I don't think they were hosted on a windows server, but... yeah, if they were, that's inevitable. Linux is a lot more forgiving. Of course that doesn't explain why the only source for backups after it's done is the host. They tell you to keep your own for a reason... or should.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-gamers@groups.io <blind-gamers@groups.io> On Behalf Of Shaun Everiss Sent: September-09-18 9:19 PM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] its back Well I doubt this is all the story, domains expire, things are upgraded, so what nothing goes wrong. Ofcause if no one knew and the damn thing was syncing at the time, then that could be a problem. Drives can fail I had a datacentre take out the net because of hardware issues. And lets face it, windows does not respond well if its updating or doing just about anything when something screws up. I have ups units now but I had a power outage randomly, lets just say, everything from the workstations to the servers needed a full reformat after that. They were not dammaged at all, far from it, but all the dates were reset, so nothing worked, and even with them set the security software was screwed because it had no idea and needed reinstalling, there were a cascade of issues all from that and I needed to reformat to make it all work again properly. I have serge protecters now and ups units and multiple backups as well as critical file backup to dropbox but I have had for the hell of it, asked the question, what if windows fails during an update due to power failier. The short answer is it can't happen or rather its not a good idea to have windows ever loose power for any reason. In most cases you could restart but there was a chance of corruption, to fix an error with windows in this situation a reformat is required, so who knows. I have had routers fail in the middle of things, I have had systems with compromised security mainly because of obselete wireless hardware, there are probably loads of reasons to this, we will not get the full story, I suspect though that there was a server upgrade, no one was told or they were not aware of it and they were in the midst of a backup or something. On 9/10/2018 11:35 AM, Desiree Oudinot wrote: > I see. Well, in that case, I'm confused as to what happened. I'm no > expert on these things, far from it, in fact. From the amount of > backlash I'm seeing, though, this must be a pretty serious problem. > > On 9/9/2018 7:20 PM, john wrote: >> A dns change does not damage a server's content. Posts should still >> be there. >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Desiree Oudinot" <turtlepowe...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2018 19:04 >> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> >> Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] its back >> >> Yes, I agree, and losing a bit over two weeks' worth of posts just >> plain sucks. >> >> >> I know there were a couple of new game releases in that time, which >> developers now have to announce over again. And it can feel pretty >> disheartening to lose some of your posts, even as a normal member >> such as myself. >> >> >> Things happen, and I'm not blaming the admins, now that we know what >> the problem is. However, this is ridiculous, there's no other word for it. >> >> On 9/9/2018 6:41 PM, Jack Falejjczyk wrote: >>> If the host promises backups as part of their plan that's being paid >>> for, then that's ridiculous. They should be making themselves more >>> reachable. >>> >>> On 9/9/18, Shaun Everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi. >>>> >>>> Well the forum is back now, no one seems to be posting. >>>> >>>> The latest message is the host is not responding so they will just >>>> miss >>>> 2 weeks of posts and continue now. >>>> >>>> Audiogames.net is back now. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> . >>> >> >> >> >> >> . >> > > > > . > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119628): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119628 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/25432967/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
