GO! Smell the coffee?
March 11th, 2008 by JimSo, picture the scene.
We press the GO! button on BLOG idol and shout it all over the world and within minutes our beloved host 1&1 crashed on us! As the emails came in we couldn’t access this site or work out why. Then it got worse - our entire content over the blog (1,380 posts, 28,000 ish comments)vanished as our admin showed 0 comments and 0 posts.
Our heart sank, our inbox buzzed from fellow flowers pointing out that the site was down as our garden suddenly became a secret one.
“It’s OK - assured RYK in Bombay - we’ve backed everything up”
So, as RYK and the gang GO! drink the coffee and rebuild flowers we apologise for any disruption and if you’ve lost comments on recent posts just as it was getting exciting. We’re hoping to recapture everything and we’ll know in the next few hours as BLOG idol continues!
So, when was the last heart sinking moment you had? Do tell, coffee optional.
My heart sunk a couple of weeks ago when my .com was hacked into…I haven’t been quite the same because I lost EVERYTHING…and I didn’t backup. So I am trying to plug on like nothing happened…but it’s not easy. So whoever hacked my site and ruined me got what they wanted.
Taylor Blue’s last blog post..Natalie Portman on the April 2008 Elle Cover
WE well remember that Taylorblue and now can relate to what you went through….
We’ve sat staring at the screen here for hours (no change there then) trying to put things into perspective….
Have you any chance of recovery?
Nope..I just transfered what I had at blogspot… and started everything again. IT makes me upset…everyday…and I am most upset about my Heath Ledger stuff gone. The rest I don’t care about.
Taylor Blue’s last blog post..Is Britney Spears Pregnant?
OH dammit - THAT heath ledger post…..
Well keep sharing how you move forward on this one Taylor Blue - it’ll inspire plenty of others
There are some serious issues with 1 & 1 today. There has been no response from them to their downtime and data corruption. We are currently working off a back-up taken nearly 10 hrs back. We are simultaneously trying to manually restore the corrupted database and that is tough.
In the past few weeks we had has other issues with 1 & 1, mostly with their database set-up with the server dropping and giving a Sever 500 error which you may have come across.
We are making plans to move from 1 & 1 to Flora2000/Orios cluster which is highly redundant and is internally administered to very high standards for the best possible quality.
Ofcourse given that Blog Idol launched today this is bad news. We will try and shift with minimum disruption by Saturday.
Awesome RYK and a big thanks to all the gang for turning this around so quickly….
You’ve saved the community here today, no joke.
Faced with 0 comments, 0 posts and no content we thought it was the end…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbgB6X6S5c
LOL Jim n Em
and RYK: You and your gang are the tops.
Mike’s last blog post..BLOG idol
Yikes! I am slightly paranoid about things like backups, and create them for everything. I now get my blog emailed to me every day, to a Gmail account, which means I have a local and remote copy. I have the template and blog software on my hard drive too. Thankfully, I’ve never needed it, but it’s very nice to know it’s there if I ever do.
Solomon Broad’s last blog post..Things I’m Grateful For on Tuesday 11 March
Good for you Solomon, a wise move!
since it’s been a tough day I’m going to give those of you using Firefox a present:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/13165/tab_effect-1.1-fx.xpi
Click that and install it. If you get a yellow strip on top asking for permission before install then give the permission
After install restart. Then open up 5 tabs (Ctrl + T opens a tab)and load pages into each of them, keep switching between tabs and watch the fun.
That is just cool…. RYK…. is there any other effects….. very cool..
aussiecynic’s last blog post..Thanks Paul I Got Tagged
don’t be greedy AC !
Didn’t work at my end
The downloaded file is apparently not “openable”
arvind’s last blog post..Get my Book - and only Pay What YOU Like!
Oops, that was me, sorry… I was typing a comment on the missing test post and it wouldn’t save, I musta said something the server didn’t like. I do know I was disagreeing with RYK but lost interest after the crash. Once again, my sincere apologies
Carl in Spain’s last blog post..Google Feed Reader not Working?
Hi there Carl
Welcome …. to the garden…
Thanks for stopping by
aussiecynic’s last blog post..Thanks Paul I Got Tagged
Hey no worries Carl - it wasn’t any content or attitude issue here at all - its all the trouble with the host, 1&1 - great to see you back!!
I had jsut reloaded the page last night when it went… and I had been getting the error 500 message, had just put that one down to a bug as you guys where working so hard to get flowers right just put it down to maintenance….
Have had happen to me but was a hacker not a server crash….. All will be good….
aussiecynic’s last blog post..Thanks Paul I Got Tagged
Cheers AC…
Pulse rate returning to normal now…..thanks for your support and your heads up email bud!
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