The past 24 hours have been the most nerve wrecking hours we've had here on the admin side of The PE Gym.
It all started with a simple idea: let's upgrade our server to increase our its speed, memory, and space nearly 10-fold. This would lead to faster page loads, and a better PE Gym experience for all of us here.
If only it all went as planned . . .
Our server provider has been a great company thus far (so great, in fact, we've stuck with them instead of hosting our own servers). They have overall been one of the best hosting services we've dealt with. Until today.
Midway through the server change process, the technicians of our hosting company accidentally deleted the entire site, including the forums, the articles, the guides, the product reviews, and everything else that encompasses the great community we got going here. The odds of this happening are rare to say the least.
They also accidentally deleted our failsafe: every single one of our hourly back-ups (we duplicate the site many times over each day in case things go wrong). Even worse, our most recent off-site back-ups were corrupted as well.
After several red bulls and man-hours of labor, some good news went our way: we we're able to recover the database and thus all the content - from forum posts to articles. We also were able to recover most of the files.
The site isn't 100 percent fixed, but we're on our way to getting everything back to normal over the next few days. For now, you should be able to view all the guides, articles, forum posts, and be able to post comments, reviews, on the forums, etc. Some of the pictures and the looks might be off, but the functionality should be there.
On the bright side, we've been rebuilding some of the site from the ground up anyways to help make the article-posting process easier (it's painful as hell, as calixto will tell you all about!) as well as get out many more community features. More on this soon.
The other bright side is we've now become as obsessed with backups and security as teenager girls are with Edward from Twilight. Over the next couple of weeks we'll be implementing more redundancy into the system than a class-A military server.
We'll also be working towards that original goal: a faster, more fluid PE Gym experience.
If you see anything out of whack over the next few days, please post about them in this thread.
Sorry again for the delay!
Aaron
It all started with a simple idea: let's upgrade our server to increase our its speed, memory, and space nearly 10-fold. This would lead to faster page loads, and a better PE Gym experience for all of us here.
If only it all went as planned . . .
Our server provider has been a great company thus far (so great, in fact, we've stuck with them instead of hosting our own servers). They have overall been one of the best hosting services we've dealt with. Until today.
Midway through the server change process, the technicians of our hosting company accidentally deleted the entire site, including the forums, the articles, the guides, the product reviews, and everything else that encompasses the great community we got going here. The odds of this happening are rare to say the least.
They also accidentally deleted our failsafe: every single one of our hourly back-ups (we duplicate the site many times over each day in case things go wrong). Even worse, our most recent off-site back-ups were corrupted as well.
After several red bulls and man-hours of labor, some good news went our way: we we're able to recover the database and thus all the content - from forum posts to articles. We also were able to recover most of the files.
The site isn't 100 percent fixed, but we're on our way to getting everything back to normal over the next few days. For now, you should be able to view all the guides, articles, forum posts, and be able to post comments, reviews, on the forums, etc. Some of the pictures and the looks might be off, but the functionality should be there.
On the bright side, we've been rebuilding some of the site from the ground up anyways to help make the article-posting process easier (it's painful as hell, as calixto will tell you all about!) as well as get out many more community features. More on this soon.
The other bright side is we've now become as obsessed with backups and security as teenager girls are with Edward from Twilight. Over the next couple of weeks we'll be implementing more redundancy into the system than a class-A military server.
We'll also be working towards that original goal: a faster, more fluid PE Gym experience.
If you see anything out of whack over the next few days, please post about them in this thread.
Sorry again for the delay!
Aaron
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