Thread: Database Failure

You're amazing David. Just as amazing a Joe.

Three cheers for David and Joe!

hip-hip ....

Originally Posted by Queen of Blades

By all means, Mark.

Can I spell it funny though?

You'll notice the handle under my user title? That's the proper spelling!

Originally Posted by JMS

You'll notice the handle under my user title? That's the proper spelling!

Usagi Yojimbo, Rabbit Bodyguard, huh?

Got a story behind it?

I prefer samurai Rabbit! Usagi Yojimbo is a Japanese cartoon character from the 60s or 70s! My Father used to call me crusader rabbit and my mother, being Japanese, raised me on samurai ideals intermingled with Christian principals! So the name fit what my father called me and how my mother raised me!

Thanks guys! Not a moment too soon -- I've been talking up SRP over at the Motley Fool forums...

- Scott

Well I am back and again a Junior Member.
Good to see the site back up.

I've lost a little over 100 posts. I would like a full refund. Thanks much.

Bah ... servers and forums (all their myriad elements) can go through hell sometimes.

FYI -- We received an apology from Site5 (our hosting company) today... following is an excerpt:

Everyone at Site5 apologizes profusely for this situation; you can rest assured knowing that we are doing everything we can to prevent this from happening again in the future. As this email is being drawn up, Site5's Director of Technical Operations, [name deleted], is working closely with our technical managers and dedicated teams from our new datacenter, ThePlanet, preparing to launch an all new backup system for our servers by the end of the month. This new system will help to ensure the integrity of our fleet-wide backups, as well as maintain up to date backups of all your account's files and databases.

And, they issued us a generous credit. It's refreshing to see a company actually take responsibility for their actions when they screw up.

Originally Posted by Bart

Of course I realize fully that these things are generally no ones fault.

On the contrary.
In this case, SRP is a non-profit site, so apart from the annoyance, no money was lost.

But for any operation who depends on the uptime of the host to make money, there will now be a game of 'pin the blame on the donkey' to see who exactly is responsible.

Well I finaly made it back...luckly I didn't loose much!