On Easter Sunday, the data center where our server is located suffered:
A power surge, which caused A power outage, which caused Backup generators to deploy, which caused A fire in one of the backup generators, which caused Fire sprinklers to come on. News from the datacenter was slim, except to tell us that they were awaiting a city inspector on Monday to approve turning the power back on.
Unfortunately, that bit of info caused us to stand by and wait for our current server to get turned back on, which we hoped would be imminently.
As it turns out, there was more water damage at the data center than originally let on, and this morning we received the message:
"Unfortunately, this server appears to be in the section with a high probability of water damage. So it will need to be physically inspected before it can be powered on.
I'm afraid that we do not have an ETA for repair at this time."
I sure wish I would have known that Sunday or Monday!
Anyway, with that news, we decided to put our contingency plans into effect immediately. The good news is that we have a safe backup. Since this morning's news, we have deployed a new dedicated server, and we are in the process of configuring it and loading the backup. That should take ~24hours. We will lose a few hours worth of data ... the period of time between the backup and the server crashing ... but at this point I have made the decision that we cannot wait any longer to be back online, especially in light of the not-so-encouraging ETA.
We thank you for your patience. The clock is now ticking on a (belated) quick return.
UPDATE: And just as soon as I ran my card on the new server, bam, we're back up at the old datacenter ... (so no data loss ... everyhting up until the moment the datacenter went down is preserved.)
Rick Bin
THANKS RICK!!! YOUR HARD WORK IS APPRECIATED!!!
Last edited by bobinpa; 04/07/21.
I sure could go for some $2.50/gal gas and a mean tweet!
NRA Benefactor member, disgruntled. Life member: Firearms Owners Against Crime. Life member: GOA Member: RMEF
Iast time I had a power spike I lost my toaster.Oh the pain and suffering.Welcome back
Its all right to be white!! Stupidity left unattended will run rampant Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
Now this fugking retard is an expert in fire suppression systems. We here at the fire are so lucky to have this Cockwomble with us...
Don't be jealous because you lost the I.Q. lottery.
You bet Cockwomble.
Hey smokepole, I see you like talking about cock, no matter what sock puppet you are signed in on.
Wrong again stupid. I don’t even know Smokepole. Nice try though. Why don’t you try to hit a persimmon driver 300 yards with a golf ball you lying sack of crap.
See, you lied right there, just like smokee. Everyone knows smokee. How can you say you don't know a longtime member on a site, you liar? Now I know it's you, smokee, you dumb sombitch.
I was hitting balata golf balls 300+ with a persimmon driver before you were born.
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"He is far from Stupid"
”person, who happens to have an above-average level of intelligence”
Now this fugking retard is an expert in fire suppression systems. We here at the fire are so lucky to have this Cockwomble with us...
Don't be jealous because you lost the I.Q. lottery.
You bet Cockwomble.
Hey smokepole, I see you like talking about cock, no matter what sock puppet you are signed in on.
Wrong again stupid. I don’t even know Smokepole. Nice try though. Why don’t you try to hit a persimmon driver 300 yards with a golf ball you lying sack of crap.
See, you lied right there, just like smokee. Everyone knows smokee. How can you say you don't know a longtime member on a site, you liar? Now I know it's you, smokee, you dumb sombitch.
I was hitting balata golf balls 300+ with a persimmon driver before you were born.
Wrong again stupid. I know of him on this site. I don’t actually know him personally you fugking retard. You’re a liar about golf and elk hunting , etc.
Keep trying though we’re all still laughing AT you.
Now this fugking retard is an expert in fire suppression systems. We here at the fire are so lucky to have this Cockwomble with us...
Don't be jealous because you lost the I.Q. lottery.
You bet Cockwomble.
Hey smokepole, I see you like talking about cock, no matter what sock puppet you are signed in on.
Wrong again stupid. I don’t even know Smokepole. Nice try though. Why don’t you try to hit a persimmon driver 300 yards with a golf ball you lying sack of crap.
See, you lied right there, just like smokee. Everyone knows smokee. How can you say you don't know a longtime member on a site, you liar? Now I know it's you, smokee, you dumb sombitch.
I was hitting balata golf balls 300+ with a persimmon driver before you were born.
Wrong again stupid. I know of him on this site. I don’t actually know him personally you fugking retard. You’re a liar about golf and elk hunting , etc.
Keep trying though we’re all still laughing AT you.
Sure is funny how not one single person on this site has ever pointedly quoted a post of mine, and specifically pointed out where I was wrong.
Of course, you, being on the extreme left side of the bell curve, eliminates you from ever having close to the ability in doing such.
Prove me wrong you dumb sombitch. Go find where I was 100% wrong.
"He is far from Stupid"
”person, who happens to have an above-average level of intelligence”
Welcome back. Glad to see that everything survived. I was afraid that the liberal government had shut down this conservative site. Glad to see that my worst fears were not realised.
KC
Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
