HCWiki and FBSAWiki Downtime

[Michiyo]

Hello all!  As some of you may know, the Pacific North West of the United States is currently going through a record setting heatwave.  Unfortunately the webserver that runs the HCWiki and FBSAWiki (And a lot of other stuff 😞 ) Runs in my garage, hardware failure is quoted @ 47c / 116f and it's currently 110 in my garage.  I've shut the severs that run everything down to avoid damage.  I hope to get the servers back up tomorrow, but that 100% depends on the heat.  Sorry for the downtime, I hope you all understand.

[RikOz]

Yikes! Yeah, it's currently 109F where I am in eastern WA.

[lemming]

Yea, I'm in Portland.  We just dropped to 107 so it's cooling off for the evening!

Do what you need to.

[Lazarillo]

Friggin' ouch.  Take care of yourself, too!

Also, what's FBSAWiki?

[First Player]

27 minutes ago, Lazarillo said:

Friggin' ouch.  Take care of yourself, too!

Also, what's FBSAWiki?

It’s sort of like a wiki where players can make pages fit their characters. Basically an updated version of the old VirtueVerse site.

[RagManX1]

29 minutes ago, Lazarillo said:

Friggin' ouch.  Take care of yourself, too!

Also, what's FBSAWiki?

I had to look it up. It stands for the "Federal Bureau of Superpowered Affairs" and is apparently a section of the HCWiki for personal bios I think from what I'm reading about it.

[huang3721]

I love hot weather (90F here from New Year to Christmas), but I certainly won't survive 110F. Stay safe, guys. 

[GM Kal]

Yep the FBSA is mentioned in game a good amount.

And thank you for what you do Michiyo!

[Snarky]

10 hours ago, lemming said:

Yea, I'm in Portland.  We just dropped to 107 so it's cooling off for the evening!

Do what you need to.

I'm in Portland.  Supposed to get 111 today.  I work outside.  Well, a good deal outside, I schlep a truck around town.  I am stunned by how hot it is.  

 

Thanks Michiyo to you and your garage.  Protect our Encyclopedia!  (and yourself, stay cool)

 

edit:  now I have seen reports of it getting 116-118 here.  WTF people?

Edited June 28, 2021 by Snarky

[Shenanigunner]

3 hours ago, Snarky said:

I'm in Portland.  Supposed to get 111 today.

 

edit:  now I have seen reports of it getting 116-118 here.  WTF people?

 

I guess news reaches the PNW on a delayed schedule. 🙂

[Arbegla]

3 hours ago, Snarky said:

I'm in Portland.  Supposed to get 111 today.  I work outside.  Well, a good deal outside, I schlep a truck around town.  I am stunned by how hot it is.  

 

Thanks Michiyo to you and your garage.  Protect our Encyclopedia!  (and yourself, stay cool)

 

edit:  now I have seen reports of it getting 116-118 here.  WTF people?

 

Welcome to New Mexico Weather. We're not sorry that you're experiencing our weather, while we get yours (its a nice balmy 74 and overcast today in Northern New Mexico)

[Yomo Kimyata]

@Michiyo thanks for hosting it at all, and thank you to the people who contribute to it.  It is a true fount of knowledge!

[Michiyo]

Hello all, thank you for all of the support!   The Wikis are back up for now, but temps are looking to be roughly the same as yesterday, so I may have to take stuff back down again this afternoon.

[lemming]

5 hours ago, Snarky said:

I'm in Portland.  Supposed to get 111 today.  I work outside.  Well, a good deal outside, I schlep a truck around town.  I am stunned by how hot it is.  

 

Thanks Michiyo to you and your garage.  Protect our Encyclopedia!  (and yourself, stay cool)

 

edit:  now I have seen reports of it getting 116-118 here.  WTF people?

Stay hydrated!   I have the advantage that I do have A/C and don't have to go out today except in emergency.

All the heat of the desert SW and fortunately only 1/2 the humidity of New Orleans.

And a low percentage of people with A/C.  

[Arbegla]

25 minutes ago, lemming said:

And a low percentage of people with A/C.  

 

This is the worst part. I didn't realize that A/C isn't really a thing on the upper North West states, as its literally against the law to NOT have an A/C unit in New Mexico.

[lemming]

3 minutes ago, Arbegla said:

 

This is the worst part. I didn't realize that A/C isn't really a thing on the upper North West states, as its literally against the law to NOT have an A/C unit in New Mexico.

Yea.  I moved up here in 1998, we didn't have A/C, didn't need it.

We moved down to Utah for 11 years and came back in 2016, had a tiny house built with A/C since we intended to travel.  Decided to stay in PDX.

It's definitely warmer here than it used to be.

[Shenanigunner]

1 hour ago, Arbegla said:

This is the worst part. I didn't realize that A/C isn't really a thing on the upper North West states, as its literally against the law to NOT have an A/C unit in New Mexico.

 

Unfortunately, the Seattle/Portland axis prides themselves on not having AC. Which is good in terms of power consumption, greenieness, etc. but means no way to keep cool on even normally warm days. And now...

 

And yes, Denver seems to be borrowing PNW weather. Cool, gray, rainy, a few warm sunny patches but then back to rain and thunderstorms and coolth. Weird.

[Tailcoat]

Is it still down? When I go there, it says 

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

---

Apache Server at hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev Port 443

[Michiyo]

Back down while I migrate it to a new server, not in my superheated garage.

[Greycat]

Pfft. Just fill a tub with cold water and put them in there! Water cooling's a thing, right?

 

>.>

 

(And yeah, thanks for hosting...)

[Michiyo]

Ok, so the Wikis have been migrated over to a VPS.  And my local hardware has been shutdown.  Sadly I think I blew a 5volt regulator on the motherboard, but will need to dig more.   The Wikis are however now safe in a nicely cooled Datacenter.

 

Thank you all!

[CursedSorcerer]

13 hours ago, Arbegla said:

 

Welcome to New Mexico Weather. We're not sorry that you're experiencing our weather, while we get yours (its a nice balmy 74 and overcast today in Northern New Mexico)

Oh, I have a saying here. Welcome to Arizona; if you don't like it, you can move to Siberia. Seriously, it's 10:20 and it's 120 degrees.

[Snarky]

7 hours ago, CursedSorcerer said:

Oh, I have a saying here. Welcome to Arizona; if you don't like it, you can move to Siberia. Seriously, it's 10:20 and it's 120 degrees.

That is not weather.  That is hate.

[DoctorDitko]

Do you need a kick-in for hosting fees?

[srmalloy]

14 hours ago, CursedSorcerer said:

Oh, I have a saying here. Welcome to Arizona; if you don't like it, you can move to Siberia. Seriously, it's 10:20 and it's 120 degrees.

Back when I was spending my summer vacations from college at my mother's house in Tempe, Phoenix bought some articulated buses from a company in Germany... and had to relegate them to use from late evening to early morning, because the daytime summer temperatures in Phoenix overloaded the air conditioning units in the buses.