The Great Forum Outage of 2016

[mIKe]

So for the past few years we've gone through a company called Crissic.net for the Website's VPS.  On November 5th they posted this announcement to their website:

http://my.crissic.net/announcements.php?id=83

They did NOT send this announcement out via email.  So I never saw it.  On 12/5 I noticed the site was down, and I created a ticket with them and got this lovely response:

** This is an automated message. Please do not reply to this email/ticket. The Crissic brand is now closed down as of December 4, 2016 and will no longer be existent. We are keeping the Crissic website online for a few more days, however all infrastructure has already been decommissioned in full and all client data has been securely wiped out of our drives. **

So I moved the VPS over to a company that wont go under any time soon.  (Digital Ocean)  And thanks to .Lb's planning and foresight we had a backup from from Feb 2016 to restore from.   The last backup I had was from 2013 so we lost way less than we would have!  Thanks LB!!!

TLDR:  We outlived our hosting company and had to restore the site from backups. 

[.Lb]

Please report any bugs!

[ssixx]

Thanks Lbeezy and mIKe!! You guys really are pretty fucking awesome.

[bmanrules]

Thanks guys! Great to see everything back up and saved!

Did spot one tiny bug - the mobile site links in the menu bar are still pointing to /forum/

[Michael]

Feb 2016? You mean we did it? We made it back in time?


We have to warn the rest of the world. We have to do it right this time.

[.Lb]

Thanks guys! Great to see everything back up and saved!

Did spot one tiny bug - the mobile site links in the menu bar are still pointing to /forum/

This bug has been fixed

[bmanrules]

Awesome, thanks