Major Site Crash

We had a major site crash at 9:15 this morning and were down most of the day. When they brought it back up, two years worth of posts were missing, which shows the folly of depending on anyone's backups but your own.

Of course I pull daily backups to my own server and I think I have most everything restored now, but if anything odd happens, please do let me know.

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Mon Feb 11 22:17:29 2008:   TonyLawrence


And that sure makes me think even more about http://aplawrence.com/Linux/self-hosting.html





Mon Feb 11 23:37:55 2008:   TonyLawrence


They tell me that they backup weekly, so the tech must have accidentally grabbed an old backup set..

The other silly thing was that they were sending me updates on their progress all along, but sending them to my aplawrence.com address (yes, they have my gmail account) so I never saw them until it was back up.

All very stressful.



Wed Feb 13 00:44:05 2008:   TonyLawrence


Having trouble with Feedburner since the crash.. feeds are out of date.. FB is regularly picking up the feeds and I am updating them but they aren't updating at their end.. I just now "Resynced" - hope that works..



Wed Feb 13 13:16:16 2008:   BigDumbDinosaur
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And that sure makes me think even more about http://aplawrence.com/Linux/self-hosting.html

Amen to that! Something goes haywire around here I have everything I need to fix it. No phone calls needed (unless the ISP conks out).



Wed Feb 13 13:27:07 2008:   TonyLawrence


Ayup, I'm going to do it. I'm assembling the hardware now..

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