There are Bad and Good news for Seventeen-Or-Bust... Which do you want to hear first?

Mark Rose · 2016-05-11, 16:00

So the server has been down for a while now, and it looks like all is lost:

http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthr...83-Server-down

ixfd64 · 2016-05-11, 16:19

That's bad. And you'd think data centers would be smart to back up their servers, especially in 2016.

I wonder if any other websites on the server were affected. If so, the hosting company could be looking at a rather big lawsuit.

Edit: Here's another thread on the same subject: http://primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=6780

Prime95 · 2016-05-11, 17:53

I cannot post at primegrid foruum. The wayback machine may have some of the lost data.

ATH · 2016-05-11, 18:05

Uhh that is scary!

Maybe we should do a backup of primenet every 6 months and post a torrent file here for those of us who wants to keep a copy?

or at least upload it to some cloud storage or just another physical site away from the primenet server.

chalsall · 2016-05-11, 18:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by ixfd64

That's bad. And you'd think data centers would be smart to back up their servers, especially in 2016.

From what I read they did do backups, but kept the backups at the same site which was taken out by a fire.

What part of "off-site backups" is a Good Thing^(TM) isn't clear? Heck, "cloud" storage is amazingly cheap now-a-days.

ixfd64 · 2016-05-11, 18:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by chalsall

From what I read they did do backups, but kept the backups at the same site which was taken out by a fire.

Where did you get that information?

WHOIS information suggests the server (9.9.160.186) was hosted in Durham, NC. However, I could find no references about a fire there.

chalsall · 2016-05-11, 18:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by ixfd64

Where did you get that information?

WHOIS information suggests the server (9.9.160.186) was hosted in Durham, NC. However, I could find no references about a fire there.

Inference from "We just heard from Louie and the news is not good. It looks like the old server, and everything on it, is toast. From what I understand the software that runs the server was lost too. There were backups, but unfortunately the entire datacenter was lost, taking the backups with it.", post number 10 from the thread Mark linked to.

Batalov · 2016-05-11, 18:32

When I first received an email spam message from SoB and it turned out that it was not hacked (it was from the owner, who apparently thought that it was a good idea?!), I knew that something was terribly off there.

Mark Rose · 2016-05-11, 19:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime95

I cannot post at primegrid foruum. The wayback machine may have some of the lost data.

It has does have the lower bounds for the ranges checked: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304...eStatsEx.mhtml

ixfd64 · 2016-05-12, 00:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by chalsall

Inference from "We just heard from Louie and the news is not good. It looks like the old server, and everything on it, is toast. From what I understand the software that runs the server was lost too. There were backups, but unfortunately the entire datacenter was lost, taking the backups with it.", post number 10 from the thread Mark linked to.

The fact that the entire data center was lost does suggest a fire occurred. There aren't many other things that can wipe out an entire data center except maybe a hacker or logic bomb. However, the loss of many websites would no doubt be a big deal, and I don't see any news reports of such. I guess we'll know more in a few days.

rogue · 2016-05-12, 01:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by ixfd64

The fact that the entire data center was lost does suggest a fire occurred. There aren't many other things that can wipe out an entire data center except maybe a hacker or logic bomb. However, the loss of many websites would no doubt be a big deal, and I don't see any news reports of such. I guess we'll know more in a few days.

But data centers have fire protection, so that seems odd, unless the fire started outside of the data center and the fire suppression system stopped working.

2016-05-11, 16:00	#1
Mark Rose "/X\(‘-‘)/X\" Jan 2013 29×101 Posts	There are Bad and Good news for Seventeen-Or-Bust... Which do you want to hear first? So the server has been down for a while now, and it looks like all is lost: http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthr...83-Server-down

2016-05-11, 16:19	#2
ixfd64 Bemusing Prompter "Danny" Dec 2002 California 2364₁₀ Posts	That's bad. And you'd think data centers would be smart to back up their servers, especially in 2016. I wonder if any other websites on the server were affected. If so, the hosting company could be looking at a rather big lawsuit. Edit: Here's another thread on the same subject: http://primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=6780 Last fiddled with by ixfd64 on 2016-05-11 at 16:40

2016-05-11, 18:05	#4
ATH Einyen Dec 2003 Denmark 2²×757 Posts	Uhh that is scary! Maybe we should do a backup of primenet every 6 months and post a torrent file here for those of us who wants to keep a copy? or at least upload it to some cloud storage or just another physical site away from the primenet server. Last fiddled with by ATH on 2016-05-11 at 18:07

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