LonnieS
03-28-2003, 06:00 AM
Last night - still not sure exactly what time - the website crashed pretty hard. My eyes are blood shot because I was up until the early morning trying to get a hold of the web host in downtown Seattle. I never reached anyone, and still no one has replied.
This is all I know so far. Some time after 10:00 PM the website went offline. When it came back online - nothing was there, only some sort of test page. As of 3:30 AM this morning I gave up and went to sleep. I've been busy with work all morning so I didn't have a chance to deal with it until now and I have a flood of questions about what happened. Two weeks ago someone who also had an account with the same web host in Seattle was caught "abusing the system" (not sure what he/she was doing). Now, two weeks later our site takes a nose dive. Trust me, whatever you're feeling, I'm feeling 100-times worse.
The problem with a bad crash is that the web host is forced to use backup tapes to restore files. The files will only be as new as they were when the tape was ran - just like a video tape. I'm not sure how often the tapes run, but not often enough to replenish the posts that were left last evening.
Anyone who was wondering if I got on here and deleted posts - I did not. Other posts from various topics like an electric fan were lost as well. The only reason I would delete a post is if there was harsh profanity or vulgarity in it, and since we're all sweet, God-fearing Christians ;D that would never happen. ;) *joke* but seriously, it was a technical issue with the web host which I hope has been resolved now.
Hang in there GTO brothers and sisters, keep the faith.
This is all I know so far. Some time after 10:00 PM the website went offline. When it came back online - nothing was there, only some sort of test page. As of 3:30 AM this morning I gave up and went to sleep. I've been busy with work all morning so I didn't have a chance to deal with it until now and I have a flood of questions about what happened. Two weeks ago someone who also had an account with the same web host in Seattle was caught "abusing the system" (not sure what he/she was doing). Now, two weeks later our site takes a nose dive. Trust me, whatever you're feeling, I'm feeling 100-times worse.
The problem with a bad crash is that the web host is forced to use backup tapes to restore files. The files will only be as new as they were when the tape was ran - just like a video tape. I'm not sure how often the tapes run, but not often enough to replenish the posts that were left last evening.
Anyone who was wondering if I got on here and deleted posts - I did not. Other posts from various topics like an electric fan were lost as well. The only reason I would delete a post is if there was harsh profanity or vulgarity in it, and since we're all sweet, God-fearing Christians ;D that would never happen. ;) *joke* but seriously, it was a technical issue with the web host which I hope has been resolved now.
Hang in there GTO brothers and sisters, keep the faith.