Pseudonym Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Well, that's the good news. The bad news is that only some of us are. After our server crashed late last night, the techies have been working around the clock to restore it. Unfortunately, it appears they had to roll back several days - so any posts over the last few days will have been lost, and the 10 or so new members who registered in that time have also been lost. :cry: I'm very sorry about this. Especially as I hadn't had a chance to read Monday's posts. Please post them again if you can.If you're one of the new members whose registration was lost, please sign up again! We really do want to get to know you!Finally, rest assured we're taking steps to find out what happened, and ensure it doesn't happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBob Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Hey Pseudonym, who hosts the site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudonym Posted February 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 A company called I'm Hosted. At this stage, I'm not sure whether we'll be staying with them or not. I'd like to, because I've found their tech support to be mostly excellent. But obviously, we can't afford to lose several days' worth of topics/posts/PMs/members either. We'll see what solutions they can offer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBob Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 You have to weigh up how many problems you have had with them in the past, coupled with the reasoning for the failure - I would expect in a datacentre that the servers would be spec'd with high-redundancy components though!!! (Dual power supplies, fault-tolerant storage arrays, multiple CPU's, etc...)Good tech supp is getting hard to find with hosts though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornfed Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 A company called I'm Hosted. At this stage, I'm not sure whether we'll be staying with them or not. I'd like to, because I've found their tech support to be mostly excellent. But obviously, we can't afford to lose several days' worth of topics/posts/PMs/members either. We'll see what solutions they can offer.Probably best to stay with them for now. The whole Internet seems to have been having problems. Several of the sites I visit have been down over the last few days, and I doubt it is all I'm Hosted's fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBob Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 There were DNS resolution issues yesterday in New Zealand as Orcon had a few problems which may account for some of the sites being down... To have a server 'crash is a pretty rare event in a datacentre though!Do you lease a server itself or just a portion of a server, Pseudonym? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudonym Posted February 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Good tech supp is getting hard to find with hosts though... :nod: That is very true! I can't remember how many hosts we went through in the early days of this forum, but it was far too many!Our problems were unrelated to any DNS issues - in fact, the DNS was about the only thing that continued to work! I'm reasonably confident in the hardware this company provides - the one flaw is that they only take a backup once a week (a fact I've only just discovered). It amazes me, because they seem so good in all other respects, but allowing the loss of up to 7 days of data is very nearly unforgivable, in my currently fired up opinion!One option, if we did decide to stay with ImHosted, would be to set up a second account on a different server, and schedule our own backups transferred via FTP. It annoys me, because we shouldn't have to resort to doing it ourselves... :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted March 1, 2006 Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 Good to see the site up again will have toi try too update my journal now, been having a few problems logging on for a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBob Posted March 1, 2006 Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 Ah... The wonders of IT! I have found that if you want something done properly (especially when it comes to back-ups!!!) Do it yourself...I take it you don't have the option of sticking an external USB drive on your current server and backing up yourself to that?Will suck if you have to get another server out there though... What size is the back-up roughly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specter Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 explains why I have not been able to log back in and had to set up another profile!No probs though! :pfft: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpensiveUrine Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 I haven't been able to access the front page of nzbb.co.nz for about a week during the afternoons, could be just a bad connection though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpensiveUrine Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 I agree with Cornfed about other forums/sites having problems. Lyle's forum went down again for the second time. I know that on the first time it went down, server crashed (reason: something to do with Apache Scripts).Pseudonym so there's still no clue as to what caused NZBB to crash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBob Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 The support guys must still be consulting the Bastard Operator From Hell (check him out at http://www.theregister.co.uk) Excuse Generator to come out wth something to keep the punters happy... "Due to atmospheric interference, and teh fact that the hamster running our generator has arthritis, we had an interface flux in the main circuit which tripped the..." Well, ya know what I mean!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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