A friend of mine need help with is admin team!
 

Hi,

A friend of mine runs a gaming community and he asked me to ask someone in the know, to see if one of his admins is abusing his powers?

A few minutes ago the site database went down, now my friend went away early this morning and early this morning a lot of the users were complaining about two admins saying that they just abuse there admin privilages, then all of a sudden SQL databases starting becoming corrupt and a few people have contacted me saying that this is a coincidence, then one of these admins posted this on the forums:

Quote:
We do not pay on a per-server basis, we pay for a dedicated server, which gives us much greater flexibility but requires us to provide support for our own server, it is very time consuming and a right pain in the arse when people undervalue you.

When you talk to a high-tier admin about server lag, they forward it to a member of the tech-team, who will then diagnose and fix the problem, small problems like lag take a matter of minutes to fix. larger problems like mysql crashes take longer to fix because of the troubleshooting we do to make sure it doesn't occur again.

For example, after teaching disco how to use the core services and troubleshoot on the dedi tonight. (This is why the website was down.) Mysql entered a crash-loop, me and spyko instantly got on the dedi to start troubleshooting. After 5 minuites of searching we found these lines in the log file:

Code:
090407 19:32:30 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 61931440
090407 19:32:30 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ?
090407 19:32:30 [ERROR] Aborting

090407 19:32:30 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
090407 19:32:31 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 61931440
090407 19:32:31 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown complete



So we started looking for what was using port 3306 and found it to be the Game servers. so we shut them down and bought Mysql up and then bought the game servers up, fixed. We are now looking for plausible fixes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Basically I want to know if what he is saying it truthful or is he talking out of his backside?

Thanks
Danny