March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
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
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
Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
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.
Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
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.
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Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
Thanks Oscar,
Glad we are in the air again.
Glad we are in the air again.
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Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
Thanks for getting us back.
What back-up policy does this site operate?
What back-up policy does this site operate?
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Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
Oh Lardy. The withdrawl symptoms, the withdraw symptoms. I can now breath again. Dandy Dave!
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What Dandy Dave said x2 Nice to be back.TSG .
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Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
Ben asked
Mike
Easy! When the site goes down, it gets everybodys back upWhat back-up policy does this site operate?
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When engaging reverse gear ensure you are clear behind before backing up!!
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Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
Are we April fools?Mike Kuscher wrote:Ben askedEasy! When the site goes down, it gets everybodys back up MikeWhat back-up policy does this site operate?
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Re: March 29, 2011 - Forum back up after technical problem
We're back up again. Lets hope it's for longer this time.Oscar wrote:
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.
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