And We're Back...
That was probably the most frustrating 24 hours on record, but, mediatemple have been more than supportive in what was a whole bunch of hardware problems their end. We've moved to new servers that shouldn't have this kind of down time in future.
We've been keeping twitter updated the entire time with news as we got it and llllost has been humming along with updates too. So we weren't really gone at all!
Hope you guys are OK and we didn't miss too much today?
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griffinpug5 — 3 Years ago
The best thing is this all happens automatically, all of the time. As you can guess, it's pretty complicated (ask yourself the question, if someone posts a forum topic, how does it merge across all the servers?). This is also the reason for the downtime we just had, the original servers were experimental and while the new servers are still experimental, they're based on the lessons learned from the original versions.
Any problems we could face in the future will hopefully be much more contained and I can confirm that we're fully moved to the new servers as of now.
In answer to ProjectFinale, we set-up automated backups to the Amazon S3 servers every night and take local and distributed copies in the morning. The worst case scenario is we have to go back a single day.
Luckily, MediaTemple also take their own backups too so we're covering a number of bases just-in-case. meridimus — 3 Years ago
I use hostmonster personally for my little site :) A lot of disk and bandwidth :o pianite — 3 Years ago
What's your site? meridimus — 3 Years ago
Any suggestions?
And its sort of a personal site for the time being, sorry :( pianite — 3 Years ago
out please! miniclip2156 — 3 Years ago
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