[Itchy]

Hello MabiGuru members,

We extremely apologize for the recent downtimes happening here at MabiGuru. There is a serious hardware failure going on with our current host. They are doing their best to fix that right now and everything should be back to stable in no time.

After this disastrous, almost 24-hour downtime, MabiGuru will be moving to a bigger hosting service to accommodate our growing needs and also to prevent downtimes like this in the future.

In the meantime, please don't hesitate to visit our IRC and chat away with other MG members.

~Itchy

[TofuCakee]

Its ok itchy we understand things happen sometimes.

thank you fo rfixing things.

[Hark]

From what I can tell, it looks like their DNS servers are falling apart. (EDIT: Actually, looking at the status monitor it looks like the server (MabiGuru is on Olga) is just being raped...) You (ie, the person reading this) can fix it temporarily by adding the following line to your hosts file -

64.22.82.198 www.mabiguru.com mabiguru.com

If you don't know what the hosts file is, I can't recommend changing it. Also, you'll need to remove the line once it stops working (ie, Itchy changes hosts), but for the most part, it's been getting the job done for me (fixes the DNS issue, not the database errors).

Also, Itchy, if you haven't already selected a new host, I figure I'll throw in a recommendation for DreamHost -- they're doing a special right now -- for $110/year (discounts available for longer terms) they'll give you 500GB of disk space and 5TB/month bandwidth (in addition to SSH access, unlimited MySQL databases, basically everything you need, etc).

I've had a couple issues in the past with their filers breaking on me, but I suspect it was because I was being a bit naughty on their machines. Other than that, it's been pretty supurb service overall.

EDIT: lol I just saw this. Server rapeage is because they're rebuilding a RAID array. What a nightmare :P

[Bakuryu]

thanks itchy for telling us.
i did the hosts change for now, :P. thanks hark for pointing that out.

[kitaek27]

Its because I am here. I'm usually followed by DREADED luck. XP

[Yoshi]

Now it works perfect good job on fixing it Itchy

[Itchy]

MabiGuru will be transferring to a new server later at the wee hours of the morning (2-3AM PST).

[enchantedstargazer]

Does this have anything to do with why I can't get the IRC to work???

[Jax]

Fortunately I missed this, but I'm glad that its back up.

[Bancho]

Yesterday I was like "WTF?", but everything seems to be okay now. Let´s keep it that way ^-^.