March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem

[Oscar]

Dear Fordson fan,

Our hosting company has moved their servers to a new location. Hosting providers have contracts with data centers, and our provider struck a new contract, so all the websites that they host (including ours) had to be moved. During that process, our forum crashed. For a wile things were looking grim - to be honest, I had anticipated a complete loss. As things are, we have lost a few recent posts but no more. If your recent posts fell between the cracks then I apologize.

The moving operation has been finished but the forum server is still fickle. You can expect periodic downtime (characterized by error messages) for the next 2 weeks or so . Eventually the wrinkles should be ironed out.

Thanks for your support, patience and understanding! Cheers!

Regards,
Oscar

[Grani]

Things like this is a reminder of how fragile computers and servers are and how important back up´s are. Luckily we did not lose anything........this time.

[Gavin]

Yes I remember a forum I used to run that was set up by the previous owner. When I took over backups were automatically run every night. I upgraded the forum to a newer version and thought no more of it until the server crashed and i found that the backup syatem was a plugin that didn't work with the newer board vesion and gave no warnings of the incomplete backups it took every night.
Live and learn

[henk]

Thanks Oscar,

Glad we are in the air again.

[Bensdexta]

Thanks for getting us back.

What back-up policy does this site operate?

[Dandy Dave]

Oh Lardy. The withdrawl symptoms, the withdraw symptoms. I can now breath again. Dandy Dave!

[The Swanndri Guy]

What Dandy Dave said x2 Nice to be back.TSG .

[Mike Kuscher]

Ben asked

What back-up policy does this site operate?

Easy! When the site goes down, it gets everybodys back up

Mike

[Jerry Coles]

When engaging reverse gear ensure you are clear behind before backing up!!

[Bensdexta]

Ben asked

What back-up policy does this site operate?

Easy! When the site goes down, it gets everybodys back up Mike

Are we April fools?

[Kiwi Kev]

The moving operation has been finished but the forum server is still fickle. You can expect periodic downtime (characterized by error messages) for the next 2 weeks or so . Eventually the wrinkles should be ironed out.

We're back up again. Lets hope it's for longer this time.