Constellation

rich2000k · Post by **rich2000k** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:40 am

Does anyone have any idea what's going on with constellation, it's been down now for the past 4 days including their own hompage.

The only reason i'm bothered is I've got literally hundreds of completed tasks which are about to hit their deadlines.

Cheers in advance
Rich

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:41 pm

Hi Rich,

If the admins know they have a server issue, then in the case of other projects, they tend to extend the deadline, as clearly the problem is not down to the users....plus the data being crunched is still worthwhile to have.

So, I'd be tempted to carry on and see what transpires over the next few days.

regards
Tim

rich2000k · Post by **rich2000k** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:46 pm

Thanks Tim

I only have another 40 or so on their project, which will be done today. I have my other projects running alongside so no loss of work from my point of view.

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:14 pm

Hi, rich - I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that, if you complete a WU within its deadline while the server is down, you should still be granted credits - I'm not sure on that though, so someone might need to double check me...

Post by **Woodles** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:34 pm

The deadlines are usually just to prevent work sitting around on peoples PCs doing nothing, once the deadline passes, the WU is sent out to other users ... and with the site down, they won't be getting sent out to other users just yet

You should get credit for any WUs crunched correctly and returned before anyone else returns them regardless of the deadline.

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:58 pm

Thanks, Mark - I thought that was the case, but didn't want to say it for definite just in case I was wrong haha

rich2000k · Post by **rich2000k** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:41 pm

I have no idea what's going on but all my credit for the project has just been deleted and I did a MINUS score on my stats yesterday.

The work tasks done are starting to disappear as well...something happening, maybe not good either.

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:20 am

From the 20th Feb

Good news everyone, we're finally back online!
We are sorry to have you experiencing a longer than intended server down-time. Due to the new Comet Trails app, we generated more than expected results, which caused some trouble with our system. So thank you very much for helping this great application and also benchmarking our server.
We already tackled the main problems, but we still leave the server under monitoring. So please be patient with us, if the server is not yet running as it used to. By the way, it is still the same server we started with in 2011 plus some new storage. He served us well, but if you like us to have a new and reliable one, please be so kind and donate on our donation page.

We will keep you informed here or on our "emergency channels". And we will also have some other good news coming up.

So, thank you for your patience again!

The "emergency channel" http://81.7.13.241:10480/

rich2000k · Post by **rich2000k** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 11:09 am

Thanks Mark that information is helpful, still kinda annoyed all my credit for the project is gone...and the project itself has now disappeared off my projects list entirely.

Ahh well onwards and upwards!