Anyone Else Lose Their Website Yesterday?

[foto_fool]

My commercial site and email have been down since 3 pm yesterday - it has been chalked up to "human error" at a major datacenter in Florida. Someone probably backed a forklift into a server rack :bang:.

I've talked to a few other folks who lost their hosting service, and even more who noitced a big slowdown in net traffic.

Anyone else lose their service? Maybe this had somethig to do with the noticible slowdown here at RFF (that has since improved dramatically - yea!).

 

[wgerrard]

Three cables serving the Middle East have been cut. If your server is physically in that region you may have been affected. Presumably, traffic is being rerouted while repairs are underway, which might produce some slowdown elsewhere. (A big chunk of the world's net traffic still goes through the U.S., even if that's not the destination or point of origin.)

 

[foto_fool]

Turns out it was an unqualified pebkac who accidentally erased several web hosting service accounts - including backup files. OH, THE HUMANITY!

For the last 4 hours I have been scrambling to recreate my site. At the very least I have lost a couple of months of site updates and two years of blog. I'm so frustrated that I just want to crawl around the outside of a whole bottle of vodka and spend the rest of the night throwing up.

 

[bmattock]

Turns out it was an unqualified pebkac who accidentally erased several web hosting service accounts - including backup files. OH, THE HUMANITY!

For the last 4 hours I have been scrambling to recreate my site. At the very least I have lost a couple of months of site updates and two years of blog. I'm so frustrated that I just want to crawl around the outside of a whole bottle of vodka and spend the rest of the night throwing up.

Sorry to hear it. All might not be lost, try here:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

They archive a lot of stuff.

Best of luck!

 

[cmedin]

Sounds like you need a new provider. The backups should not be readily accessible to be deleted like that.

 

[foto_fool]

My provider has already migrated all their accounts to a new datacenter with faster, multiply-redundant, load-sharing servers and better security procedures. They had no idea such a foul-up was possible, either. Lawyers are already involved. The old datacenter is clearly at fault and liable, and their insurance should cover our damage and losses. One hopes.

 

[bmattock]

Did you have any luck with the Wayback Machine?

 

[foto_fool]

I sent the archive.org link (thanks, BTW) to my coder. There were some pages available up to August 2007. Most of the site is written in php and what's still missing are some sql data and images. These weren't archived. I was able to recover the blog contents from Blogger and from our sql bakups, but the images and videos will take more time to restore. Our coders are having to build a new .ht file from scratch to link to existing bookmarks. I've done all I can for the day. I'm going drinking now.

 

[cmedin]

My provider has already migrated all their accounts to a new datacenter with faster, multiply-redundant, load-sharing servers and better security procedures. They had no idea such a foul-up was possible, either. Lawyers are already involved. The old datacenter is clearly at fault and liable, and their insurance should cover our damage and losses. One hopes.

Being a datacenter of any size and not having offsite backups is simply unacceptable. You can have massive redundancy but it still won't protect against a huiman screwup/mischief.

Sorry for your loss.