Downtime Today (11/04/04)

[andy]

Hi,

As many of you are no doubt aware Tropicalfishforums were down for approximately 4 hours this afternoon.

This was due to a disk failure in the server powering it.

We have moved the site to a brand new server, and have tried to ensure by restoring from our most recent backups that no data has been lost.

We think everything is now working correctly - if you have any problems, or find any problems on the site, please let us know, and they will be fixed ASAP.

A side effect of this, is the server changed IP address again - this was something which was going to have to happen in the next few weeks anyway, and we took the already caused downtime, to update DNS records to the new IP address.

thanks for using and continuing to use tropical fish forums,

oh and the new server should be slightly faster

Andy

 

[William]

Thanks everyone for the emails and messages of support, I was rather innundated with them, and as such did not have time to reply to all of them, so instead I'll just say thanks for alerting me to the situation so swiftly and glad we were able to rectify it. I'd just like to say thanks to Andy, for his very swift work and not losing any data, onto this new system. Thanks mate .

P.S. like andy said, now the server is not a 2.0ghz, its a 2.4ghz

Thanks everyone and sorry for inconvenience, it was just one of those things, bad luck
William