Yikes… big time crash.

Tuesday September 9, 2003 at 11:29 pm | Filed under Site

The folks that host my servers had a big crash yesterday morning. You may have noticed, but this site was down for almost 24 hours straight! They lost two hard drives, and they just happen to be called ‘home’ and ‘backup’ — you don’t have to be all techy to know that’s not good.

All of the SQL databases were lost in this crash and the blogs that I run all used one of those. I was able to restore a file from before I converted to SQL from last October.

Things may be a little broken here and there around the site, but I’m sure you won’t notice, it’s all of the crap I use… search, archives, etc. I’ll probably add in the missing entries, since I have them in web page form (just not in database form, unfortunately), but I won’t be adding back in the comments. At least I’m not planning to. That would be a ton of work!

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No Responses to “Yikes… big time crash.”

  1. Arlen Says:
    September 10th, 2003 at 7:20 am

    Serves as proof that for now, books are still more permanent than e-texts.

    Still, I’m glad I have my Excel Faerie Queene . . .

  2. Jon Says:
    September 12th, 2003 at 9:22 am

    Ouch! That sucks the big patootie. Arlen’s site is looking pretty bare.

  3. Joe Says:
    September 12th, 2003 at 7:47 pm

    You got that right.. big patootie! Amen! Ahh well, that’ll teach us to back up this stuff, eh? Restoring all of this is a pain, but at least we have it to restore, I guess.

  4. Mark Says:
    September 15th, 2003 at 8:52 am

    Just please bring back those rap video about “Don’t copy that floppy!”.