Maintenance (Read Only) Th 4 Oct 2007 @ 10:00pm - 03:00am PDT

Wireless · October 2, 2007

Hello,

We will be performing work during our regularly scheduled Maintenance Window this Thursday night. We hope that there won't be any impact, however there might be an instance in which we need to place the site into read-only mode. If things go really haywire, we may have to take the site offline while we fix it. Hopefully things will go smoothly, and you won't even notice!

Progress will be posted in this thread during the window. Sorry for any inconvenience!

(We're going to be working on our master databases!)

DJ-S1 · October 3, 2007

You mean 4 Oct?

Belg · October 3, 2007

Thanks for the heads up...

Andy · October 3, 2007

DJ-S1 wrote:

You mean 4 Oct?

Fixed - thanks.

BigAl · October 4, 2007

Andy wrote:

Fixed - thanks.

Not

Again to the powers that be, can we have times that refer to GMT - I still have no idea what PDT is.

MikeC · October 4, 2007

International Options
Thanks for the notice guys - any chance you could put a slightly more universal timestamp on this thing - such as UTC or GMT. I'm in Australia and I'm not entirely sure which of the US timezones this is going to occur during, though most people should be able to work out where they are relative to GMT/UTC.

Cheers !

Mike

habanr · October 4, 2007

I have to agree with BigAl and MikeC if you want to be the international photographic site please use GMT or UTC.

ivar · October 4, 2007

The maintenance window will be from 05.00 UTC/Zulu Friday Oct 5:

to 10.00 UTC/Zulu Friday Oct 5:

Andy · October 4, 2007

BigAl wrote:

Not

Again to the powers that be, can we have times that refer to GMT - I still have no idea what PDT is.

MikeC wrote:

Thanks for the notice guys - any chance you could put a slightly more universal timestamp on this thing - such as UTC or GMT. I'm in Australia and I'm not entirely sure which of the US timezones this is going to occur during, though most people should be able to work out where they are relative to GMT/UTC.

Cheers !

Mike

habanr wrote:

I have to agree with BigAl and MikeC if you want to be the international photographic site please use GMT or UTC.

if you click through to the sticky post, which describes our reserved maintenance window, for Thursdays, you can see a time chart. I've had it there for nearly a year or maybe more? Is that useful?

BigAl · October 5, 2007

Andy wrote:

if you click through to the sticky post, which describes our reserved maintenance window, for Thursdays, you can see a time chart. I've had it there for nearly a year or maybe more? Is that useful?

That could help, but then whoever puts up the maintenance post could also look there and add GMT to the post...

Wireless · October 5, 2007

Here we go folks. We'll be in Read-only mode for now, hopefully will be fast. Check back here for updates.

methd · October 5, 2007

I get this message:

The wizards of Smug are adding new magic tonight, so we're in window shopping mode. You can view all the photos you like, but for a few minutes we're unable to sell prints or take new photos or comments. Stay tuned! The SmugMug team

So how do i go into 'read only' mode (look at my photos)... is there a button to click?, as everything leads back to this window.

Allen · October 5, 2007

methd wrote:

I get this message:

The wizards of Smug are adding new magic tonight, so we're in window shopping mode. You can view all the photos you like, but for a few minutes we're unable to sell prints or take new photos or comments. Stay tuned! The SmugMug team

So how do i go into 'read only' mode (look at my photos)... is there a button to click?, as everything leads back to this window.

Try your nickname.smugmug.com, looks like domains not working right now.

binghott · October 5, 2007

how do i always get stuck trying to upload something during the late night maintenance?!:cry

i can't wait to see what's new!

SloYerRoll · October 5, 2007

Is this the reason I can't log in through FF or IE?

Probably is. But I've had this problem before of not being able to log in. I can't recreate the situation though..

-Jon

devbobo · October 5, 2007

SloYerRoll wrote:

Is this the reason I can't log in through FF or IE?

Probably is. But I've had this problem before of not being able to log in. I can't recreate the situation though..

-Jon

yes, we are currently in read-only mode.. which basically disables logged in sessions

Matthew Saville · October 5, 2007

SloYerRoll wrote:

Is this the reason I can't log in through FF or IE?

Probably is. But I've had this problem before of not being able to log in. I can't recreate the situation though..

-Jon

Maybe they're tweaking the control panel a little more? I dunno. Glad I don't have to batch upload tonight!

And even so, Smugmug in general is wayyyy cooler and easier than FTP-ing my images to a host and then logging in and trying to find them, or worse having to "notify" a gallery host that I FTP'd them... Call me old-fashioned, but I like to go online to upload photos, I like drag-and-drop, and I like to sit there and watch them upload. Okay I like to sit there and watch the first image upload, then I get up and go do something else lol.

=Matt=

Dna · October 5, 2007

Well that was quick. Looks like it all back up...

Now to start uploading again ...

Andrew

Wireless · October 5, 2007

All done, thanks for your patience folks!

(lots of under-the-hood stuff with our database infrastructure tonight)

BigAl · October 5, 2007

Wireless wrote:

All done, thanks for your patience folks!

(lots of under-the-hood stuff with our database infrastructure tonight)

Great!

Just as a matter of interest, were stats and thumbs up/down also disabled during the maintenance?

cabbey · October 5, 2007

BigAl wrote:

Great!

Just as a matter of interest, were stats and thumbs up/down also disabled during the maintenance?

I'm pretty sure photorank (thumbs up/down) voting goes away when they flip the big "read only" switch.

devbobo · October 6, 2007

cabbey wrote:

I'm pretty sure photorank (thumbs up/down) voting goes away when they flip the big "read only" switch.

yeah since it's read only, I believe there is no db write access at all.

Maintenance (Read Only) Th 4 Oct 2007 @ 10:00pm - 03:00am PDT

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