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I was thinking of elaborating what happened in a thread here, but after two days of recovery I don't really think I care too  :D
The very short version is:
Total server meltdown(e.g fried harddrives), corrupt data in the database etc etc...
Two days later and we are hopefully!? up and running again with a loss of 26 threads (probably newest), and 284 posts. This is actually a good thing, because two hours ago I was back to a June backup of the database!

I appologize strongly for the mishap and have now moved this forum to a webhotel provider which should hopefully prevent this from happening again.
Added cost, but better sleep at night for me and a more stable service for you:-)

Glad to be back online!
Please report anything suspisious to me on PM or email trd@adbsys.no

Thanks

Hey! Great news is its BACK!!!!!

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Hey, am I the first to post???? If so, do I get a prize or something?

GOOD work on getting it back up and Online, can't imagine the amount of work it must take, GOOD EFFORT ;D

Don't think you need to apologise Trond, I think everyone will be along to thank you shortly.... Cheers for all the hard work.

Thanks for all your hard work Trond!

Wow... I really missed my daily stroll through the Lounge ;)

(Thanks for the spell check option)

~Dave

Haha, scary/funny part is that I have no idea where that came from... hehe.. Probably turned off earlier?
But if it works, nice to have....

No Jamie, you made it worse by keep hitting refresh page all the time  ;)

Nice to see it back up and running Trond  ;D

Indeed good to be online again, was starting to get cold turkey of the daily habit.

If it is more cost, is there any way we could help out? I'm willing to send you my old mac G3 to add to the server park  ;D

Thanks for the hard work and aggravation on our behalf.  Is there anything we can help with?

Yes, enjoy it daily :-)

Well done Trond , I was starting to get lounge withdrawal symptom's  :D
Is there anything we can do to help prevent this happening again i,e deleting excess message's stored etc ?
Glenn .

And productivity across the globe plummets.  ;D

Thanks for the hard work and getting this back up. Stuff like this is why I quit being a sys admin a long time ago. (Well that and dealing with annoying users.)

--louis

Hehe, not thats not needed :-) We have plenty of space available.
I have run this forum on my own private server since we started, and lately we have had some problems with the server, most likely due to multipe power cuts. Harddrives don't like that too much, databases neither :-) It was finally enough.
I have a new IBM eBusiness server waiting to be installed, but I figured a webhotel would be better. Less to worry about at least :-)

go figure ;-)

No worries, you all do a fantastic job!

Thanks for hanging in there Trond! And thanks for hosting the forum for all these years, if we can find a way to pay for the web hotel I guess it's the way forward...!

These last days at work have been hell... but productive :-\

Ive got a good way to help pay , charge for classified ad's  ;)
I wouldn't mind a small charge and it would stop the mercenary one post's from going straight to the classifieds  >:(

That or we could just paypal a couple of bucks each to trond to help pay for it, if everyone gives a little it wouldn't kill anybody financially

I'm glad it's back,I didn't know what to do  ;D

Cooooooooool we are back ! Thanks to the cal-look.no team  ;).

If you ever need any server kit donated let me know allways have stuff going through my hands :)

Rob

x2

Hopefully the new location has all amenities enjoyed by those who attended SCC2009 -- alarm clocks that sounded like IDA'd engines, plenty of beer/brown cheese, and fish ponds... ;D

Thanks a bunch for getting things up and running again, as well as making the server change - it's much appreciated! (http://cal-look.no/lounge/Themes/babylon/images/post/thumbup.gif) (http://cal-look.no/lounge/Themes/babylon/images/post/thumbup.gif)

--Eric

Thanks for all the hard work Trond, really appreciated!!!

Trond, you said there was corruption; possibly from an infected photo, maybe? I hope the new server will let you rest a little easier! And, THANKS!

No, It wasnt a virus or anything. The database and harddrives doesnt like suddenly beeing without power  :o ::). When this happens weekly over a period due to power cuts and UPS with battery failure.. well.. nuff said...= headache.
New server was almost ready to take over, but I was too late :-(
Ah well... Shit happens, at least we didnt loose to much. My other Norwegian forum is worse, 50% of threads are gone in the corrupt database and nearest backup without corruption is June.. Working on that now.. Will see how that goes....

You`re doing one hell of a job Trond, THANKS!

Well done trond

PM Sent

Thanks Trond!

Hello Trond, lately I have been getting quite some posts with missing images (even where I could see them before, like the FDK/Hurry camper thread). Could this have something to do with the move of server?

By the way I'm on Mac and Safari. Not always the best combination for web related stuff, but great to test with  ;D

I get the same thing on my mac, but I can´t explain why it happens. If you click on the hyperlink right below the missing picture it works...

phew, i had to spend a few days doing some work!

BTW,,,seems like the top ten bus list, got lost with the server crash  :D

THANKYOU Trond - you do one hell of a job looking after our little forum - THANKYOU DUDE  ;D

P.S I for one would be willing to pay some kinda fee for classifieds etc - might be worth thinking about :-\ :)

Charging a few pounds/euros/bucks/whatever for classifieds sounds a good idea. It doesn't have to be fortunes, and it will help to keep this place running  ;)