2019-04-25, 11:39 AM
Hi All,
We're not dead!!!
On the morning of April 23, our hosting provider (A2Hosting) had a major issue with some of their windows-based web servers. (For reasons that are less and less relevant all the time, I chose a windows hosting plan. This will likely change.)
Once they discovered that they had a problem, they took all their windows hosting offline, which included fabric8r.com.
This morning, April 25th, they were finally able to restore service to our site. We suffered roughly 52 hours of downtime due to this issue.
I believe that they had to restore this site from a backup, which they say should have been within 24 hours of the outage. I haven't spotted any missing posts or users, but please confirm that everything is as it should be. If something is missing, please re-post, or if a user was dropped, please re-register. It's extremely unlikely that your user is not present on purpose.
In due time, we will take steps to ensure we don't suffer a total communication blackout again. Hopefully, in the unlikely event something like this happens again, we will at least be able to show you a page saying why we're down.
If you have any comments or suggestions on this situation, please post them in the General Discussion section.
Thanks!
Administrator
We're not dead!!!
On the morning of April 23, our hosting provider (A2Hosting) had a major issue with some of their windows-based web servers. (For reasons that are less and less relevant all the time, I chose a windows hosting plan. This will likely change.)
Once they discovered that they had a problem, they took all their windows hosting offline, which included fabric8r.com.
This morning, April 25th, they were finally able to restore service to our site. We suffered roughly 52 hours of downtime due to this issue.
I believe that they had to restore this site from a backup, which they say should have been within 24 hours of the outage. I haven't spotted any missing posts or users, but please confirm that everything is as it should be. If something is missing, please re-post, or if a user was dropped, please re-register. It's extremely unlikely that your user is not present on purpose.
In due time, we will take steps to ensure we don't suffer a total communication blackout again. Hopefully, in the unlikely event something like this happens again, we will at least be able to show you a page saying why we're down.
If you have any comments or suggestions on this situation, please post them in the General Discussion section.
Thanks!
Administrator