GREAT to have the forum back!

[cliffyk]

You never know how much you'll miss something 'til it's gone...

Advise your hosting service to install a dry (argon/halon) fire suppression system. 99.44% of the time with wet systems the water does more damage than the fire--this is true in almost every industry, but more so in server rooms.

-cliff-

[TapBoss]

So that's what happened!  

[Travis]

Wait what happened?

 I was getting a bit worried about if it would come back online or not.

[cliffyk]

On Sunday the 4th @ 3:00 pm or so their hosting service lost power and a generator caught fire triggering sprinklers.  (Read more here...)

Poor design, "sprinklers" and "data center" do not belong in the same sentence. They did get it back up in pretty good time all things considered...

[Alex]

54 minutes ago, cliffyk said:

On Sunday the 4th @ 3:00 pm or so their hosting service lost power and a generator caught fire triggering sprinklers.  (Read more here...)

Poor design, "sprinklers" and "data center" do not belong in the same sentence. They did get it back up in pretty good time all things considered...

Yep, took down a lot of sites.  We had a backup but needed to provision a new server and reinstall, which is not the most fun. Plus, we have been with them for 6 + years with no major issues and were hoping to be down for only a day through Monday. Happened around 6pm EST Sunday. They really couldn't definitively tell clients exactly who was most affected until Wednesday (we were).  It might be weeks still, so we got a new server yesterday with a different company to get back online asap.  We are still waiting to see what they say about our old sever or rebuild.  Overall they provided good service and affordability. You really need a good server and not just shared hosting to operate a forum and not have it lag too much. Our old server is still not up and sounds like its swimming with the fish...

I had posted some updates on facebook and twitter as I really couldn't email anyone with the server being offline.  I'm happy you guys missed it (as crazy as that sounds), makes it more worthwhile !

[cliffyk]

I have been using DirectNIC hosting  for my site (www.paladinmicro.com) for over 20 years without a hitch. They were in New Orleans during Katrina and were humping 55 gallon druns of diesel up 9 flights of stairs to keep their generators running--not down for even a millisecond--good guys. I haven't done much with my site since I retried in late 2015 but I get my email service from them and use it for file hoisting.

[Alex]

3 minutes ago, cliffyk said:

I have been using DirectNIC hosting  for my site (www.paladinmicro.com) for over 20 years without a hitch. They were in New Orleans during Katrina and were humping 55 gallon druns of diesel up 9 flights of stairs to keep their generators running--not down for even a millisecond--good guys. I haven't done much with my site since I retried in late 2015 but I get my email service from them and use it for file hoisting.

Nice! They've been around for a while, but I think its only shared hosting, no dedicate servers. We have  a dedicated self managed server so typically we are renting directly from a company that has its own data center or metal boxes. 

[cliffyk]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

Nice! They've been around for a while, but I think its only shared hosting, no dedicate servers. We have  a dedicated self managed server so typically we are renting directly from a company that has its own data center or metal boxes. 

That is correct--it's nice to be in direct control...

[ChopperPilot01]

🙂

[Dennis Knepp]

Missed you'll last weekend, this is like my Sunday paper.

 

[ChopperPilot01]

🙂

[T-boss 410]

You don't suppose that there was some data on those servers that Joey B. didn't want found? Lol, jk😎

[Travis]

1 hour ago, T-boss 410 said:

You don't suppose that there was some data on those servers that Joey B. didn't want found? Lol, jk😎

"it may or may not be mine"

[T-boss 410]

Ahhh, the man wants to be a politician in his next life!

[Joe Breaux]

On 4/8/2021 at 2:26 PM, Alex said:

Yep, took down a lot of sites.  We had a backup but needed to provision a new server and reinstall, which is not the most fun. Plus, we have been with them for 6 + years with no major issues and were hoping to be down for only a day through Monday. Happened around 6pm EST Sunday. They really couldn't definitively tell clients exactly who was most affected until Wednesday (we were).  It might be weeks still, so we got a new server yesterday with a different company to get back online asap.  We are still waiting to see what they say about our old sever or rebuild.  Overall they provided good service and affordability. You really need a good server and not just shared hosting to operate a forum and not have it lag too much. Our old server is still not up and sounds like its swimming with the fish...

I had posted some updates on facebook and twitter as I really couldn't email anyone with the server being offline.  I'm happy you guys missed it (as crazy as that sounds), makes it more worthwhile !

next time theres a fire, get 6 guys and a case of beer... problem solved 

[Joe Breaux]

5 hours ago, T-boss 410 said:

You don't suppose that there was some data on those servers that Joey B. didn't want found? Lol, jk😎

some naked drunken shots of Hunter s underage club parties in Delaware

[T-boss 410]

More pictures of him having sex with his nieces?

He's got a book out now. He's trying to play the victim. 

[Joe Breaux]

poor baby, he only got $1 Billion from China.. How will he afford enough coke for all those little  girls ?  

[T-boss 410]

I'm sure daddy can arrange for him to sit on another board of a corporation, or give him a position in his administration. After all, he certainly deserves it. 

Don't you feel bad for him? Maybe we should put together a GoFundMe page and help him out. 

[Joe Breaux]

well, he is qualified for so many positions... like Secretary of Parks, Mines and Playgrounds ...or maybe he could be head of committe to observe the rate which grass grows ...ot study the effects of sunlight on nocturnal creatures or any of those globally important things ..After all,  He was on the board of a huge Natural gas Company when the only gas he knew anything about was his own farts .. 

[T-boss 410]

He's an excellent fit as a drug czar, or I had even heard that daddy was putting him in charge of the DEA.

[Joe Breaux]

well, he does know where to get the good stuff