When Hosting Goes Wrong!

[Bad CO]

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

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.
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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....

 

[RABC]

Good job you know what you are doing

 

[vampireuk]

Good job you know what you are doing

I wouldn't go that far!

 

[Bad CO]

It gets better in their terms & conditions:

9.1 THE TOTAL SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AVAILABLE TO YOU AS THE RESULT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY ACTION OR FAILURE TO ACT WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR OTHERWISE SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FEES PAID BY YOU TO 123-REG IN THE TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING ANY ALLEGATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ACTIONS.

9.2 In no event shall 123-reg be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, or any indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, incidental or consequential damages as the result of any such action or inaction without regard to the likelihood of any such damages.

9.3 123-reg is not responsible for any delay, lack of connection, slow connection, loss of data, loss of usability, or any other similar issues, due, but not limited to, any of the following:

• 9.3.1 the active or passive negligence of 123-reg, You or any third party;
• 9.3.2 downtime due to scheduled maintenance;
• 9.3.3 an upgrade, downgrade or other alteration to Your Services or the Virtual Server;
• 9.3.4 hardware failure, (including issues caused by other users on hardware);
• 9.3.5 Incompatibility; or
• 9.3.6 Your error.

9.4 123-reg may limit or deny access to Your Services and its systems if, in 123-reg's judgment and sole discretion, such action is required to prevent damage to the network (including, but not limited to, software and stored data) or to ensure the integrity or security of the network​

 

[vampireuk]

That sounds like legalise for, ner ner na ner ner.

 

[Sixty]

Stuff

Translation: Suck it up. It could be worse

 

[Notachance]

Translation: If you have critical data you should not just have one copy at one location or company and certainly not use 123-reg .

 

[Speedy]

They hadn't hired this guy had they? - Man accidentally deletes his entire company with one line of bad code

 

[medwaymud]

Arrse will survive , like the cockroaches we are.

Don't worry @GoodCO , @BadCO

 

[Bad CO]

They hadn't hired this guy had they? - Man accidentally deletes his entire company with one line of bad code

That story was subsequently found to be someone doing some marketing although GCO did actually do something remarkably similar a while ago - Bugger, deleted the site.... | Army Rumour Service. Fortunately he didn't touch the database which would be a problem

 

[Auld-Yin]

It gets better in their terms & conditions:

9.1 THE TOTAL SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AVAILABLE TO YOU AS THE RESULT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY ACTION OR FAILURE TO ACT WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR OTHERWISE SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FEES PAID BY YOU TO 123-REG IN THE TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING ANY ALLEGATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ACTIONS.

9.2 In no event shall 123-reg be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, or any indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, incidental or consequential damages as the result of any such action or inaction without regard to the likelihood of any such damages.

9.3 123-reg is not responsible for any delay, lack of connection, slow connection, loss of data, loss of usability, or any other similar issues, due, but not limited to, any of the following:

• 9.3.1 the active or passive negligence of 123-reg, You or any third party;
• 9.3.2 downtime due to scheduled maintenance;
• 9.3.3 an upgrade, downgrade or other alteration to Your Services or the Virtual Server;
• 9.3.4 hardware failure, (including issues caused by other users on hardware);
• 9.3.5 Incompatibility; or
• 9.3.6 Your error.

9.4 123-reg may limit or deny access to Your Services and its systems if, in 123-reg's judgment and sole discretion, such action is required to prevent damage to the network (including, but not limited to, software and stored data) or to ensure the integrity or security of the network​

I take it that you are/have found a new Hosting site? If you used 123 etc. that is!

 

[rgjbloke]

We signed up with a firm called krystal for our commercial website. We've only just started so it's early days but has anybody heard of them? I'd like to hope they won't let us down........ Fingers crossed!

 

[halo_jones]

It gets better in their terms & conditions:

9.1 THE TOTAL SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AVAILABLE TO YOU AS THE RESULT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY ACTION OR FAILURE TO ACT WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR OTHERWISE SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FEES PAID BY YOU TO 123-REG IN THE TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING ANY ALLEGATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ACTIONS.

9.2 In no event shall 123-reg be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, or any indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, incidental or consequential damages as the result of any such action or inaction without regard to the likelihood of any such damages.

9.3 123-reg is not responsible for any delay, lack of connection, slow connection, loss of data, loss of usability, or any other similar issues, due, but not limited to, any of the following:

• 9.3.1 the active or passive negligence of 123-reg, You or any third party;
• 9.3.2 downtime due to scheduled maintenance;
• 9.3.3 an upgrade, downgrade or other alteration to Your Services or the Virtual Server;
• 9.3.4 hardware failure, (including issues caused by other users on hardware);
• 9.3.5 Incompatibility; or
• 9.3.6 Your error.

9.4 123-reg may limit or deny access to Your Services and its systems if, in 123-reg's judgment and sole discretion, such action is required to prevent damage to the network (including, but not limited to, software and stored data) or to ensure the integrity or security of the network​

Should be read as, Vampireuk so eloquently puts...

ner ner na ner ner

There will be no doubt lots of SME's that in all honesty, dont get the internet and data, despite building a percentage of the business model on it. but as you say hopefully they ahve at least one person nagging them to backup backup backup.

 

[Guns]

Backups. Backups for the here and now, backups that do not touch any live system and backups off site.

Crypto-ransomware or fuckups. There is a reason for backups.

 

[Guns]

The easy way to back up your files for free

The Beginner's Guide to PC Backup

The Best Online Backup Services for 2016

All worth a read about backing up for personal use.

 

[meridian]

It is a very simply concept, have backups for your backups, amazing how many organisations fail to do it

 

[jarrod248]

Nothing worse than bad canapés.

 

[halo_jones]

Backups. Backups for the here and now, backups that do not touch any live system and backups off site.

Crypto-ransomware or fuckups. There is a reason for backups.

Because of the service related OCD many of us had hammered into us, we think its completely normal to have backups, of the backup or that triple redundancy is a not a sign of being a professional paranoid loony tune...

 

[whiffler]

That might explain the sudden unavailability of another of my 'daily' sites.

I urge you all to pray to the Arrse Gods for the safe return of www.glory-glory.co.uk

 

[alfred_the_great]

Because of the service related OCD many of us had hammered into us, we think its completely normal to have backups, of the backup or that triple redundancy is a not a sign of being a professional paranoid loony tune...

But you also have to check the integrity of your backups as well.