What Happened?

[pgrzes]

Did the forum get hacked last night?

 

[JacksonV]

No, but both the main server and the back-up server both failed, which was highly unlikely to ever happen. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of the damages, but it's possible we've lost the archived data between the present and this past May. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience!

 

[mjwalsh]

No, but both the main server and the back-up server both failed, which was highly unlikely to ever happen. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of the damages, but it's possible we've lost the archived data between the present and this past May. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience!

Jackson,

I remember in some of the earlier days of the forum ... William Pitzer had his challenges. You would think that the technology would be more mature ... but that is not always the case.

 

[JacksonV]

Yes, Mike. I'm using the best server / forum administrator service provider I could find, but obviously nothing's infallible.

Again, I apologize to everyone for this.

 

[DiamondWash]

New updated website is in order????

 

[I.B. Washincars]

Again, I apologize to everyone for this.

No apology needed.

 

[2Biz]

Did you or your host do daily offsite backups of the SQL database?

 

[JacksonV]

Did you or your host do daily offsite backups of the SQL database?

The last back-up was done in May.

 

[DiamondWash]

No, but both the main server and the back-up server both failed, which was highly unlikely to ever happen. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of the damages, but it's possible we've lost the archived data between the present and this past May. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience!

So it's safe to say that we have lost 5 months of discussions?

 

[JacksonV]

Yes, that is correct.