| Site Down 12-13 March
A Really Big Sorry!
Once again our host's server had a file system corruption yesterday and to fix it they had to run a file system check (fsck), which meant that everything had to switched off since yesterday afternoon.
It actually all started on Saturday when they found a few problems and started to run the fsck, which meant we were down for a couple of hours. It turns out that that fsck suddenly jumped from 70% to 100% complete and they thought that was OK so they switched us back on. Then yesterday they realised that the jump was probably the fsck skipping some of it's job, and in fact we'd still been running on a corrupt file system since Saturday. Yesterday afternoon they restarted the fsck, which meant we had to suddenly go offline again.
We've got daily backups of the site, but with no idea how far back the corruption goes, we'd have to at least go back as far as Friday's backup, which means we'd lose a lot of work. So the best bet was to just ride out the storm and wait to get back online.
It's been a real disaster for us and we really apologise for the inconvenience, we're now looking for a different host.
Stu |