Forum outage resolved

[The Corparation]

This is what happens when Max Barry uses eSecureData for web hosting. Honestly, just use OVH or Digital Ocean.

Its not a web hosting issue, its a "We never thought they'd make that many posts when we made the forum" issue.

[Uieurnthlaal]

So this has nothing to do with the mass TG everybody got earlier?

I never got a mass TG. :/

Why didn't I get your mass TG? I'm in your ...

OK. There's no way I'm going on with this. For the sake of my sanity, and that of everyone else on NSG.

[Esternial]

The amount of outrage and madness is proportional to what one would expect to have when running out of toilet paper when you're on the toilet.

Thus, as logic dictates: NS is a toilet.

[The Blaatschapen]

The amount of outrage and madness is proportional to what one would expect to have when running out of toilet paper when you're on the toilet.

Thus, as logic dictates: NS is a toilet.

*flushes you*

[Jolthig]

The amount of outrage and madness is proportional to what one would expect to have when running out of toilet paper when you're on the toilet.

Thus, as logic dictates: NS is a toilet.

*flushes you*

[San Leggera]

The amount of outrage and madness is proportional to what one would expect to have when running out of toilet paper when you're on the toilet.

Thus, as logic dictates: NS is a toilet.

It's been that way since its advent.

[Topid]

I would like to know how Max intends to make up for the damaging effects of the sunlight, which some of us had to experience because of this?

[Horusland]

Am I the only one who didn't get worried at all?
We're lucky to have such great mods, technicians, etc.

[Bezombia]

The servers you're posting on have only been around for 4 years.

Are we still on the same servers? Or have they been changed?

They were changed four years ago.

[Esternial]

The amount of outrage and madness is proportional to what one would expect to have when running out of toilet paper when you're on the toilet.

Thus, as logic dictates: NS is a toilet.

*flushes you*

Four of a kind, I win.

[The Blaatschapen]

*flushes you*

Four of a kind, I win.

Banhammer, I win.

[Esternial]

Four of a kind, I win.

Banhammer, I win.

You're a sore loser, sheep.

[United Islands of the Pacific]

Am I the only one who didn't get worried at all?
We're lucky to have such great mods, technicians, etc.

I didn't know anything was wrong.

[Great Nepal]

What happens when someone makes the 18,446,744,073,709,551,615th post and you can't go any higher? Do you just call it quits and start Nationstates 2 again?

Assuming linear growth, that is 288,230,375 years from now. I would be pretty disappointed if we still relied on internet rather than using some kind of neurological links to play NS.

[Coffee Cakes]

Banhammer, I win.

You're a sore loser, sheep.

just shear him.

[Frisbeeteria]

Are we still on the same servers? Or have they been changed?

They were changed four years ago.

I think we have actually migrated to new hardware a couple of times since the 2009 Jolt move. Moore's Law keeps making hardware faster and cheaper, and the admin team have taken advantage of that fact. We can actually get a 64GB machine for less than we're currently paying for a 16GB machine. We're just waiting for a migration window.

[United Islands of the Pacific]

What happens when someone makes the 18,446,744,073,709,551,615th post and you can't go any higher? Do you just call it quits and start Nationstates 2 again?

Assuming linear growth, that is 288,230,375 years from now. I would be pretty disappointed if we still relied on internet rather than using some kind of neurological links to play NS.

We'd be way more advanced than that. We'd probably be able to retreat into our brain, an alternate reality, or something like that to use the internet. Come to think of it, would we still exist? And there wouldn't be any post limits, that's for sure.

[YellowApple]

The forumla is actually very simple.

So it took four years to get to roughly 16777215. That comes out to an average of roughly 4,194,303 post per year. In order to get to 4294967295, it would take almost EXACTLY 1,024 (one thousand twenty four) years.

Nationstates has been around for 10 years. Has this happened before?

The NS forums have moved around a couple times; I believe it's roughly the four-year mark since we hopped off of Jolt.

The amount of outrage and madness is proportional to what one would expect to have when running out of toilet paper when you're on the toilet.

Thus, as logic dictates: NS is a toilet.

So it's full of crap?

This is what happens when Max Barry uses eSecureData for web hosting. Honestly, just use OVH or Digital Ocean.

That likely has zero to do with the issue, considering the issue was (I reckon) with phpBB's implementation of the 'post_id' field in its database and/or with the database server software itself, neither of which is necessarily dependent on who's hosting the server.

That's assuming it's linear, which it probably isn't.

The moderation staff has already confirmed that it is.

For now, at least.

[Horusland]

Am I the only one who didn't get worried at all?
We're lucky to have such great mods, technicians, etc.

I didn't know anything was wrong.

Yes, but I know there was at least one person that panicked. Blekky (best friend here) TGd me 6 times in 10 minutes saying that he can't live without NS.

[Leningrad Union]

This is what happens when Max Barry uses eSecureData for web hosting. Honestly, just use OVH or Digital Ocean.

Its not a web hosting issue, its a "We never thought they'd make that many posts when we made the forum" issue.

Alrighty. Should there be a forum reset?

[The Corparation]

Its not a web hosting issue, its a "We never thought they'd make that many posts when we made the forum" issue.

Alrighty. Should there be a forum reset?

Have you read this thread at all? They changed the limit to how many posts there are.

[Luziyca]

Its not a web hosting issue, its a "We never thought they'd make that many posts when we made the forum" issue.

Alrighty. Should there be a forum reset?

No, because it'd lead to the Loss of Childhood Effect: a decrease in activity of ALL forum members. Also, we changed the limit to four billion.

[SalusaSecondus]

Its not a web hosting issue, its a "We never thought they'd make that many posts when we made the forum" issue.

Alrighty. Should there be a forum reset?

No need. We just bumped up the size of the column from 3 to 4 bytes. If we were to come close to it again (highly unlikely) we can bump it up to 8 bytes. We'll never hit that limit.

[Frisbeeteria]

Did it have anything to do with that mass-TG that was sent out to roughly 110,000 nations?

Here's the funny thing about databases. That mass mailing took up a grand total of ONE telegram ID. That's not what's causing the TG database to skyrocket.

"Ohai"
"Are you on yet"
"C'mon, are you not home from school?"
"I need the notes from history"
"Answer me, damn you"
<I'm here now>
<gimme a sec, I need a poptart>
"lol"
"get me one"
<get your own>
... and so on, literally for days at a time, each pointless exchange using a TGID of its own

[Bezombia]

Alrighty. Should there be a forum reset?

No need. We just bumped up the size of the column from 3 to 4 bytes. If we were to come close to it again (highly unlikely) we can bump it up to 8 bytes. We'll never hit that limit.

oh my god

it's salusa secondus


this truely is a momentous occasion

*grovels*

I've never seen you post before...