tickle theatre

[cletus]

Is it just me or is Tickle Theatre down since yesterday? Whenever I go to their website it just tries to load, but doesn't ever get to the actual site.

 

[Skinfan87]

There's been some Database problems there, the mods are working about it.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

From Yesterday (Thread got messed up):

As you probably notice we had some downtime this evening which was initially caused by a network switch hardware failure at the datacenter where the TTC servers are located. After that issue was resolved we come to find out the database tables had become corrupted, and to make matters worse the host provider never setup any backup for the new database server we had built for us.

So for now we're running on the latest backup available to us which is back from late March. I have the corrupted database still, and I will try to see if I can get it repaired properly. I am hoping for some luck with that, because if it cannot be repaired then we will just have to move forward with this and make the best of it.

I will post any updates regarding this matter to this thread so I will return the index.html page back to normal now.

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Update 05/30/2009:

I was able to open and look around the corrupted database and there is good and bad news. The bad news is that THREAD table which is responsible for showing the thread names obviously is empty. The USERS table also is practically empty as well which is why no one could log in last night. There are also other miscellaneous tables empty, but those are the two major ones missing.

The good news is that all the posts are still there in the database. The POST table contains information from both THREAD and USERS table. I believe if we can find a way to use this information from the POST table to regenerate the missing ones it should fix the site. However I am not a database expert, so I am looking for some professional guidance right now.

At the very least, I am working on grabbing the style file from the corrupted database to put on this backup. So there is some hope, but nothing is guaranteed yet. Please bear with us until this can get sorted.

I'm none too pleased. =/

 

[cletus]

Well I figured it wasn't my end of things, but at least now I have confirmation. Okay good. Sucks though.

 

[Deleted member 66627]

See here.

 

[gilmourwaters]

i just tried to re enter my user name and password there...it came up invalid..lol

 

[Lord Doctor]

Invalid page, though. It's not your user name or password.

I might be wrong, but I remember someone saying that tickle theatre tends to get a lot of attacks; hacks and shit.

 

[venray]

Posted on the front page at the moment.....


vBulletin Message
We are currently repairing the TTC database, and working on bringing the site back to a functional status. Thank you for your patience ahead of time as we deal with this issue.

-The TickleTheater Staff

 

[desdemona]

TT is hard at work trying to restore what he can 🙂 I'm sure he will update us or give us a progress report as things sort themselves out.

 

[TickleTheater]

I will be turning the site back on momentarily just as soon as I get done saving the backup database after setting it back up and updating it to a functioning status. Please be sure to read the posted Notice on the forum to get updated on the situation.