WinCustomize: Total Melt Down
It was very...VERY close
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Yesterday we had a total melt down of one of the machines and the FULL master database on another machine. In short, everything was lost.
Luckily, we do daily back-ups. Had there been no backup, there'd be no more WinCustomize or forums or JoeUser. It was the most serious system failure we've ever had. The daily backups of course mean we lost everything that happened yesterday -- orders, posts, skins, you name it.
It's also another reason why WinCustomize subscriptions are so important. Thanks to subscribers, we have the extra hardware to do those backups. If we had even more subscribers, we could do real-time mirroring of these kinds of things and the melt down would not have even lost anything. But last night, the end of WinCustomize as we knew it came very close. Thank you subscribers for having provided the funds to have the extra hardware for us to be able to do daily backups and be able to quickly bring the site back.
In the meantime, you will find that there are weird errors as some indexes are wrong and that kind of thing. We'll be trying to address that in the coming days.
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Reply #42 Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:20 PM
Reply #43 Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:37 PM
Reply #44 Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:41 PM
| Backup, people. WHEN you lose everything you'll know why that phrase is soooo important... |
Word. I've been there. Now I have a second external HD, and I backup when ever it strikes my fancy.
Glad to see WC survived this!
Reply #46 Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:06 PM
Reply #47 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:13 AM
Excellent job at restoring and getting back up!DD
Reply #48 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:33 AM
Must admit to going through severe withdrawels when I couldn't log in to WC last night
Reply #49 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:05 AM
Reply #50 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:55 AM
There's life in the old girl yet 
Great work by T-Man and crew to get everything working again
Reply #51 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:33 AM
glad i now subscribe to browser
Reply #52 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:48 AM
Reply #54 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:11 AM
...someone's gotta take the fall
Great work getting our favorite site back up and running, T-Man et al. Thanks for a speedy recovery too
Reply #56 Friday, October 28, 2005 12:30 AM
Its a good thing that daily back-ups are a part of the routine, then.Truly happy to hear that the chameleon is back on all fours!!
Reply #57 Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:29 PM
I just had to show my support for WinCustomize.
All of my favorite skins have come from here!
Good luck for 1000 subs!
Reply #59 Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:38 PM
| ...blame the Troll! ...someone's gotta take the fall |
Wasn't me!
I've been too busy trying to get my Throbber to work properly.
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Reply #41 Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:45 PM