Server Crash

[Big Insect]

Irregular Miniatures is working fine - so I suspect that it is very much dependent upon what back-up precautions each manufacturer took (paid for) originally.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Mark - Irregular, Peter Pig, Heroics and Ros, Scotia, Pendraken are all fine. It's one site suppling services to a lot of companies that has crashed...

[Orcs]

Annoyingly, its the Blotz website I want to browse through. They are still down.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Paticence young pad-wan. A week min....

[Genom]

This is going to hit those businesses hard so I hope they can all get through until their sites come back online. 

I'm really surprised that nobody seems to be running backups though? I'd have assumed it was the responsiblity of the website developer/host, as it's unlikely that the average business owner would either know how to, or have access to the necessary files to do so.  Our web company back everything up nightly so we'd never lose more than 24 hours of orders/site updates.  For these companies to have lost their whole websites along with years' of emails seems crazy to me.

My understanding from what I've heard is the company did a server patch (standard practice), that failed and they tried to rollback, something went wrong and the backups corrupted. Bit of a vicious circle especially when your admin is away on a cruise.

[Orcs]

Paticence young pad-wan. A week min....

Hang on, your talking to a wargamer!

[Leon]

My understanding from what I've heard is the company did a server patch (standard practice), that failed and they tried to rollback, something went wrong and the backups corrupted. Bit of a vicious circle especially when your admin is away on a cruise.

Is that the server company then and wouldn't they be liable for the lost data?  As far as I know Tradestands is a one-man operation so I'd assume he's paying for a dedicated server somewhere to host all of these websites on.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'd agree with you there Leon.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Just got this one :- WEBSITE FAILURE
Hello all, I have been informed that the server hosting the QRF website, along with other companies, has suffered a catastrophic failure. This has resulted in all information being lost.



Please bear with me as I rebuild the website and get any outstanding orders out to you.



I'll update you when I have more information.



Kind regards

[Steve J]

Leven Miniatures are still down .