Gary
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Post by Gary on Jan 22, 2008 23:49:25 GMT
A couple of days ago some of you may have noticed the main site was up and down a lot, and then yesterday it just disappeared totally....
Vythika received an email from Hostultra explaining that the hard drive containing all of the website stored within one of their servers took a major shit...
This basically means that she is now gonna have to rebuild the site from scratch yet again, unless she can find the backups that we think is on another hard drive that we have.
Hostultra have said that they are gonna try everything that they can to retrieve any data on their side and have sent their hard drive away for data recovery, however they cannot guarantee that this is possible.
We will keep you updated on whats happening, wheter they manage to retrieve the site or if we are gonna have to rebuild it ourselves.
Thanks Guys
^_^
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Robynn
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Post by Robynn on Jan 23, 2008 2:26:28 GMT
I did notice, and was wondering what was up. Thanks for clearing it up. Hope the server finds the stuff.
Isn't this what started our decline to begin with back in the day? Stupid servers who promise reliability, and then take a dump, WITH our stuff.
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Devilfish
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Post by Devilfish on Jan 23, 2008 13:03:07 GMT
You didn't keep local backups? =/.
oh well hope you get it all back.. if you do or don't make a local backup every month or so to make sure this doesn't happen again ; )
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Post by snowwhite on Jan 23, 2008 18:21:16 GMT
ahh right, i thought it was just my internet messing up!!
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Post by unicorn07 on Jan 23, 2008 19:16:09 GMT
^I thought it was my internet too!
Thanks for informing us!!
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Post by stratlady on Jan 23, 2008 20:56:11 GMT
Well, I had no idea the main site was down since I usually come here through the board adress. But thanks for informing us. Hope you guys won't have too much trouble dealing with this...
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Vythika
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Post by Vythika on Jan 24, 2008 13:19:40 GMT
It doesn't look hopeful that they will/have managed to retrieve any of the data on the drive... bastards...
I recieved another email yesterday saying that they've all but restored a new drive with all of the account functions and stuff on it and that all I have to do is re-upload everything... and that in itself would take forever since their server-side unZip feature isn't active yet so I'd have to upload each file individually...
On the plus side, all of the videos and music that we had uploaded already are still safe since they're hosted on Megaupload... I only linked the files into the galleries so all I'll have to do there is re-link them...
I guess in heinseit this incident could have been ALOT worse if I was still hosting everything on the hosted server... but now that all of the media and the forum is hosted elsewhere, I only really have to worry about rebuilding the main website (which I can probably get done in a weekend) and just re-linking everything from before.
It's still a pain in the arse... but like I said... it could have been ALOT worse...
*sigh*
Chin up...
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Vythika
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Post by Vythika on Jan 24, 2008 14:17:16 GMT
Good news! ^_^
I've just found the local backup of the site!
Well, part of it anyway... the news page was last updated on my computer back in October... after that I just updated it on the server... (naughty-naughty...  )
Let this be a lesson to me, to update the site on my computer and then upload it over the old files.... lol
At least now, getting the old site back shouldn't take long at all! ^_^
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Post by stratlady on Jan 24, 2008 17:20:14 GMT
Well, that's good news. Glad things are turning out better then exected. So, now let's hope it's the last time ever you guys get problems with this site. 
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Post by EvenInDeath46 on Jan 24, 2008 18:18:22 GMT
So the site is almost fixed now?
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Devilfish
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Post by Devilfish on Jan 25, 2008 1:02:03 GMT
Good news! ^_^
I've just found the local backup of the site!
Well, part of it anyway... the news page was last updated on my computer back in October... after that I just updated it on the server... (naughty-naughty... )
Let this be a lesson to me, to update the site on my computer and then upload it over the old files.... lol
At least now, getting the old site back shouldn't take long at all! ^_^ I knew you wouldn't let me down =) |
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Vythika
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Post by Vythika on Jan 25, 2008 21:27:43 GMT
I knew you wouldn't let me down =)
I KNEW I had it somewhere, lol. Was driving myself crazy cuz I knew I wouldn't have deleted it and I haven't burned anything to disc in months, lol. ^_^ |
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Devilfish
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Post by Devilfish on Jan 29, 2008 7:40:35 GMT
Too right you wouldn't have deleted it, your smarter than that ; ). Three cheers for Vythika ^^
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Vythika
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Post by Vythika on Jan 31, 2008 12:13:51 GMT
Well... this has been going on for about a week now, and while I've been re-compiling everything we had before, I didn't upload anything cuz Host Ultra said their Un-Zip feature (which I use to upload loads of stuff at once rather than spend 2 weeks uploading each file and then move it to the right place) wasn't working...
I have now found out that their Un-Zip feature IS working... and that they must have just forgotten to tell me... 
DAMMIT!!!!
So!
This weekend, I'll begin restoring the FoI Webbie back to at least a small part of it's former self... I've got Valentine's week's off on holiday from work, so I'll use that time to try and complete as much as I can as well.
In reference to an Email I recieved about 2 days before the site went tits-up: I'm STILL adding the sheet music that we had on our last version of the Site, as I promised. ^_~
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