
12-02-2014, 06:29 PM
Thanks so much for all the hard work. It is very much appreciated.

Salty
12-02-2014, 06:33 PM
You da man spink! Thanks for all the trouble sounds like a pain glad we only lost a tiny bit :)

WesHarm
12-02-2014, 06:36 PM
Rocket ship speed achieved!!! Thanks Spink you da man!

Everett
12-02-2014, 06:44 PM
Good Job and she is fast even on my crap connection.

keoke
12-02-2014, 06:50 PM
I used up about 2 years worth of conversations with my wife in 2 days. Thank god HBC is back.

coach
12-02-2014, 06:56 PM
Great work, Spink!

Pangaea
12-02-2014, 06:56 PM
Thanks, spink! Nice and fast!

Mikey Rafiki
12-02-2014, 07:02 PM
And on the 179th click on the refresh button I'm in!

Thanks for the updates and effort put in. I hope this means long term stability and revenue security for the site.

srupp
12-02-2014, 07:11 PM
Hmmm thank you Spink..
Cheers
Steven

caddisguy
12-02-2014, 07:25 PM
If you ever get stuck on a glitch or need a hand let me know. I've been a sysadmin at a hosting company managing dedicated servers for 11 years and tinkering with this stuff long before that... php, apache, mysql, load balancing, debugging, scripting or whatever you need...I compile source packages in my sleep too.

Jagermeister
12-02-2014, 07:27 PM
Withdrawal symptoms are easing.:-D

headhunter2
12-02-2014, 07:44 PM
Thanks - Thanks - Thanks - My hand are slowly stopping to shake!

Canuck2
12-02-2014, 07:50 PM
Thanks for your dedication; I'll bet the process was hectic at times.

savage99f
12-02-2014, 07:54 PM
Thankyou for your time

luckofthedraw
12-02-2014, 07:56 PM
Thanks for bringing her back to life. That made for some seriously long night shifts.

Gr8 white hunter
12-02-2014, 07:58 PM
Welcome back ,great Job .

jeff341
12-02-2014, 08:02 PM
Woot woot

big ups.

thanks

Bugle M In
12-02-2014, 08:13 PM
All I can say is THANK YOU.

I am soooo tired of having to talk to my wife.

Hell, I even stated watching Gilligan's Island again. Mary Ann is hott.

Agreed....she's hot!!!:mrgreen:

Brno22F
12-02-2014, 08:22 PM
double thumbs up. Nice to have this site up and running again. Waaaaayyy faster now too.
Thanks for your efforts

spink
12-02-2014, 08:41 PM
Thanks everyone. :D
Glad to hear the reply/edit thing is working better too!


All I can say is THANK YOU.

I am soooo tired of having to talk to my wife.

Hell, I even stated watching Gilligan's Island again. Mary Ann is hott.

Classic beauty right there!

Salty
12-02-2014, 09:23 PM
Notice one thing spink and its a minor one... the little green arrow showing that you've posted on a thread doesn't always show it seems. Pretty sure it was working half hr ago. This was in mainland section

Ry151
12-02-2014, 10:06 PM
It was hard waiting but thank you for all your hard work!!

Hillbros_96
12-02-2014, 10:10 PM
Thank you, it is much faster

Ride Red
12-02-2014, 10:20 PM
Wow, I was in Shanghai last week without anything good to read. Glad we're up again, I was going through withdrawls.

Papa Sasquatch
12-02-2014, 10:36 PM
Thank you for your hard work. When you get a chance go to Timmies and get a well deserve cup of coffee. Tell them you know me! They wont but its a boost to my ego.

r106
12-02-2014, 10:42 PM
Thank you, Definitely faster. Great job

ActionJackson017
12-02-2014, 10:55 PM
Awesome job Spink! The site now moves at llllllluuuuuuudicrous speed!

Spy
12-03-2014, 12:57 AM
Holy smokes that was a long haul ! Thanks Spink

markomoose
12-03-2014, 03:05 AM
Great job Spink.It's ripping now.Now if you can just make it easier to post pics?

Stone Sheep Steve
12-03-2014, 08:16 AM
Thanks so much!!
I was even cutting my breaks short at work without HBC to read.

SSS

Philcott
12-03-2014, 08:23 AM
Good to see the site back up and running faster than ever. Thanks.

Drdoug
12-03-2014, 08:27 AM
Thanks a lot for a great site!

doug

blackwater moose
12-03-2014, 08:37 AM
you never really miss something until it is gone. great job on the new and improved HBC. proud to be a member

HuntNmemories
12-03-2014, 08:43 AM
Yup, I thank you too... I was going thru withdrawals as well

B-rad
12-03-2014, 09:35 AM
Wooooohooooo,,,,,glad it's up and going now,,,,,,had to go huntin and fishin to take up my boredom,,,,,,lol ��

nap
12-03-2014, 09:42 PM
Can we now just simply drag and drop or cut and paste pictures now??

Citori54
12-04-2014, 06:31 PM
Thanks for all of the hard work....got back from the late season deer hunt and no HBC....almost didn't survive the withdrawal.

Apolonius
12-05-2014, 08:38 AM
I don't know about all of you guys…..conspiracy theory…The site goes out before Black Friday…..hmmmm…..Spink goes out shopping,and when he is done shopping….the SITE is up.Give me a break mr spink.I hope you got me something nice.Lol

spink
12-05-2014, 05:26 PM
I don't know about all of you guys…..conspiracy theory…The site goes out before Black Friday…..hmmmm…..Spink goes out shopping,and when he is done shopping….the SITE is up.Give me a break mr spink.I hope you got me something nice.Lol
Haha, you guys crack me up!