• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

BREAKING NEWS -- Stormtrack is on a new server

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As of May 30, 2010 Stormtrack is currently on a new server at 64.150.187.170; this is an Intel Core i7 server, which is a big step up from the old Celeron we used from 2004 to 2010. This should help a lot with the slowdowns on big chase days.

Here a chronology of how this all went down.
5:30 pm CDT: Froze the old server and suspended the forum. Ran backups and FTPd 500 MB of files and SQL backups across to the new server.
7:00 pm CDT: Did configuring on the new server and set up DNS. Found that DNS will actually take hours or days to reconfigure and propagate across the Internet.
8:00 pm CDT: Restored all files and SQL.
8:30 pm CDT: Started making a few posts, immediately ran into some SQL "Duplicate Entry For Key" errors. Started doing some tests. Found the backup did not include auto-increment information.
9:00 pm CDT: Deleted the database and recreated it. Reinstalled database from evening backup, ran vbulletin fix for indexes. Errors seemed to go away.
8:00 am CDT Sunday: Found some problems in the Admin panels and the "thanks" buttons did not work (and were even missing). Spent a couple of hours doing testing and identified auto-increment data as missing from the SQL dump transfer.
10:55 am CDT Sunday: Restored from last night's backup with auto-increment data intact and brought the board back online.

Thanks for your patience with this move. We did lose some messages overnight and this morning due to the rollback, and I apologize for this, but it was necessary to get the site working and so that we didn't move forward on a potentially corrupt database. It does appear things are working correctly now.

Tim
 
Hi Tim,

When viewing this post, I get the following error where a banner most likely should go:

This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://bn.xp1.ru4.com/nf?_pnot=0&_tpc=

...SNIPPED BECAUSE OF AN ACCOUNT ID...

might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

Here are some suggestions:
Reload this web page later.
More information on this error
 
It was this post, actually. It was fixed within an hour of my posting here so I just assumed you fixed it. Maybe it was a risidual DNS lookup error? I don't know off hand, but it's fixed now.
 
Thank you for the new server. So far I haven't found any bugs or anything. Nice to have the search functions back again also.
 
Another +1 here Tim. This was a much needed upgrade and the return of the "New Posts" and "Search" functions made this forum usable for me again. A huge thank you!
 
I have noticed a big improvement in the time it takes a page to load and overall it seems much snappier now. Excellent work Tim!
 
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