AS
Asa
Admin
And a Happy New Year to you too!
Well this forum has been though it all - moving hosts three times, running out of webspace, bandwidth and CPU usage but we've now burnt the whole server out too!
It's such a pain that all data was lost. The actual files are backed up daily and were replaced straight away. But the mySQL database holding the member details, posts, topics - everything could not be restored.
Unfortunately, this means everyone is required to sign up again. The process is very simple and all you need to do is validate the membership when you get your email confirmation.
As a rule of thumb, I don't think I'll be restoring people's post count and registration date unless there's sufficient interest in doing so.
Once again my apologies. Oh for the days of flat-file Ikonboard. From now on, you can be assured that I'll be keeping regular backups of posts and definitely of members!!
Cheers, Asa
Well this forum has been though it all - moving hosts three times, running out of webspace, bandwidth and CPU usage but we've now burnt the whole server out too!
It's such a pain that all data was lost. The actual files are backed up daily and were replaced straight away. But the mySQL database holding the member details, posts, topics - everything could not be restored.
Unfortunately, this means everyone is required to sign up again. The process is very simple and all you need to do is validate the membership when you get your email confirmation.
As a rule of thumb, I don't think I'll be restoring people's post count and registration date unless there's sufficient interest in doing so.
Once again my apologies. Oh for the days of flat-file Ikonboard. From now on, you can be assured that I'll be keeping regular backups of posts and definitely of members!!
Cheers, Asa