Did something odd happen recently?

[Pompompoms]

I came on to the board and a few of my posts are missing that I made in the last couple of days, not just mine, seemingly a section of posts. Did the board go down??

[shazzy]

Yes something odd did seem to happen. I couldnt get onto the board for 2 days, and when I eventually could yesterday I noticed that several posts were missing - I had an email saying I had a PM, but that had gone - and I had quite a few emails saying threads that I subscribe to had new posts, but now those seem to be missing.

Very odd, perhaps Fluffy can enlighten us?

[Fidgetthefirst]

Yeah i couldnt get on for two days, it kept saying database error

[littlepeanut]

Same here, then a message to say server had gone down...

...but its all back now <phew>!!!

[Flissy]

I was worried it would be gone forever :o

[Tish36]

I had this too, my posts had gone down loads and I was like OH NOO :o

[Fidgetthefirst]

haha, i was scared i'd never be able to come back on. haha, oh well, were all back :D

[annie81]

thats when you realise how addicted you are to hamstercentral :-D

[Pompompoms]

Lol totally, I went into panic!

[suga]

There was a problem yes - the server did crash and we did lose some data/posts. Seems to be okay now though.

[Fluffy]

The server we are on had a hard drive that was bad, which caused the second hard drive to become read only so that there would be no data lose. The problems was we has a similar problem a couple weeks back, and the tech moved our database from one drive to the other. So when the problem occurred this time, the database and the backup were on the same drive. So the only one they could recover was the database from the 26th of January. Which is why the forum was up and running with the old posts for a couple hours. Lucky I take nightly backups so we were able to recover to the previous days. So now you know the rest of the story. :)

Jason

[fluffymunchkins]

yh lol i really am addicted i was trying like every 10 minutes to get on :)
I emailed the webmaster and was explained to about the problem which calmed me down. Thankyou so much for all the hard work to try and get the forum up and running again!

[chavers]

Mystery solved!

I tried to login and it seems my profile had disappeared, so I have re-registered and I'm now off to the Introductions board to post some pics of my little boy. He seems really excited too, he's running all over the place and jumping all over my keyboard :mad:

[Iluvhamsters]

I wondered what had happened to some of my replies, I thought I was going mad.

[annie81]

thanks fluffy for spending so much time to get it up-to-date again :-)

[Francescamice]

I had to re-register also, was worried! lol

[Fluffy]

It can be frustrating when machines do not behave like they are suppose to.

Jason

[annie81]

It can be frustrating when machines do not behave like they are suppose to.

Jason

oh yeah...thats when i start shouting at my computer although i know its stupid ;-)