Server Recovery

The last time I felt like this was when I collapsed when working at Amazon - was in the hospital for a few days living off a drip.

Even though this was one of the worst ordeals I have been through, I live by my belief that ordeals dished up by fate are actually gifts. Getting through an ordeal leaves us wiser and stronger which makes it easier to deal with future obstacles - I'll be better prepared next time ^^;

Apart from learning a ton of unix and other tech stuff through this ordeal, I guess I temporarily hit my mid 2008 goal of getting into the worlds top 5000 websites. This is a snapshot of my alexa rank which shows what the traffic was like when I got dugg. It will drop back down to the 15,000 level though.

So whats been lost? [*] All comment data and puchi blurbs since last wednesday. [*] About 30 otaku news items + comments. [*] Thumbnails for the RSS Fusion aggregator. [*] Some thumbnails for videos which have been removed from YouTube. [*] Data for anybody who registered after last Wednesday - I know its a bother to register again and I'm truly sorry. Will try to tempt you with the next batch of pictures which need the Mirai Mark removed ^^; [*] Some avatars - if you login and see your avatar broken, just go to edit your profile again to restore it.

I only had a snapshot of the MYSQL database from last Wednesday but managed to salvage the other posts from Googles cache! The only post I totally lost was the "eroge to anime" post - will post that again.

If you spot anything thats broke on the site, do let me know and I will get on to it. There are a few bugs with the Ranking Charts, RSS Fusion and maybe the piecharts too but will work on em as soon as I can.

Apologies to Featured Feed members - the site being down means that your site may have broke due to the missing feed.

As you know, I moved this site to a new server very recently and postponed setting up a RAID (a disk mirroring thingy) until after all the otaku events which recently finished - looks like I was too late ^^;

I would like to thank you all for your patience and also thanks for visiting and leaving comments on the server status blog - your comments really helped pick me up during the past 48 hours (sheds tear.)

Want to say a big thanks to the guys at Webtenet who helped me fix that darn darn ImageMagick problem that was preventing the site from going live. If you need to outsource some dev work then they are the ones you need.