July 24th, 2010

About the service problems on July 18-24

Published at 11:16. Filed under English version; no comment so far.

Many users found that the 7Timer! service stopped updating since July 18 -- this is due to both the server and scripts upgrading, the service has been resumed on July 22. The server at the National Astronomical Observatories had been replaced with a better (and thus faster) one; while I am pleased to announce that with the precious help from Dr. Johnson Lau from Hong Kong, 7Timer! is now running in distributed-processing mode, which enable us to produce the output with less time. I will continue to revise the script code to further reduce the data process time.

But however I later received emails pointing about that the strange and unaccurate output of APanel, which allow me to discover a function switch from PHP 5.2 to 5.3, the function switch had produced unaccurate APanel output. A fix of the APanel script has been installed and will take effect since the next update (around 5h UTC today).

Thank you again for your support of 7Timer!