As long suffering members of the site will know, over the years ARRSE has enjoyed quite a lot of down time often being unreachable for periods of several hours or more. I have to say though that we've always managed to avoid the sort of calamity that lots of web sites hosted by 123-reg.com are currently experiencing:
123-reg Clean Up Script Deletes Client Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
This is an extract from that email
I can't even begin to imagine what those site admins are currently going through as undoubtedly some of them will have relied on the sites for their livelihood. Just better hope that they had a decent back up strategy....
123-reg Clean Up Script Deletes Client Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
This is an extract from that email
As part of a clean-up process on the 123-reg VPS platform, a script was run at 7am on 16.04.16. This script is run to show us the number of machines active against the master database. An error on the script showed ‘zero-records’ response from the database for some live VPS. For those customers, this created a ‘failure’ scenario – showing no VM’s and effectively deleting what was on the host. As a result of our team’s investigations, we can conclude that the issues faced having resulted in some data loss for some customers.
Translation ...... we have deleted the entire website and databases belong to some of our customers!!
I can't even begin to imagine what those site admins are currently going through as undoubtedly some of them will have relied on the sites for their livelihood. Just better hope that they had a decent back up strategy....