What happened to PPC Geeks?

[ebmorgan]

I've been getting 404s for the last hour. Are they maxed out? Down?

[ajk511]

we don't know yet.

[Tregrad]

same here it must be internal, maybe an update but they didnt announce it as far as i can tell or maybe they have a disgruntled admin LOL

[muyoso]

They were given a DMCA letter from Sprint lawyers for posting the 3.16 leaked firmware for the Sprint Mogul. They took the site down to clear out any and all of the dozens of links to the firmware.








Of course, that is purely speculation.

[ajk511]

They were given a DMCA letter from Sprint lawyers for posting the 3.16 leaked firmware for the Sprint Mogul. They took the site down to clear out any and all of the dozens of links to the firmware.








Of course, that is purely speculation.

Please do no make speculations like that with absolutely no knowledge of whats going on. I can assure you it is nothing like that. Don't worry folks. We will be back up soon.

[jackschitt28]

according to Big D, we set a record for users online today and I am sure that caused a crash. Mike will fix it

[ajk511]

according to Big D, we set a record for users online today and I am sure that caused a crash. Mike will fix it

haha, thats at least a good reason to crash. anyone talked to mike yet?

[dwizzy130]

haha, thats at least a good reason to crash. anyone talked to mike yet?
yup we did set a record today! last time i was able to view the page the record was 667 online today! im sure that is why its down.

[neodorian]

Running the board with unofficial leaked forum code ;)

[budney]

according to Big D, we set a record for users online today and I am sure that caused a crash. Mike will fix it

I am glad it's nothing too serious. I will be in SoCal the next few days so I will not be hogging as much space on the site as I normally do. :D

[perasite]

When running phpBB these problems were constant, even when there were only 125 or so users on. vBulletin has made a big difference, but the shared hosting is what is killing it. The host kills any db requests when the max memory or processor is hit, so the site gets killed. I'm sure Mike will get it back up soon, but those of us that love that site need to support him with $$$ so he can move to a non-shared host. His hosting service even has a new deal where you can adjust the amount of RAM and proc. you want (increasing and decreasing price accordingly) while staying on shared hosting. At least this way he can alleviate the problems without breaking the bank.

[pnyce777]

its amazing how addicting this stuff is i fell like i did when demonoid went down:eek: but ive just been going over the posts i need while working offline luckily i read through like evry post on the vista cube 2.0 :)

[Big D5]

We contacted wideawake yesterday and he says he is working on it, it was a busy day yesterday we hit a couple of high marks and overloaded the host a bit, wideawake wants everyone to know we are trying to get thing going again and PPCGeeks is very sorry for the inconvenience, we will have things up and going soon. My thanks to XDA for letting this thread stay open so we can let people know whats going on.

Dave~

[ebmorgan]

+1

Thanks XDA for letting us use your board to support the comminuty further.

[nautica2450]

Yeah it was absolutely crazy to see that many people on the site at once, and this was at like 2-3pm in the middle of the day when so many people were on. I was certain we were about to top 700! It was really good to see that much traffic.

And I echo the other posts thanking xda for letting us crash here for a while... it's like ppcgeeks is my flat in manhattan and xda is my summer getaway pad in the hamptons lol.

**Just to prove my point, this is my first post here but i've been a member for almost a year! lol

[MobileHackerC]

Excellent networking and development with these two boards :cool: Keep up the much appreciated good work! :cool:

[lsme420]

I'm not to sure if I believe this traffic excuse. I think Mikes dog keeps chewing through the servers power cord. Ha. But I to have to give credit to XDA for its relationship with the Geeks and allowing this tread to stay open So all of us lost souls know its not the end of the world and our home has just been closed up for a few days for (we'll say) pest control. Good lookin out XDA.

[delawaresace]

NNnnnooooo!!!!

so before ppcgeeks went down i downloaded the new (leaked) rom for my mogul. i ran it and generally liked it, but decided it was to flakely because i kept getting disconected from the net. i was just planing a test drive of it anyway because i finally wanted to try out that kitchen (by doguy i think his name is) and free up some room on my mogul. now though, no ppcgeeks:(

i guess i'll poke around my other "summer getaway" sites like sprintusers.com and here. THANKS XDA FOR HELPING ME WITH MY GEEK FIX

[ebmorgan]

I'm a little concerned now. Shouldn't take this long unless they are migrating platforms. I hope they didn't lose the database somehow.

