Topic: I am very happy with the return of contribs.org

[Normando]

The last week I have very missed contribs.org because I was intalled 2 servers and I needed to make some tweaks.

Thank you Shad for the effort recovering data and power up the site again!
The same for administrators and moderator

[jester]

Was just writing the same thing, GOOD to see things online again!

Thanx everyone for all the hard work!!

[smiit]

Another happy user here. 

I was close to running out of disk space and used AFFA to migrate my server to new hardware over the weekend.  Had to rely on Google cache pages for reference.  AFFA worked flawlessly.

Realized how much I depend on the site and sent a long overdue donation.

Cheers to all!

 

[christian]

Adding my thanks for the team's effort! I hadn't realized how addicted I was to contribs.org until it went missing.

I know a number of people were going through withdrawal and some side email conversations were happening.

I'll document in posts the outcome of stuff I was involved with.

Christian

[versa]

Excelent work and congrats to the everyone who worked hard to get everything up and running again

Thank you for all your work


PS: Donation for the upkeep paid.
Thanks again guys

[Normando]

Had to rely on Google cache pages for reference.

ME TOO!!! Google cache is superb!!

[Craig Cabrey]

I must thirded (or foutheded?) this. I didn't realize how much I browse the forums or read the wiki.

Glad to see its back up. Of course we could set up mirrors... I would love to mirror contribs.org but I can only use https (see sig) & am on a dynamic IP.

Craig

[Hummdis]

I'm just curious as to what backup software you guys use that took you a week to be back online?!

I use BRU Server for Linux and that's how I backup my SME Server.  When I had it crash about a year ago, ironically, I was back up and running in two hours.

[cactus]

I must thirded (or foutheded?) this. I didn't realize how much I browse the forums or read the wiki.

Glad to see its back up. Of course we could set up mirrors... I would love to mirror contribs.org but I can only use https (see sig) & am on a dynamic IP.

Craig

I doubt you will have the required bandwidth nor the hardware needed if you have such a connection.

[cactus]

I'm just curious as to what backup software you guys use that took you a week to be back online?!

It was not only backup that needed to be restored and imagine the time it takes to restore Terrabytes of data.

I use BRU Server for Linux and that's how I backup my SME Server.  When I had it crash about a year ago, ironically, I was back up and running in two hours.

The contribs.org domain is far more than only one SME Server it is a complete and complex server farm.

[Craig Cabrey]

I doubt you will have the required bandwidth nor the hardware needed if you have such a connection.

I realized this after I found out it was a server farm and how much traffic contribs.org gets. Still, just a thought for the future: If it ever goes down again, in the status page there should be a link to the SME Server torrent on linuxtracker so that people can still download it.

Just my $.02 

[gzartman]

I'm just curious as to what backup software you guys use that took you a week to be back online?!

I use BRU Server for Linux and that's how I backup my SME Server.  When I had it crash about a year ago, ironically, I was back up and running in two hours.

The issue had nothing to do with backup software.   Contribs.org suffered a major hardware failure that knocked out the primary RAID array and thereby the server farm that contribs.org lives on.  We are talking terrabytes of data.   The entire server farm was down, so there was nothing to restore the data too.

As stated in the announcement, steps are being taken to prevent this type of outage from happening again in the future.

Remember, Contribs.org is run 100% by volunteers on hardware they donate.  The best thing everyone in the community can do to help with this effort is make a donation. 

[beakersloco]

Let me echo the sentiment of all of contribs users .. Thanks for all that you(admins of this site) do.