Earlier this week, The Sonic Stadium’s server decided to go kaput, leaving the entire site – including the SSMB forums and affiliates such as SegaDriven – out of action for a couple of days. It was not a malicious attack of any kind – the server simply burned out and the facility we had been using to make regular backups had failed us in a separate incident. We are working to bring the site back to its previous state, but there are likely to be a few hiccups along the way.
First of all, and this is immediately apparent, is that the site currently looks insanely out of date. We have a full backup from August, and a cache dating as recently as February 2015. We’re working from the cache to get the more recent posts live, but as a result we will have lost comments on the posts we are manually rebuilding. Apologies! We have restored as many articles as possible (one or two news posts appear to have been lost forever) and will now begin restoring images for posts dating from July 2014-Feb 2015. This will take some time, so apologies in advance. We will try to bring back a bunch of comments from the most popular articles, but we cannot recover them all. Sorry!
Second of all, the SSMB forums will be out of action for around a week. This is so we can get the old server hard drive delivered to us and see if we can scrape a most recent backup of the forum’s activity. If we can’t get anything off of it, we’ll revert to an August backup. We’ll have an update on this next week.
Thanks for your patience – this whole thing hasn’t been very convenient, given that we were actually preparing to migrate to a new server very soon anyway. We’ll be back and fully operational shortly.
Thanks Dreadknux! Will we see more of you? Kind of sad life happened and we haven’t heard from you more.
Glad to hear you guys are gradually getting back up and running. You guys deserve a medal!
It was quite scary seeing a constant “Page cannot be displayed” message. Glad TSS is sort of back up, this is like the longest running site i know of ^^
Good luck resorting her to her former glory ~
I am both glad and not glad to know it wasn’t my wi-fi being mean to me again. Thank you for keeping us informed, and good luck getting the rest of the site back up!
I’m definitely glad to hear that you guys managed to get things back up and running. Hopefully we’ll get things back on track with the SSMB 😀
-Klonoa
Well look at it this way. Maybe there were some, *ahem*, “conversations” between users that are best left lost to the void. Even I would be willing to forget some petty arguments I’ve had with other users if that happened. So if those are lost for good, no big deal. I guess what is important to get back are the sound comments that actually contribute more, so hopefully those aren’t lost.
A RAID 1 hard drive setup might be beneficial.
Sorry to hear about your server going down.
Wish you guys good luck getting the site fully on air again.
Noticed the board is completely down, hoping to get that restored aswell.
Maybe a NAS-server would be the solution for TSS 🙂
It’s good that things seem to be heading back to normal. It was fun in the chat though.
A working cache from February huh? Well at least you have a base to work off from in the recovery process.
Sucks the forums doesn’t have that luxury per-se but what happened happened. Hoping for the best.
Wow, sucks to hear, but I look forward to the forums getting back up.
I suppose this is like a fresh start for some people, though, so here’s hoping for the best.
Good to hear it wasn’t any attack of any kind and hope it gets resolved with as few bumps as possible
I am so glad that you got the website back up and running especially after that hard drive failure.
Looking forward to SSMB being back up. You guys are doing an amazing job.
Glad to hear that there wasn’t any attack, but it still sucks when servers fail and you have to resort to reverting everything back to a previous date… While I haven’t had to do so on any of my forums, I’ve moved my MN9 forum from one host to another and again to another which caused a few hiccups and took a bit to fix… I can only imagine that backups for the website are huge, not only do you have to worry about the front page but there’s tons of other things to back up on the main site, then there’s the forum with thousands of posts, members, threads, etc… I wish you guys the best of luck with reverting the forums, hope everything goes smooth. 🙂
Good to see at least some part of the overall network back up and running. Keep up the good work guys. x3
If only Nicole was real, she’d fix it in a jif. lol. But seriously, good work guys.
Does this mean all the old PM’s will be lost. I hope not 🙁 🙁
Yeah! The website’s back up! Good job Dreadknux! 😉
Thanks for stopping by to explain the situation Dreadknux. Can’t wait for the SSMB to be up and running again.
You’ve got the website up, so that’s a good start.
I was wondering what happened, and now I know. Now I can worry a little less.