404lab Crashed Last Week—We Blew It Big Time! 🌀
Hey crew it’s maddog! Alright gang we’ve got a mea culpa moment—404lab took an unexpected nosedive last week and we were totally in the dark about it! Yep we fumbled the ball harder than a rookie in a thunderstorm and only caught wind when the dashboard started blaring alarms. This fix saga is wild so grab some popcorn and let’s dive into the messy details!
Let’s start with the raw data—our dashboard spilled the beans loud and clear. We’re rocking a Success rate of 92.2% (7918) which ain’t too shabby but ouch Errors hit 7.8% (672). That error surge was our wake-up call kicking off with a brutal “error establishing a database connection” that kept popping up like a bad pop-up ad. You all were likely staring at blank 404 pages wondering what gives while we were clueless—pure facepalm territory!
We leapt into action—or stumbled into it at least. Plan A was to outsmart the glitch by backing up our databases. We trashed the old chaos and pumped that backup into a sparkling new database we conjured up. Epic fail! The error mocked us relentlessly and 404lab stayed kaput. We were left pondering if some intergalactic hacker had hijacked our system—it felt like patching a sinking ship with duct tape!
Next we stormed wasmer 404lab’s home turf. After a marathon of head-scratching and some desperate tinkering we slashed wordpress down to version 6.7. And voilà—miracle achieved! The site sprang back to life errors evaporated and we’re still rubbing our eyes in disbelief. It’s alive again ready for your crazy 404 edits so let’s get back to crafting those quirky pages!
But wait—it’s not a total victory lap yet. 404lab’s still throwing tantrums—running slower than a snail on a coffee break and some stuff just won’t load right. Argh so frustrating! We’re diving deep to smooth out these wrinkles so hang in there while we wrangle this stubborn beast. And oof—all our plugins got zapped offline thanks to a sneaky “error: plugin file does not exist.” Then there’s this head-scratcher—13 inactive themes popped up out of nowhere when we only had 1 before. What in the world? We’re scratching our heads over this theme invasion! Oh and registration’s on pause for now—it’ll flip back on once we’ve crushed these bugs and you can sign up again. Plus get this—seo editor and seo manager roles mysteriously appeared and we’re pretty sure wordpress doesn’t roll with those out of the box. How did they sneak in? We’re stumped and on the case to crack this enigma!
We’re beyond sorry for this circus crew—we’re gutted you were left hanging last week and now stuck with lag plugin flops theme overload registration downtime and those rogue seo roles. We’re tearing apart the mystery of how we missed this and swear to stay on high alert moving forward. Got glitches to report or just wanna unload about this madness? Smash the Tally form i’m all ears and eager to lap up your feedback. Let’s keep the madstudio madness churning—let’s fix vibe and triumph over this downtime disaster together!
Catch u soon! ✍️
—maddog