Ascent News

I've gotten the new, new forums up and running from a backup version. You can access them from the "New Forums" link on the left or here.

It's important to realize that the backup version is a couple weeks old. So if you go to log on and you can't, you'll most likely need to create a new account.

I'll be working today to recreate some of the content on the forums that is missing. We should be back in operation with normal posting, though.

I worked on the forums last night but there are still two tables that are very unhappy. My understanding is at this point (based on the error codes) it's up to our host (Yahoo) to correct the issue. It's not something I can do on my end apparently. I sent them an email last night but haven't heard anything yet.

I've spent most of today exploring other hosting options. I have a moderately recent local backup of our forums, so I should be able to restore them into a new host's MySQL.

I'm sorry for the inconvienence this is causing everyone. The whole point of the new forums was to not have to deal with interruptions, etc.

If something comes up that you urgently need to speak to the officers about, there's a nice "Contact" link at the very bottom of this page. I check that email address very often.

Again, I'm sorry about all this. I'm working to fix things as fast as I can.

-Valyre

When I tried checking our forums this morning, I got an error. Refreshing doesn't seem to help. I've called customer support for the web hosting provider. Apparently they've been doing some MSQL upgrades and while the tech guy wasn't sure if that's exactly what's happened to our forums, it seems like the most likely reason.

So basically my ticket has been escaladed but it's hard to say when the issue will be fixed. Hopefully they'll be back up soon.