Downtime

[dane]

As many of you probably noticed the site was down for most of the weekend - and if it was up it was an older version. Unfortunately that was a problem with the host (RAID issues) that caused the downtime.

Anyway things have been sorted and it looks like everything is backup and running. The backup I am running is 48hrs old so any new registrations/posts/etc since then will be missing. Considering the nature of the problem and how long we were down for, I think I was pretty lucky to have a backup that recent.

Anyway everything should be sorted now, please let me know if you have any problems, and this is a good lesson in remembering to keep a recent backup of your work/data

 

[kook]

Ohwell, at least its back up now

What RAID subsystem is the host running? Did they have multiple drive failures?

You're lucky you had a 48hr old backup, its suprising how many individuals (and businesses!) dont have scheduled backups, or have them so irregularly they may aswell not have any.

 

[Doc]

Can anyone remember what the most recent topics were so we can get right back to where we left off?

Doc

 

[dane]

they had multiple drive failures - once the original raid was rebuilt they had a secondary - different disks and all - just unlucky I guess (I hope)

Anyway, I don't think we lost many (any topics) the 48hour backup was taken the same day that the server went down so maybe a couple of posts.

I don;t have a lists of what the current ones were but yeah I don't think there is too many that were lost.

Let me know if you find any other glitches on the site - everything should be normal - but just in case.

Let get back into it

PS. trust it to happen on a weekend when the most people are going to want to use the site.

 

[dane]

Guys,

As you probably noticed there were a couple more hours tonight of downtime. Again it was a problem with the hosting people - this time out of their hands with one of their backbone providers having a router failure.

I am currently looking at some alternatives.

Up until now everything has been fine, so it may be just a 'bad week'.

Anyway lets hope things are a little more stable from now on.