[TorxT3D]

the site works randomly.. you gotta hit refresh like a bajillion times just to pull up a page. makes me think something else is going on.

[perasite]

What is happening wouldn't cause a lost database. It is caused by the host killing requests. Once they reach the threshold of what the host allows, the host then starts killing requests. It has happened before, but now PPCgeeks is much bigger, so fixing the problem is much harder.

[ebmorgan]

What is happening wouldn't cause a lost database. It is caused by the host killing requests. Once they reach the threshold of what the host allows, the host then starts killing requests. It has happened before, but now PPCgeeks is much bigger, so fixing the problem is much harder.

I know that. What I'm saying is that it's taking so long for the site to come back up that maybe they lost the database and aren't saying as they are trying to restore.

I have tons of knowledge and experience with DBs, hosts, web apps, etc....just FYI....:)

[edge23]

Yeah it was absolutely crazy to see that many people on the site at once, and this was at like 2-3pm in the middle of the day when so many people were on. I was certain we were about to top 700! It was really good to see that much traffic.

And I echo the other posts thanking xda for letting us crash here for a while... it's like ppcgeeks is my flat in manhattan and xda is my summer getaway pad in the hamptons lol.

**Just to prove my point, this is my first post here but i've been a member for almost a year! lol
haha, im pretty sure there are more like us.

[ebmorgan]

PPC Geeks is all F'd up again....:(

Doesn't load half the time, very slow, red-x on all graphics....nothing loads....503s fo days....

Anyone?:confused:

[perasite]

Same stuff... need dedicated but can only afford shared.

[TorxT3D]

i'll just chill here and HF until everythings resolved.

[ebmorgan]

It looks like there's a post on PPCG that says they are in the process of moving the site over to a dedicated Linux box!

Woot!

[wsparvis]

Same stuff... need dedicated but can only afford shared.


...and have repeatedly been offered free!

Looks like Mike finally decided that free was the best offer he was going to get and accepted it - yeah!

[TorxT3D]

now if only we could get linux on our phones...

[perasite]

Great news about the host! I haven't been able to get on to see that post, so if that is what is going on, then that is fantastic.

[budney]

Great news about the host! I haven't been able to get on to see that post, so if that is what is going on, then that is fantastic.

Yes it is! I was able to get on for a minute to read mikes post. :)

[milojax]

Still not working right... Cant wait til up and running again

[mariner_heart]

Still not working right... Cant wait til up and running again

the site is up again with new servers. enjoy!

[Pibe38]

the site is up again with new servers. enjoy!
That is correct, some minor issues until the propagation is finished and some bugs/glitches are fixed, but the site is back and FAST!

I agree as well and thank XDA for allowing this thread to stay open to allow the exchange of communication.

You ever wonder why we see the same people, mostly, on all the different boards? It's because of the community!

[aaronpoweruser]

its up now

[Artanis]

I know im not the only one looking. but I cant find anithing for ppcgeeks.
Whats going on. All i get is a database error. but thisis gone on for a while.:confused:

[gator2k83]

seems to be down again as of early morning 12:00am EST July first

[rstoyguy]

They have been having database issues for a couple weeks. Perhaps they will take the time and rebuild everything correctly. Time to go explore and see what xda has new to offer!

[guitardoc64]

Still down as of 7:45 CST. Wonder what's going on. I know they were having ftp issues with all the traffic generated by the new Vogue ROMs.

[Vol22002]

Does anyone has any clue whats going on with ppcgeeks? I've been trying to pull up ppcgeeks for 3 day's now with no luck.

[madsurfer1]

works fine for me

[denco7]

Does anyone has any clue whats going on with ppcgeeks? I've been trying to pull up ppcgeeks for 3 day's now with no luck.

It's ppcgeeks, not ppcgreeks.

The Greeks gave us a lot of history and culture, but not the smart phone :rolleyes:




P.S......is working for me :)

[Noiro]

LOL! Yeah, besides frequent design changes, all works wel.

[p3tr0s]

looks like it's down again :(

[Laos101]

looks like it's down again :(

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