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I'm no Drupal expert. (I've admined my fair share of Unix boxes though.) And from the look of the errors coming from an /includes/ directory I'd hazard a guess that the Drupal libraries got corrupted meaning that the database tables couldn't be read.

That would be my guess.

PS:
Generic Drupal problems are available for viewing in the drupal.org forum.
http://drupal.org/node/56192

My latest killing is:
http://www.bookscape.co.uk/short_stories/human_sacrifice.php

www.lorrainemace.com

Strange happenings, I thought at first it was my system. Glad to see the site is back up and running.

It was nasty nasty MySQL problems, the actual physical .frm files managed to get themselves into a pickle ... still having some mysql issues today, think its time to rebuild the box :(

This has come at a crucial moment for us so many many thanks to Mike and the Computerminds team for the massive work that's gone into the fix. Fingers crossed this will hold for a while before we go through a major re-build!

makes me see how attached i'm getting to the site... it felt like a powercut or something.

Apologies again - it was a bolt out of the blue and I think we now have to rebuild the server. aaaggghhh!

I know its dreadful not to be able to post.Aaargh!

Rebuilding the server will be a nightmare, but glad to see you back. I still pop in now and again (as you see) and would miss you if you weren't here, that's fer sure :-)

http://www.ukauthors.com
http://www.ukapress.com

I don't know anything about this implementation but MySQL might not be scalable enough to handle the volume of posts to this site. It's kind of a SQL Server lite. Might have to go to a full blown SQL Server 2005, or archive off older posts to a secondary copy of MySQL and keep recent posts in a primary MySQL. Then you have to solve switching back and forth from primary and secondary, etc. Ding! Time for a beer...

MySQL is used in thousands of very-large-scale implementations. eg: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1909453,00.asp

The Brazilian government uses it too, I notice. So I should imagine that a writing website should find it OK.

My latest killing is:
http://www.bookscape.co.uk/short_stories/human_sacrifice.php

Errr thanks everyone. I'll have to file that one under the rather large category "Things I do not understand".