Thank you all for the info. Hopefully it will all soon come back to normal. Meanwhile I'll go on with my self-punishment for not backing-up. M. ----------------------------------------------- Manuel Cárdenas Dpto. Geometria y Topologia Facultad de Matemáticas Universidad de Sevilla P.O.Box 1160. 41080-Sevilla Spain Ph.: (34) 954557966 FAX: (34) 954557970 [email protected] http://personal.us.es/mcard -----------------------------------------------
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 21, 6:16 am, ramkikura <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is anyone else having problems with Tiddlyspot? The main page > > tiddlyspot.com seems to be down. The pages I have hosted on tiddlyspot > are > > shown very slowly and I've noticed they correspond to a month old > versions > > at least. > > Tiddlyspot.com AND TiddlyTools.com are both hosted on DreamHost. The > following notice was posted by DreamHost Support to the control panel > for the account: > > ----------------- > You are receiving this message because your web hosting services are > being affected by hardware maintenance due to issues with your shared > web hosting server '...'. > > Due to issues with the RAID controller, we have replaced the hardware > for this server and we are restoring all data from our backup server > to the new hardware. During this process, the data on the backup > server will be mounted directly over NFS to allow your hosting > services to remain online for the duration of the process. > > There may be periods of high load on the server due to this > restoration, which is caused by the large amount of data being sent to > the server. We will be closely monitoring the server and mitigating > that load wherever possible. > > We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this unplanned > maintenance. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact > Support under Support -- Contact Support, in your Web Panel. This > notice will also appear on that page in your Web Panel and will be > updated throughout the process with the latest details we can provide. > > Please note, this is regarding your web server '...', and no other > servers or services (mysql, email) have been affected. > > Update: unfortunately, due to the state of the backups, even after > establishing the connection to serve and restore your data, you may be > experiencing downtime. Despite several attempts, the load is very high > on the server, and it's timing out sites. We continue looking into > this, and we apologize for any inconvenience this is causing. > -------------------- > > > So, they are working on the problem... just wait it out.. things may > be slow for a few more hours, but they should return to normal in a > little while. Note: I'm not sure how often DreamHost backs up the > shared hosting server. Unfortunately, backups of the most recently > changed TW documents *might* not have been performed before the RAID > controller failed, so some recent changes may have been lost when > DreamHost did the "restore from backups" activity as they reported. > > -e > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
