Hello Everyone, As some of you are now aware the USA Games website is currently down do to technical problems. Last week our webhost, Skynet Communications, subcontracted with another company, Dreamhost, who took over the USA Games webhosting service, for Skynet. As a result last weekend our account including files, lists, etc were moved over to one of the new Dreamhost servers. Unfortunately, yesterday there seems to have been some kind of mix up regarding our account with them and they deleted the USA Games account from their server by mistake. As we had just moved to them last week Dreamhost does not have a backup of the USA Games account, and after the transfer was completed Skynet no longer has a current backup of the USA Games account either. This has resulted in the complete and total loss of the USA Games website, mailing lists, games, and everything else to do with the USA Games website on their end. Skynet is willing to settle for financial and punitive damages to USA Games Interactive, and are working with us to get the site back up and running as soon as possible.
As matters currently stand Skynet has located an older backup of our website from December which they are willing to use to restore the account to working order. At this time they are restoring that backup, moving our account back to one of their primary servers, and they expect to have the account up and running by Friday morning Eastern Standard Time. Once we know the account is setup and working using their backups I will manually reset and reinstall the account using local backups prior to the move which should get the website, lists, etc backup and running with a more or less current version of the website. We are fortunate that we do have these local backups for this sort of emergency so the crisis isn't is bad as it could have been. However, since all of this will take considerable time and effort we don't expect to be back up and online officially until Monday earliest. So we would appreciate it if you guys stay clear of the website until we make an official announcement that things are in working order once again. P.S. We would also appreciate it if you would share this news with others who you know who are not on the Audyssey mailing list and let them know what is happening. Sincerely, Thomas Ward President of USA Games Interactive --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.