MFC Downtime
 

Hello all,

We're slowly getting back up and running after the longest outage in MFC history! It's good to be back. :huglove:

You'll notice that all posts made after April 20th are missing. This is because the hard drive failed in the server MFC is hosted on - all data on that hard drive was lost, and cannot be recovered. :sad:

Luckily, there was a backup copy of the (ENORMOUS) MFC database that was only a week old, dating back to April 20th. After our hosting company repaired the physical server we're hosted on, we were able to restore the site from this backup copy.

I know it freakin' sucks to lose a whole week's worth of posts, but let's all be thankful we didn't lose over five years worth. :shocked:

It will likely be slow going for a while as our techie StandardToaster (Andrew) is re-indexing the database.

Let us know if you have any questions - and welcome back! :biggrin2:

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone working on it, especially to Andrew! :huglove:

Yes! HHUUGGEE thanks to everyone who helped get us back up and running!!!:naughty: :biggrin2: :huglove: And yes, if we had lost all 5 years worth......:mf_rosetinted::mf_rosetinted: I dont even want to talk about it.

O wow. I'm just happy we're back :wub2:

THANK YOU EVERYONE involved in working on getting it back!!:clap::bow:

OMG praise the lawd MFC is back! :hi5::dance_man::kachinga::pbjt::excite:

phew i'm so glad we didnt lose more posts, it could've been so much worse! :mikasweat:

Thanks to all helped get it back online & to those who kept us updated on twitter! :bow::clap:

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who managed to get things working again :flowers2:

:yay:

Wait, does that mean all new accounts that were made in that time were lost also? Did we lose a bunch of newbies?! :tears: (Okay, not a bunch. But there was bound to be a few)

Unfortunately yes. Same with any wall posts, PMs, signature/avatar changes - basically anything after April 20th is gone. :sad:

To the newbies: if you signed up after April 20th and your account is missing, go ahead and register again. You'll be able to use the same username you picked the first time. :thumb_yello:

Yay! Happy we're back! http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/a...on/Cheer-1.gif

Awww I lost my PM's. :tears: C' mon Newbies!! Please rejoin us!!

good news!!!
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