To be honest, it was all handled well (other than the redundancy). After talking to the support staff, it appears both the feed-squirrel web and db servers weren't in the effected building, but a bit of network wizardry that the site is dependent on was toasted by the outage, which is kinda typical for me.
Anyways, we're now all back. Neil On 8/17/06, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I for one am pretty impressed with how quickly they've got a major > repair done, and how they have kept customers in the picture through > that page, and the photos. > > I think there are issues relating to redundancy and multiple > connections etc that need to be addressed, but given a big chunk of > thier business suddenly went dark, I thought their damage control and > reaction to the problem was pretty cool. > > Long time internet users in Australia might remember the time years > ago when there were two internet connections across the Pacific where > most of the traffic from Australia went. And a trawler dug up the > cable out of Melbourne. > > Telstra, who at the time owned all the internet connections out of > Australia, tried to pretend nothing was wrong for days, even though > anyone using the internet knew that even their slow modems were > suddenly struggling to keep up with crippled snails. Telstra > maintained for days and days that nothing was wrong, even when there > were newspaper reports that one of the two main undersea cables had > been broken. > > I suppose Telstra figured they could get away with fixing it quickly > and quietly and no one woudl know any better. > > I think HMS have shown a far better attitude, and would get much more > tolerance and cooperation from their customers as a result. > > Disclaimer: i have nothing to do with HMS, apart from having one of > my clients hosted there - in fact I'm a competitor in a minor part of > my business. > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > On 8/17/06, Dave Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think they need to be given some "thanks" because it was one of the > worst things that could happen to them and per usual they did a helluva job > in not only getting it fixed but also keeping their customers informed of > what was going on, not only in the slideshow but just the simple page that > was updated as things happened. I have yet to see if any host be able to > handle a situation like host my site did today. If it was ct they'd still be > trying to figure out why there was no internet. > > > > However, sites are supposed to rollover to other data center if/when a > issue arises and that didnt happen and I will find out why but still im > happy they are back up and going, i was so glad to get back into my mail and > see I didnt miss my chance to "be hung like the big boys at the club.." > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:250124 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
