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Forum Down! - Daniel Shane - 16 Feb 2009
Hi All,
We are very sorry about the loss of the forum for today.
Our old hosting company Lycos, Thats the people who hold and serve our website and forum, decided a few months ago to close and offered us a "EASY" move to a new hosting company. All of this was signed for and agreed by Chris but it looks like today they decided to just pull the plug without any warning and without moving our data across to the new company.
As such they have lost ALL of out data for the last month. I keep monthly backup's of the site so i have spent tonight moving our last back up from the 15 of Jan onto a new server that has all of it's instructions completely in German !
Anyway Im going to see if either myself or Paul have a newer backup and if so restore that one.
Again sorry for the loss of service but we had no deadline nor warning !
Dan
Re: Forum Down! - ChrisS - 17 Feb 2009
Wow, top work that man
Re: Forum Down! - Dan6457 - 17 Feb 2009
I had a PM come through then logged in to check it and its all gone! Who sent it?? :lol:
Re: Forum Down! - jerzybondov - 17 Feb 2009
No worries Dan (Shane!). These things happen, and are very annoying when they do. Happened to my company's website twice!
And anybody notice the irony of the 'new posts' page? It's like we've gone back in time
Re: Forum Down! - Chris Williams - 17 Feb 2009
HI Everyone,
Just to repeat what Dan wrote above really. It was unfortunate that our hosting provider had decided to close that side of there business, and give us an extra headache (well Dan and Paul really) of moving providers. Everything was set up (fortunatly) but Lycos decided, without giving any warning that they would close there servers down overnight. Whilst we were aware it was going to happen it would of been nice to have had some warning! Apologies for any lost postings on the forum and thanks to Dan & Paul for giving up there free time to get things going again.
Chris
Re: Forum Down! - Guinney1971 - 17 Feb 2009
top work by Dan Shane (and everyone else involved) - shame that these things happen,
but when we are at the mercy of 'third parties'..... :roll:
Re: Forum Down! - Chris Hawes - 17 Feb 2009
Well done Dan and Paul for recovering everything so quick. Much appreciated
Re: Forum Down! - NickT - 17 Feb 2009
Nice work in retrieving the data from the hosting
NickT
Re: Forum Down! - hana 5284 - 17 Feb 2009
my wife and i thought we had been hacked by the ferarri owners club uk or some one.
great job chaps
Tyson