August 23rd, 2009

Service down on Aug. 21-23

Published at 10:05. Filed under English version; no comment so far.

Due to a server problem, the 7Timer! site was down again on Aug. 21-23. This problem was caused by inappropriate operation of another user on the server which finally led to extremely heavy workload and unavailability of the server. There is no evidence that the recently-made upgrade has caused the core dump.

Because of the occasional instability of the shared machine ("Cosmostation", firstly opened in 2002, is a free web space server provided by NAOC for amateur astronomers and organizations) and the popularize of 7Timer! (which had increased the workload of the machine), the administrator of National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) has just purposed to move 7Timer! to an independent machine. This operation shall minimum the chance for 7Timer! to be affected by unintented operations and shall be done in near future. I'll keep you tuned about this.

Sorry again for the inconvenience.