# Board Maintenance **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 19, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072 "2001-02-19T11:05:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quark\_W.Griswold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Quark\_W.Griswold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quark_W.Griswold)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/1 "2001-02-19T11:05:01Z")
Does the Board go down in the wee hours of each and every morning for maintenance? I am just curous. I usually read in the middle of the night, and it seems that for about 20 min every night I get the message that the Board is temporarily down for maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/2 "2001-02-19T11:37:08Z")
As long as I’ve been reading (since October) yes it does go down every morning, which means I have to find actual work to do while at work. ---
**Author:** ![Catmarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@Catmarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catmarie)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/3 "2001-02-19T16:41:49Z")
Yep, it happens just as I’m getting into reading everything that happened the previous night 😉 [sub]ok well not **everything** , just the bits I’m interested in[/sub] Work :eek: don’t say such nasty things!!! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/4 "2001-02-19T18:01:41Z")
Sorry about that, but think of the 23 hours and 40 minutes that we’re available to you and maybe it won’t be so bad. your humble TubaDiva Administrator Is your glass nearly full or almost not empty? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/5 "2001-02-19T19:43:45Z")
What exactly happens during board maintenance periods? How is the board maintained? (Spooky. I was thinking last night – this happens at 10.30pm my time – that I should ask the question. And then a thread about it Far out.) ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_of\_the\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Soul\_of\_the\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_of_the_Machine)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/6 "2001-02-19T20:12:49Z")
Maintenance, the kind that requires the system to be off-line completely, usually amounts to automatic backups. If the system isn’t stopped, the backed-up indexes and threads no longer match and the backup is useless to restore from. From my experience, the downtime is more like 5 minutes than 20. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/7 "2001-02-19T21:07:47Z")
**Tuba** , I don’t think anyone’s angry, just curious. We’re used to a 24/7 internet experience, and anything that disrupts that is going to be explored. I’m very glad we don’t have more outages, myself, and I’m perfectly willing to wait a few minutes during the planned outage. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/8 "2001-02-19T21:49:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Ice Wolf** : > > What exactly happens during board maintenance periods? How is the board maintained? That depends on the forum: General Questions: The load coils are replaced & bearings repacked. This is also when **Chronos** & **Manhattan** put fresh troll bait in the snap-traps. The bullshit filters are soaked in hot soapy water & thoroughly scrubbed with wire brushes. IMHO: **Czarcasm** uses this time to lean way back in his chair and try to think of a new handle for himself that’s even _more_ clever than the current one or any of the previous ones. The forum’s suspension springs are replaced weekly. **TVeblen** makes the little folders some new color just to cheeze-off **TubaDiva** who will soon have 17 new threads in ATMB asking why the folders are bright orange, or hot pink, or plaid (in addition to the 12 new threads asking why the boards were down last night). MPSIMS: **Eutychus55** goes through the day’s threads with a fine tooth comb looking for any that have even the slightest flavor of possibly being a question. Then with a snow shovel, unloads them all into GQ. **UncleBeer** goes off to spend some quantity time with Aunt Whiskey, and **Coldfire** mops up the spilled ingredients from The Ultimate Recipe thread & catches up on all the latest Rush threads. The BBQ Pit: **Alphagene** orders more charcoal birquettes & lighter fluid. **Lynn** calls “[Cosmo.com](http://Cosmo.com)” to order chocolate. **John Corrado** bags the prior day’s ashes & tosses them into the garbage, and all the the remaining bone & teeth fragments are run through a wood chipper. Great Debates: All attempts at logic are checked for falacies and, if necessary, tagged for the enjoyment of the next day’s dopers. **David B** hooks up the forum flow control valves to his time machine in order to edit posts before they were actually made. **Gaudere** washes all the windows because the maid refuses to do it. ATMB: If you press your ear to the screen and stay reeeeeeeeeeal quiet, you can just barely hear her playing… And every month or so **Ed Zotti** changes the spark plugs in the search engine. We’re still not sure what **Cecil Adams** does here. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-maintenance/55072/9 "2001-02-20T02:36:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Lynn calls “[Cosmo.com](http://Cosmo.com)” to order chocolate. I do _not_. I go to “[Godiva.com](http://Godiva.com)” for all my chocolate needs.