avsforum down for upgrade?

[DesiPower]

That's what their homepage says... who long has it been down? how long will it be down? anyone knows?

 

[Aharami]

yes. today until 8pm est i think

 

[purbeast0]

i really like their forum software they use.

 

[DesiPower]

i really like their forum software they use.

Well, that all might soon change, god know what kind of "upgrades" they are making

 

[EvilYoda]

I'm usually not on until the evening...glad I didn't bother today

 

[The Boston Dangler]

dang, i haven't visited avs in a loooong time

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Do you think its some kind of trick?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I never understood websites that go down for days for maintenance. Why not do it in a test environment then upload it when it's done. That's always what I've done for my sites. When I ran my game server I even manged to do a server move with no more than 10 minutes of downtime. Basically the time it took to transfer the database between the two data centres. The rest I already did ahead of time while the old server continued to run.

 

[007ELmO]

you can also have farm servers where you upgrade one server, bring the other one offline so all traffic hits the new one once everything is upgraded, seamless upgrade (other than minor slowdown).

I feel like AVS is run on sticks and stones, lol.

 

[Anubis]

The avs updates don't normally take that long cpl hours. They had a bullifan this time saying it would be down pretty much all day.


Also this forum is down much more often for no reason at all

 

[Kneedragger]

Didn't they change their whole site about a year or two ago? I think they hired a company to take over their site...

 

[EvilYoda]

Not a huge fan of the new forums so far...and it seems like my displeasure isn't unique.

 

[Kneedragger]

Check whatever link you use for AVS. I had to change mine. I guess I had mine pointed to the forums but their forums link has changed.

 

[bruceb]

What is the new link ? ? It is still pointing to the old one when you try to get there from the Avast web site.

 

[Kneedragger]

New forum link is http://www.avsforum.com/forum/index.php

 

[DesiPower]

Thankfully it hasn't changed much, I like the new user CP, just like AT

 

[Sephire]

Traffic is down since they switched to Huddler. Now they are switching back to Vb? Its a mess.

 

[Kev]

What exactly do sites do when they're down for "maintenance"? AT goes down for maintenance every night, what are they doing?

 

[cronos]

What exactly do sites do when they're down for "maintenance"? AT goes down for maintenance every night, what are they doing?

I believe this AVS maintenance is similar to when AT converted from FT to VBulletin a while back.

AT's maintenance every Saturday night is most likely database cleanup, sort of defragmenting the database.

 

[DesiPower]

What exactly do sites do when they're down for "maintenance"? AT goes down for maintenance every night, what are they doing?

Is it ever night? or just Saturday nights?

 

[cronos]

Traffic is down since they switched to Huddler. Now they are switching back to Vb? Its a mess.

Wait, they had VB before? I didn't know that. I thought for sure that AVS wasn't available on Tapatalk, and now it is.

 

[TerryMathews]

Wait, they had VB before? I didn't know that. I thought for sure that AVS wasn't available on Tapatalk, and now it is.

VB doesn't mean Tapatalk compatible on it's own. There's a plugin that goes with it.

 

[Exterous]

you can also have farm servers where you upgrade one server, bring the other one offline so all traffic hits the new one once everything is upgraded, seamless upgrade (other than minor slowdown).

I feel like AVS is run on sticks and stones, lol.

Yeah - certainly not as well run as a renowned tech site like Anandtech which has no issues

 

[DesiPower]

AVS was always available on Tapatalk, I have it for a while now, few months, 6 maybe...

 

[cronos]

VB doesn't mean Tapatalk compatible on it's own. There's a plugin that goes with it.

I understand that. They still have to activate it.

My point was that I looked several times in the past and AVS was not in Tapatalk (I've never been a regular or anything), and then this morning after I read this thread and checked if they're back up, I've seen some threads in the HTPC subforums discussing how Tapatalk is now working. So I searched again on Tapatalk and there it is.

I then assumed that this 'maintenance' was about switching to VB and that's why Tapatalk now works.