Yesterday around 6PM EST or so, the hosting center where I have my server had an explosion of some type... which caused them to lose power, and it looks like it'll be a day before it comes back up. Thankfully the server is fine, but I can't access it.

This just goes to show that it's really important to have OFF SITE backups when you are running a website. Thankfully I set that up about 6 months ago... We did lose a few forum posts, since the last backup was about 6 hours before the crash.

Everything else should be fine, we shouldn't lose any more posts.

We are indeed back... I had to quickly get a new server at a different hosting provider, copy all the files up and get everything setup and running.

There's still a few problems with things not working... but it'll all be resolved shortly.

I better get a free month of hosting out of this.

So, the missing posts are gone forever? It looks like some of mine got nuked in the 'splosion and I have no backups. If I remembered to always add a thread to my favorites, and therefore RSS feed, I would be more likely to have a copy of my own replies.

Well, I think everything is operational at this point.

Once they get the data center back up and running, I'll evaluate how many posts we lost (they aren't lost, they are just on the other server). I'll try and restore them if possible... but I'm not sure how easy that will be.

If you are curious, all the details on the explosion are here: http://forums.theplanet.com/in.....opic=90185

I'll look at that... for me it shows the correct time, but the problem is likely because this server is in a different timezone than the regular server is.

I was going to say that i was wondering where some of my posts went!

wow looks like i missed a bit here huh?

For more on the problem, it was also covered on slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/.....5247.shtml

jack what HAS happened to your internet?
I guess your on at school as your write these?