I think Virtueverse died.

[Epelesker]

I was in the middle of venting to a friend about something not related to this and it compelled me to check out whether the character fan wikis are still running.

Ouroportal is up, and probably looks nicer than when I saw it last. On the other hand, Virtueverse gives me a plane text string which includes "server has gone away".

If I missed the bulletin on this, I'm sorry, but...this kinda stings right now.

[Aggelakis]

Looks like mySQL barfed up all the wikibits it was trying to hold together. Trying to find my contact information for Ransim (the owner). Don't know if they keep an eye on Titan (sent a PM anyway) - last time s/he was here was October.

[Epelesker]

Muchly appreciated, Agge.

[Felderburg]

Edit: I should've looked at the forums. It's a known issue: http://forum.virtueverse.net/index.php?topic=140.0

Further Edit: I should've checked the dates. The most recent is from this week, but the initial post is from February. So it's been going on a while, maybe.



It might just be the front page. A google search of "Virtueverse" brings up some articles, and they work fine for me:

http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Ascendant
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Xanatos
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Category:The_Challengers (A few test links from this page worked fine.)

All work for me. Clicking "Random Page" from one of them got me http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/The_Grey_Spector which, again, works just fine.

[Epelesker]

Yeah, going to one of those links then searching up for my User page worked fine, as did some of my other pages.

Maybe it's just the front page which is bonkers.

[ransim]

Hey, sorry to necro a thread I just saw a PM about this when I logged in to check something else.

As I promised before the game ended Virtueverse isn't going anywhere anytime soon short of something happening to me or the $70/month to host it becomes a problem, though in the second case I would warn everyone . I did have to take Union offline though because no one on their side was monitoring it and it was compromised, its waiting for me to have time to clean it up.

If anyone every sees a problem with virtueverse please email me ransim AT gmail.com or on twitter as @ransim. Work keeps me incredibly busy lately so I am not there every day, emails/tweets from users help me a lot.

The current issue is actually related to the server host, not the database, they've been experiencing major issues with their san since March. I'm in the process now of actually moving VV's files to a new server (the DB is on a separate hosting platform). But their san goes to shit and the cache for the home page that handles the recently updated list craps itself and breaks the landing page. Its also why the site has been slow as hell since March.