Thread: Lost Messages
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Unread 08-21-03, 12:32 AM
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Unhappy Lost Messages

Hello folks,

I'm sorry to report that some number of messages posted between 8/19 and 8/20 were lost due to my hosting company not giving a crap about their customers. (I know, you get what you pay for, and hosting is very inexpensive these days. These guys have awesome server reliability and bandwidth, but their customer service is just crap...)

Anyway, they migrated us to a new server by copying everything on the 14th, then changed the IP address today, causing all the messages from the 14th to 19th to disappear. Then all of you keep posting to the database, and I did not discover the problem until the afternoon of the 20th. So, in order to save 4 days worth of messages, I had to lose one day, by copying the database from the old server to the new one.

My apologies for those of you that posted, and will have to reenter your posts. I wish I could have forseen this in order to prevent it.

Sorry,

Kevin
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