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Site Status: Optimizations, Search Temporarily Disabled

News | July 15, 2008 (1 month, 3 weeks ago) | by ZealotOnAStick | Filed in Curse

Curse.com has undergone a hardware failure yesterday, and one of our media servers is essentially dead. The server is in the process of being rebuilt with new hardware, then will need to be reconfigured. Current estimate for this server being restored is sometime tomorrow (Wednesday July 16th).


While this server is in the process of being restored, our other primary media server is taking on the additional load. This has forced us to temporarily disable some of the functionality on the site. Media re-encoding for videos is down for the moment, as is search functionality for everything other than News posts. Yes, that's correct, temporarily, searching for addons is disabled.


We anticipate the media server being back online and functional tomorrow, and when it is, we will re-enable these features. It's not all bad, though: while our programmers were struggling to keep the site functional today, they were able to enact a number of database optimizations that should speed up the site noticeably.


Please bear with us for this period of inconvenience, and thank you all for your understanding and use of Curse.com and the Curse Network.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Syndication is fixed. It should now work. Try now everyone!

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Another issue is that updated files are not set as default in addon projects -- we're aware of this and are working to fix it.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

I tried to edit the news post to indicate things more correctly . . . search MAY have issues, though it seems to be working for many folks. Some users are reporting issues with addon downloads, though I've personally not been able to replicate that problem.

We are hard at work on the next version of the site, and some other improvements that I can't talk about yet that should be a significant difference, it's just going to take us a while to get everything there.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Sucks that the server blew. But it's good that you can fix/replace it so quickly. Not many I know could. Go you guys for being Win

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

yup battlebabe, beeing a wow website should really be a hard life heh :)

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

thank you for updating us on what's going on...those of us on WOW appreciate it...really we do

battlebabe

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

curse is very slow here from france

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

I cant download any add-on's...Is this why?

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

why are the addons always dropping off