I was worried there for a bit.  LOL

 

If my tech company was big enough I would go with MS Azure.  From what I've seen it is really amazing stuff.  No fuss no muss.

 

Regards

jja

Tom,

 

I feel your pain - been there and done that on 'mission critical' systems and if any system/backup system worked as advertised I'd drop dead from the shock.  I'm so glad I'm retired!  Glad you're back on line and look forward to many more stable years of service.

 

DJ

Problem with cloud hosting, like Azure and Amazon AWS, is that it can get very expensive very quickly and the cost will vary each month depending on how much usage you have that month.  Hard to know what your bill will be at the end of every month.  But, they sure have a lot of great options if you can afford them!

Glad to have AVSIM back, I'm not saying this as a Tom fan*oy as someone put it here:

 

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/avsim.net.html

 

but as a proud AVSIM supporter.

 

Yes, I see the cretins have crawled out of the word work. I find it interesting that in 18 years of providing free service to the flight sim community and with only two major outages due to a hack and a hardware failure in that time, that some folks can be so adamantly negative about AVSIM. The slowness and the 503 have been due to these disk corruption issues, not the architecture that we had thought and had scheduled to change (which is still in our road map by the way). I guess there has to be some kind of envy at play here.

Glad it's back and running.  Thx.

 

I know the pain,  have all my digital photos backed up on two HDs.  Within an hour, both drives failed.  Lost the works.  Had to send one drive to a company to have the drive rebuild to see what could be restored.  $1,700/later got a 60% recovery.  Believed to be related to some snowstorm power failures while computer was running.

 

And fortunately for old DVDs with backups and scandisk cards still with photos was able to restore about 80% of our family photos.

 

I now have 3 sets, one master and two backups.

 

Digital world is a whole new ball game, backup, backup, and backup.  Can't have enough.

Nice to see you back Tom and to see my virtual buddies again!

It's already been said a few times, but it can be said a few times more, it's good to have you guys back online.

I echo the relief, thanks, and gratitude of others in this thread.  Thank you, Tom, and all AVSIM staff !

 

Jonathan

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My question to those involved heavily in AVSIM is why is the connection and maneuvering time so slow within AVSIM? It just seems to take an unusual amount of time too load from the start. Other web sites load very quickly it's just AVSIM that drags butt. Why is this? Thanks for any reply, that from reading other posts, I won't hold my breath for.

 

 

 

Glad to see you guys got everything sorted and are back online!

It's great to have AVSIM forums back.  It felt very odd to have the forums down during the whole Malaysia 777 incident, I can't wait to see the discussion unfold to make up for lost time.

I've missed you, boys. Hope don't happen again, for the good of all of us

I thought for sure this would break your "camel's back", Tom.  Throwing up your arms saying "It just isn't worth it anymore", what with some of the ungrateful comments I read elsewhere as well as experiencing "customer support" first hand, ha!  This hobby definitely would not be what it is today if it weren't for AVSIM.  It was, like like many, the very first website I discovered back in 2002 when I learned about this hobby called flight simulation. 

 

Thanks for many fun years Tom.

My question to those involved heavily in AVSIM is why is the connection and maneuvering time so slow within AVSIM? It just seems to take an unusual amount of time too load from the start. Other web sites load very quickly it's just AVSIM that drags butt. Why is this? Thanks for any reply, that from reading other posts, I won't hold my breath for.

This has been asked many times by myself included, and I believe the most recent response was that server architecture needs to be reengineered (this is all my gross paraphrasing of what my brain heard) and there isn't a volunteer w/ the right credentials, but that sometime before the crash of their raid array there were active plans to hire someone to do this project which should improve routine performance.  I don't know if these changes happened during this repair, but Tom's comment,

 

'When all is said and done, we think the system will be back to good health and operating at its peak performance.'

 

I guess this doesn't really mean its peak performance has been reset to a higher level as was implied in the bit about hiring someone to do the revision--it may just mean 'peak performance' by former recent AVSIM standards.

 

 

I guess this doesn't really mean its peak performance has been reset to a higher level as was implied in the bit about hiring someone to do the revision--it may just mean 'peak performance' by former recent AVSIM standards.

 

Read the other post in this forum regarding the 503 Errors.