Wine press Us Defunct? Or my computer

[Runningwolf]

RJ, I agree with everything you said. That being said people on this site and one other site not mentioned really do care about you and what you are doing and if someone misguides you another member will respectfully chime in and set you straight. You will find humor and seriousness on here, but its all focused on wine making, one of the most enjoyable hobbies/ventures there is.

 

[hannabarn]

Good post, Robert. I had never tried WinePress.us until I read about it on this forum! I guess it is down but what it did was to introduce face book to me! I found that I have a lot of friends on Facebook! Friends that I hadn't heard from in a long time!!

 

[Waldo]

Dang, you mean wade lied to me when he told me this was the only wine forum on the internet !!!

 

[Wade E]

Actually waldo, this one doesnt even exist. You really should have laid off all those drugs a lot earlier then you did!

 

[Waldo]

Oh Meeeeeeee..I have been posting to hallucinatory people again !!! I am even imagining I am making potentially award winning wines..I gotta get into rehab ..QUICK !!!

 

[Wade E]

The funny thing is I have 1 of your imaginary bottles in my basement.

 

[djl - Michigan]

Has anyone been able to access the Winepress.us forum?

I haven't been able to get in for about a month. I see they no longer say they are in the process of replacing their server on winepress.us web page.

Dave

 

[vcasey]

Joel had an update on Facebook this past Saturday. According to him they are still working on the server. Apparently the find one error, fix it and then another error shows up. The facebook page is open to the public and the address ishttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=50933654464

 

[grapeman]

I got this from Joel earlier this afternoon when I e-mailed him on the progress.





Hello, the WinePress.US server has been going thru a complete rebuild, and the temp server hosting the forum and many other sites, has been having software conflicts. There is a Facebook WinePress.US forum member group where updates are being made.


This is a major and much needed update due to the over 10 million hits it receives each month. The WinePress.US server will be better, faster, more secure all for your enjoyment. I also plan on rebuilding the main WinePress.US site once I get time and caught up on bills.


You can join the WinePress.US facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&ref=profile&id=685120995#/group.php?gid=50933654464


WinePress.US is free for you to use, and I hope it is a valuable tool for your winemaking hobby. If you would like to assist by making a donation, you can do so on the main page www.WinePress.US.


I wish you the best, and hope to see you in the forum as soon as I have it all back online again. Cheers, and here's to a truly great 2010.


Joel Sommer

 

[djl - Michigan]

Thanks for the info vcasey and appleman, I'll start watching Facebook for their updates.

Dave

 

[geocorn]

I have spent the better part of 15 years working with servers and I am having a real problem accepting his explanation. Server issues take hours or, at worst, days to fix.


We had an email problem for several weeks but the forum still worked while we fixed the email issue. I think there is something else going on.

 

[grapeman]

It's hard to tell the problem he is having over there, but must be major. A year and a half ago I had a small forum I started get hijacked by the ..... well, for lack of a better term, the Russian Porn industry. I did not know it at the time, but all of a sudden the index page was corrupted and I could not rebuild or restore it. Since this was a new forum there wasn't any real content left on it. I just basically said , oh well and began another more secure one. Then about a year later I got an e-mail notification that I had a new member join and it wanted me to approve it so I clicked the link to see what was up. It brought me to the forum for approval and I was into the old forum! I checked around and there were hundreds of new member and a lot of new posts. Virtually all the posts had attached porn pictures. The member names were all obviously russian or related. I deleted all those members and attached posts, which took a while. I blocked all new members from signing up for the time being. Within hours I got several new membr signups- even though they were blocked. They had put dozens of pictures up already


Apparently the forum had become a repository to hold porn pictures for their organization. At that point I decided rather than trying to sort it all out, I deleted the forum and database structure to prevent further attacks.


It is for reasons like this that I left the computer support industry several years back. I'm too old to match wits constantly with the younger crowd and stay sane. Now I just do simple house plan drafting and work with my grapes and wine.

 

[AlFulchino]

"I have spent the better part of 15 years working with servers and I am
having a real problem accepting his explanation. Server issues take
hours or, at worst, days to fix."

thats pretty much how i saw it as well.....anyone....anyone who has a server EVEN if they host their own site always has had a tech in at some point and one of the first things they do upon arrival or just prior to departure is do a back up of info......server components are pretty much plug and play and then wait for your upload

i hate even to doubt his explanation in public because the website is a good concept and almost any questioning could seem out of place.......but

 

[Dean]

As someone who builds server infrastructure and networks for a living, Joel's problems sounds quite legit to me. He's running the system on Dell hardware (I'm not a fan based on past experience!) and it's quite underpowered. On top of that, his forum gets more traffic and posts than his server can keep up with. It's not just apache and PHP engine that he has to contend with, it's the underlying database and the number of rows that it has to index and keep up with.

I think he's finally hitting the limits of the forum software and he's limping it along to keep all the existing content. With the number of hits he's getting, he should have a 2 to 4 server front end cluster over a 2 server backend database cluster. I'm not sure which forum software can handle that. On top of that, I think a while ago, he lost a few drives in a raid array failure. Once a single disk goes in an array, I've seen Dell servers powerdown the other drives, resulting in full on raid failures, which takes away the whole data resiliency that raid gives you.

 

[AlFulchino]

as one who builds server infrastructure would you let a client get to this point?

older posts and topics should have and could have been archived thereby reducing the overall load

anyways..wine under the bridge.....the point is that it is down...its like having no gas at a gas station

 

[xanxer82]

He should switch to some apple servers. Hot swappable drives and massive amounts of storage memory and reliable hardware. the BSD unix enviro is very stable too.

 

[Dean]

Al, Joel is not my client, and No, I wouldn't let it get to that point. I just know what he's dealing with, and when you under-build, don't use enterprise level hardware(my personal opinion of cheap Dell crap), and don't choose appropriate software for the load you will place under it, this tends to happen.

Usually, if a client goes against our recommendations, within a few months, we fire the client, as they end up with something we cannot support. Joel has something he cannot support right now.

 

[Wade E]

Its a shame about that site. There are a lot of good people missing their home.

 

[RJMehr]

I have been making wine for a year now (made nearly 40 kits, I got really hooked) and have grown to love this forum and the WinePress.US forum. Each has it's own personality and charm. Nearly everyday for the past year I have gone to each forum to get my daily fix of wine related news and chat.

I am starting to get withdrawal jitters from the lack of WinePress postings. Can't wait until it returns.

A glimmer of hope, this morning in the wee hours (2:30am) I tried to log on to the WinePress site and found myself at www.invisionpower.com web site asking me to install somekind of software. It turns out the invisionpower.com sells forum/blog software so Joel or someone was burning the midnight oil working to get the forum back up.

In the meantime, I am content in getting my daily fix right here with all the good winemakers who share their time and wisdom with all of us.

Robert

 

[grapeman]

Robert you need to post a bit more here to get yourself busy and involved so you don't notice their absense as much. The error message I got the last week or so about some line of code not working was gone this AM and the page is entirely missing agian so they are working on it.