First of all I want to apologize to everyone affected by the recent server outage that caused the TR site to be down for so long.
Second, I want to thank everyone for bearing with me, and being patient while I get things back up and running.
Briefly here is what happened.
Last Thursday there was a hard drive issue that caused us to have to take the server down for a while.
Last Friday, that issue returned. The hard drive totally failed and when replaced, we still had nothing. We then realized that the entire partition had been lost.. Basically all the data on the server was gone.
By Saturday night we had started the long process of data restores.
By Sunday night I cut the cord on that, the restore process was just taking way to long, so we built up a new server and I then had to recreate all the accounts on this server (Talkingreef is only 1 of about 20 sites I host here, other sites you may know are
Reefreaders, ProjectDIBS, and The DIBS Foundation)
Late Monday night we finally got the systems back online starting with Talkingreef and Project DIBS. I then spend the next 2 days working on other sites.
As of now Talkingreef is back up and running. There are a few existing issues that I have to address and these will require periodic site outages but should not be more that 30-60 minutes at a time. These are going to be needed as i work to correct database issues left over from the way we had to restore the database.
NOW, with that said, the restore we did a few days ago left us with an extremely damaged database. I have spent the last few days (and nights) working to get this database back in working order, but because of continuous issues I have been forced to restore from an older backup. This means all posts after 11/19 until now have been lost. This will affect post counts, profile changes, image updates, and thread details as the newest posts will be gone. I must apologize for this, but these posts are gone and i have no way to retrieve them.
Just to wrap up here, again i want to thank everyone. Hopefully the future outages will be few and far between as i work to clean up these last few issues.
