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The Great Forum Outage of 2016

Started by mIKe, 12-19-2016, 11:19 AM6 replies8,926 viewsThreaded Mode
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mIKe Funder of [mR]Lv.2 Offline 12-19-2016, 11:19 AM #1
So for the past few years we've gone through a company called Crissic.net for the Website's VPS.  On November 5th they posted this announcement to their website:

http://my.crissic.net/announcements.php?id=83

They did NOT send this announcement out via email.  So I never saw it.  On 12/5 I noticed the site was down, and I created a ticket with them and got this lovely response:

** This is an automated message. Please do not reply to this email/ticket. The Crissic brand is now closed down as of December 4, 2016 and will no longer be existent. We are keeping the Crissic website online for a few more days, however all infrastructure has already been decommissioned in full and all client data has been securely wiped out of our drives. **

So I moved the VPS over to a company that wont go under any time soon.  (Digital Ocean)  And thanks to .Lb's planning and foresight we had a backup from from Feb 2016 to restore from.   The last backup I had was from 2013 so we lost way less than we would have!  Thanks LB!!!

TLDR:  We outlived our hosting company and had to restore the site from backups. 
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.Lb RetiredLv.1 Away 12-20-2016, 07:21 AM #2
Please report any bugs!
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ssixx [ShoutBox Slut] Offline 12-20-2016, 01:54 PM #3
Thanks Lbeezy and mIKe!! You guys really are pretty fucking awesome.
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bmanrules finish each other's sandwiches Offline 12-29-2016, 12:54 PM #4
Thanks guys! Great to see everything back up and saved!

Did spot one tiny bug - the mobile site links in the menu bar are still pointing to /forum/
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Michael The Judge Offline 01-04-2017, 06:47 PM #5
Feb 2016? You mean we did it? We made it back in time?


We have to warn the rest of the world. We have to do it right this time.
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.Lb RetiredLv.1 Away 04-10-2017, 11:44 AM #6
(12-29-2016, 12:54 PM)bmanrules Wrote: Thanks guys! Great to see everything back up and saved!

Did spot one tiny bug - the mobile site links in the menu bar are still pointing to /forum/

This bug has been fixed
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bmanrules finish each other's sandwiches Offline 04-10-2017, 02:48 PM #7
Awesome, thanks Smile
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