Holy lord. What a maniacal week it's been. The company that host's this site on their servers: www.canadawebhosting.com really screwed the pooch. Not only did all their sites vanish, but their backups were mostly useless too. The only info i was given was:
"We experienced a drive failure with the RAID5 drive array for our primary file server yesterday. RAID5 is setup so that the drive array continues to work when a drive fails. However in this case the RAID5 drive array continued to function and files went missing. We have been unsuccessful in rebuilding the drive array with new drives. Last night we implemented our backup server, the backup from this server is in the same state as the primary file servers with missing files. During the changeover to the backup file server web sites and FTP were completely down. We have never experienced an issue like this, our redundant drive array failed and our backup is not 100% useful. We continue our efforts to rebuild our RAID5 drive array however at this point there is a low percentage that this will be successful. We will be adding additional hardware for the backups and re-engineering our backup systems to avoid situations like this in the future. We apoligize for this situation and we thank you for your patience and understanding. "
Made it this far, so hopefully all will be back to normal shortly. I haven't stopped working on getting this resolved ever since it went down.
Wow, after only a short while on this forum, I have realized how much it's become part of my routine. Glad we're back. And, that would be a huge, major understatement.
I was having my girlfriend check it daily while I was on the road! (Devin we have to talk
Man that ISP should use the backup software that I was just consulting on in nyc. It's gonna be a good night with pokerforum back and about a 10,000% reduction in the number of horns honking and sirens wailing.
i was very bored without the forum. I thought I got banned based on how long it was down... which was weird considering my post count is about 20 lol, I thought there was no way I said soemthing that controversial haha!
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now witch grey sqare to hit to post this message...
Hopefully it will be functioning properly in the next few hours/days...nice to be back....
stp
"We experienced a drive failure with the RAID5 drive array for our primary file server yesterday. RAID5 is setup so that the drive array continues to work when a drive fails. However in this case the RAID5 drive array continued to function and files went missing. We have been unsuccessful in rebuilding the drive array with new drives. Last night we implemented our backup server, the backup from this server is in the same state as the primary file servers with missing files. During the changeover to the backup file server web sites and FTP were completely down. We have never experienced an issue like this, our redundant drive array failed and our backup is not 100% useful. We continue our efforts to rebuild our RAID5 drive array however at this point there is a low percentage that this will be successful. We will be adding additional hardware for the backups and re-engineering our backup systems to avoid situations like this in the future. We apoligize for this situation and we thank you for your patience and understanding. "
Made it this far, so hopefully all will be back to normal shortly. I haven't stopped working on getting this resolved ever since it went down.
Good to be back!
I couldn't find the edit button:)
It was like looseing a child (well maybe not the bad---- but close).
A special thanks to Sloth... I'm sure he's been working hard during this last week or so! Thank-you!
Cheers
Magi
Man that ISP should use the backup software that I was just consulting on in nyc. It's gonna be a good night with pokerforum back and about a 10,000% reduction in the number of horns honking and sirens wailing.
thank god you came back
man it's good to be back.
YAY!
Please email me at all_aces@pokerforum.ca, as I don't think the PM system is working here yet. Thanks dude.
Devin.
i so know what you mean.
at least here when people talk about check raisin you, they do it with a smile and politely
Don't know whatcha got till it's gone.....
Oh so many songs of joy and tears of excitement....
My god I'm a pussy. Good to be back though.
Redington
infected
injected
with a worm
As someone who has lost a child, it's not exactly the same. ( I know you really weren't implying that Dead Money, so I'm not picking on you.)
That being said, it's *so* great to be back!!
macbb :canada: