tell you, it was really weird, i typed forum.ld4all.com and i got some kind of religious site…
anyway, had a long chat with the helpdesk, they can’t say sorry enough, they also feel very bad about this, this has never happened before to them, that all backups are lost too… this was the only backup they had.
Bah, must be the hackers. 3 drives lost at once! Might have been a very powerful magnet too!! Say could you download the site yourself? I mean even with all the text, it’s just text and it can’t be too many megabytes!
none of the others work and i can’t get to the homepage either.
Note to Pasquale: you might have to readd the www.amazon.co.uk thing again lol.
Concidering all 3 went down it’s likely it was a virus or a hacker, as for doing your own backups this is of course a good idea. if Gzip is enabled the forum shouldn’t take up much. probably 3mg at most.
I go away for a wedding and baam! this is what happens! I’m never leaving my house again, at least till summer comes around again. Much too cold to go outside after July.
Also, if anyone is trying to log into their account and you changed your password less than two weeks ago, you may have to log in with your old password. Sorry if that’s an inconvinience!
I lost all the posts that I didn’t make about 2 months ago! Man, this sucks. Now half of my posts are gone. And there were so many interesting topics that were started, too! And I had that question in the big WILD topic that I went to check up on, and it was gone…and all those posts in the pictures topic…and that other topic…jeez, I’m not taking this very well.
If the backups really are gone…well, I guess the only thing is just to keep going. We’ll just have to start those topics over again…still sucks, though.
they said this was the first thing something like that happened to them - all RAID things had failed at once. I don’t know what RAID is but it sounds serious
it was the first time for them to have the backup lost as well, normally if something goes down they always have a backup from the day before.
Yes, i suspect it was hackers too…
btw, they have offered me one month of free hosting as compensation.
Yesterday they where busy installing all kinds of new stuff for protection and updated firewalls and what not, so that’s why everything was so slow and acted weird.
it looks like today everything is OK again…
oh darn, moogles post has disappeared It was one of my favourite posts
wow that smilie really comes in handy now.
I have never tried to to a backup with GZIP, maybe indeed this will compress it more… FYI - the last backup (no GZIP) was 168 MB.
No matter what happens something good comes out of it. When I couldn’t get to the site I looked at Sealife and the OLD forum where the ip numbers where shown…and I recnogized quite a few names. It was interesting to see the “birth” of the site.