AVSIM Down (again)

**n4gix** · March 5th, 2014, 16:44

Talk about bad luck... poor AVSIM can't seem to get a break...

Notice from Tom Allensworth sent to all staff 2:57 PM today:

Folks,

We have had a hard drive fail. It happens that it is the principle (boot / system drive) for the forums. We are offline until we can get new hardware and get someone in there to fix it. It could be a while. This is not your normal hard drive. It is a RAID array and will require that we replace ALL six disks on that array. Please pass the word out to all the web sites you visit please. I will post a notice on FACEBOOK.

***Dangerousdave26*** · March 5th, 2014, 16:56

? That does not sound right. Replace all 6 disks because one went down. That sounds more like a cooling issue that killed all 6 drives or the whole raid.

Either way good luck to them.

**n4gix** · March 5th, 2014, 17:02

Originally Posted by Dangerousdave26

? That does not sound right. Replace all 6 disks because one went down. That sounds more like a cooling issue that killed all 6 drives or the whole raid.

Either way good luck to them.

I honestly don't know more than what Tom said. I do know that the system rack is only about six years old, and is housed in a secured, climate controlled facility in Reston, Virginia. At the time of installation, the entire cost was just under $100,000.

**Naismith** · March 5th, 2014, 22:33

There was a time Avsim was always my go to site. Nowadays it is FS.com because Avsim is so slow. How about that for a turnaround. FS.com hasn't got any quicker either.

**n4gix** · March 6th, 2014, 05:59

Of course the Library system is still on line and available, since it runs on a separate server entirely:

http://library.avsim.net/login.php?Location=%2F

**odourboy** · March 6th, 2014, 06:48

Originally Posted by Naismith

There was a time Avsim was always my go to site. Nowadays it is FS.com because Avsim is so slow. How about that for a turnaround. FS.com hasn't got any quicker either.

Thanks for the tip. As much as I love AVSIM, these ongoing issues seem to be slowly driving it into the ground.

**stansdds** · March 7th, 2014, 03:29

Originally Posted by odourboy

Thanks for the tip. As much as I love AVSIM, these ongoing issues seem to be slowly driving it into the ground.

It certainly looks that way. I really enjoyed all of those "unofficial support" forums.

**n4gix** · March 7th, 2014, 05:55

It was hoped that the AVSIM forum server would be back on-line late this afternoon, but the latest word from Tom is that it probably won't be until Saturday afternoon...

Today we call into play our warranty and service assets and we will be receiving a new disk (Friday) and an engineer should have it installed by no later than mid-afternoon. We will then start to recover from our back up system and with any kind of luck, we will be back online by (Saturday) evening, EDT.

Also, I would like you to know that we are taking this opportunity to increase our storage capacity on that server by 50%. We will have more disks delivered next week, and they will be installed as soon as we can get HP Care Package folks on-site.

Why a RAID disc failure would cause the system to come offline will be looked into; the RAID array should have prevented that from happening. It didn’t.

**odourboy** · March 10th, 2014, 13:07

Still dead for me. Any updates?

**n4gix** · March 11th, 2014, 06:21

Originally Posted by odourboy

Still dead for me. Any updates?

No, and that is really worrying me...

***Ickie*** · March 11th, 2014, 07:09

n4gix ............... if they need space for a forums to get up and talking I will provide them with that at no charge.

**Chuck_Jodry-VJPL** · March 11th, 2014, 07:14

We have an engineer there at the moment and are hoping to have the system back online today. Nothing has gone easy since this whole thing started. Tom will post a full story on it once we are back online.

C Jodry
Managing Editor
Avsim.com

***Mazo*** · March 11th, 2014, 08:01

Originally Posted by Ickie

n4gix ............... if they need space for a forums to get up and talking I will provide them with that at no charge.

Now this is a "Class Act" response! Way to go, Ickie! Hopefully Avsim won't need the offer and be back up today,but it certainly is a great way to conduct the SOH forum.

Lyn