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Post by Sephiroth X on Jun 2, 2008 14:44:32 GMT -5
As all of you know by now ProBoards was experiencing server issues that caused a loss of many message boards, DZX being one of them.
Anybody who managed to post earlier today when rollback server data was used, those posts are more than likely deleted at this point as the current data appears to be back up and running.
As of this point I would deem it ok to continue posting on the forums and I will periodically check on the main Proboards site to see if any furter updates are on the horizon. However, if you are going to make a post that has information you do not wish to lose (Ex: PLRPG posts or Anime Con information) please keep a backup copy of your posts for the next 24-48 hours until we can guarantee that everything running smoothly on ProBoards.
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Post by AltruisticCrono on Jun 2, 2008 14:47:02 GMT -5
For those who do not know, this is the response from ProBoards as to why our forum was down:
================== From Doug Erwin:5/31/08 This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.
We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.
This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.
We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well.
There is no impact in any of our other five data centers.
I am sorry that this accident has occurred and I apologize for the impact. ===================
It doesn't look like any of our threads are missing, but perhaps we could organize a PLRPG story backup in case something bad happens in the future?
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Post by Sephiroth X on Jun 2, 2008 14:57:10 GMT -5
It doesn't look like any of our threads are missing, but perhaps we could organize a PLRPG story backup in case something bad happens in the future? Probably wouldnt be that bad of an idea considering we already had one substantial loss of PLRPG data thanks to our times on EZBoards. I'll put a notice down in the PLRPG Fandom Forum to try and organize an effort to back up everything.
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Post by Monochrome Rainbow on Jun 2, 2008 19:25:05 GMT -5
As all of you know by now ProBoards was experiencing server issues that caused a loss of many message boards, DZX being one of them. Anybody who managed to post earlier today when rollback server data was used, those posts are more than likely deleted at this point as the current data appears to be back up and running. As of this point I would deem it ok to continue posting on the forums and I will periodically check on the main Proboards site to see if any furter updates are on the horizon. However, if you are going to make a post that has information you do not wish to lose (Ex: PLRPG posts or Anime Con information) please keep a backup copy of your posts for the next 24-48 hours until we can guarantee that everything running smoothly on ProBoards. you said furter.
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Post by remixedcat on Jun 2, 2008 21:36:51 GMT -5
How often do you all do local backups where you go to the admin panel and backup your DBs and download them to your computer? You may want to do it more frequently. He he. I just hope all is well with DZX! The planet handled it very nicely though and you got a new server after all that.
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