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Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:37 am
by Tural
Random thought.
A while back HM had a fairly significant outage, where it was down for several days. When prompting Iron_Forge, he directed me to
an article explaining it. Halomods' current hosting provider, The Planet, had an explosion in their building. After watching many hours of the repetitive coverage of hurricane Ike, and watching as it intensified, I had a thought occur. I went back to the aforementioned article, because I was sure the host was based in Texas somewhere, where the hurricane has made landfall. There's a lot of power outages and flooding in Houston, where The Planet is located. Other sites, such as
Rooster Teeth, have made specific news posts about potential issues with their Houston servers. Supermodder has just alerted me to an issue with the board, and in the minute or two between receiving his PM and attempting to post a message in C&S stating that we were aware of the issue, to deter people from posting about it a bunch, the server went into its "Critical error" state we are all familiar with. For once (Or rather, twice now), I think there's a legitimate cause for the site being down, and potentially one that could keep the site down for a long time, and possibly cause permanent data loss.
tl;dr: Halomods server probably hit by hurricane. This concludes my random thought thread.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:39 am
by Remnant Samurai
Your thoughts are usually right arent they?
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:53 am
by Gary
his random thoughts or much more intelligent then many other people's.
And sorry to here that about halomods, it has gone though alot and how its getting hit my a hurricane, i know that there was a hurricane in Texas as well, because this effects my internet speed and uptime, because of where i live, i must use satellite internet, and the ISP is in Texas...
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:01 am
by Remnant Samurai
dont really worry me about halomods Tural ip banned me a while ago

Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:36 pm
by Gary
RaZoR73 wrote:dont really worry me about halomods Tural ip banned me a while ago

what did you do?
you double post or something?
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:13 pm
by Grimdoomer
So this could possibly be the end of HaloMods?
Doesnt any one make dumps of the database on a regular basis? Or atleast every once in a while?
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:41 pm
by Gary
Grimdoomer wrote:So this could possibly be the end of HaloMods?
Doesnt any one make dumps of the database on a regular basis? Or atleast every once in a while?
they should, it would be a big database wouldn't it? all those members/posts/topics
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:08 pm
by Tural
Admins are largely inactive.
Also, I never said there would be data lost. The likelihood of that is very remote.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:59 pm
by Gary
you should be an Admin, your probably the most active staff member there.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:27 pm
by Remnant Samurai
Sorry to go off topic about it but i was repeatedly making new accounts when i got banned i regret doing it.
Sucks even if it does go down all that information might be lost...
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:31 pm
by Dragonfire
The only info im afraid of being lost is the halo 2 tuts, anyone wanna maybe ban together and help transfer them to here in case it does go down?
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:42 pm
by DemonicSandwich
Dragonfire wrote:The only info im afraid of being lost is the halo 2 tuts, anyone wanna maybe ban together and help transfer them to here in case it does go down?
We'd have to wait for the server to come back up for that.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:08 am
by Aumaan Anubis
Archive.org
for the Halo 2 tutorials.
Or we could transfer here, either way.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:17 am
by Click16
I actually visit this site at least 2 times a day, i go on halomods at least 1 time a week (Its fallin' apart)
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 4:57 am
by Dragonfire
Click16 wrote:I actually visit this site at least 2 times a day, i go on halomods at least 1 time a week (Its fallin' apart)
I come on here about 5 times a day, but i havent visited HM for the past 4 mths or more, whats the point?

Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:17 am
by DemonicSandwich
Like it or not, Halomods is still the center of most of Halo 2 modding because of what RaZoR73 and Dragonfire pointed out.
It has a huge wealth of information and tools.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:59 am
by Dragonfire
Aumaan Anubis wrote:Archive.org
for the Halo 2 tutorials.
Or we could transfer here, either way.
I'm sure we can all work together and just transfer the topics to here for now just using the quote system

Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:44 am
by Gary
Dragonfire wrote:Aumaan Anubis wrote:Archive.org
for the Halo 2 tutorials.
Or we could transfer here, either way.
I'm sure we can all work together and just transfer the topics to here for now just using the quote system

Many things we may have to the creators of the topic, many people, even if credit have been given, are very tight about people re-posting there topics.
And Maybe if we become large enough, we can become the next halomods... but we wont fall apart, still it took them about 5 years to do so.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:43 pm
by neodos
Yeah well we won't miss people like Tural and Veegie, but tutorials, tools and mods at halomods is something that should be backed up ^^
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:18 pm
by Dragonfire
neodos wrote:Yeah well we won't miss people like Tural and Veegie, but tutorials, tools and mods at halomods is something that should be backed up ^^
Exactly
Im sure the topic posters wont mind if we try to preserve their topics, its not like we're spamming them through the net

Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:35 pm
by Click16
Who wants to start copying and pasting!

(Again use the quote system like he said)
Im going to move my awesome H1 Pistol tut here! (I think it would help new modders)
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:27 pm
by Aumaan Anubis
HaloMods is back up.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:00 pm
by Dragonfire
Ok, since im bored, ill just do tut transfer all day
Ill just put them all in Tut Sub, u guys (admin/mod) can do with as u please.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:41 pm
by Aumaan Anubis
Aaaaaand, it's down. Again.
Re: Hmm.. Halomods...
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:56 am
by Dragonfire
lol, what a surprise
/sarcasm