Category: Operational Problems
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Temporarily Reduced Search Options as a Result of Database Change
On July 24, we began the process of changing the database that powers the RinkAtlas website and API. This was the result of a decision by Google Cloud to sunset the database that RinkAtlas had been using since September 2016. There are several significant differences between the database we’ve moved to and our previous database.…
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Partial Service Interruption on August 28, 2013
Map and directions display on RinkAtlas.com was interrupted from about 10:00pm Eastern Time on August 28, 2013 through to the morning of August 29. The problem was that we attempted to adopt a portion of our web framework that calls version 3 of the Google Maps API, and the functionality was not an exact match…
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RinkAtlas Restored After Another Server Crash
It’s hard to believe that RinkAtlas was down again on October 28 and 29, 2008. The server we run on, which is conservatively managed and sits in a Tier I hosting facility had it’s second major hardware problem in less than four months. It takes a bit of time to restore RinkAtlas because some of…
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Server Crash Took Down RinkAtlas on July 6 and 7, 2008
The server where RinkAtlas is hosted experienced a pretty serious hardware problem early on Sunday, July 6, 2008. The server was restored late last night, but some additional tweaking had to be done to the LAMP stack on the restored server. Everything seems to be running well now. If you notice any issues that you’d…