Members,
I received an e-mail this evening from the company that hosts our web server. They informed me that during their attempt to revive our server, they mistakenly formated our secondary hard drive that contained all of our uploaded images. There was no conceivable reason why they would have done that, but they did. All of the images were lost.
However, this disaster lies heavily on me as well, as I have neglected to add the images directory to my backup routine and I have absolutley no backup whatsoever of the lost images. They are gone forever.
To make amends, the hosting company has made us the following offer:
One month free hosting and six months free automated tape backup. After the six months, the tape backup service will cost us $80 per month.
Lets open the discussion on this and see how everyone feels about the offer. The automated tape backup would be nice in that it would not rely on backing up to my computer at home and would be more reliable, but bear in mind that after six months I would have to pass the hat again for more money to cover this previously unbudgeted expense.
I received an e-mail this evening from the company that hosts our web server. They informed me that during their attempt to revive our server, they mistakenly formated our secondary hard drive that contained all of our uploaded images. There was no conceivable reason why they would have done that, but they did. All of the images were lost.
However, this disaster lies heavily on me as well, as I have neglected to add the images directory to my backup routine and I have absolutley no backup whatsoever of the lost images. They are gone forever.
To make amends, the hosting company has made us the following offer:
One month free hosting and six months free automated tape backup. After the six months, the tape backup service will cost us $80 per month.
Lets open the discussion on this and see how everyone feels about the offer. The automated tape backup would be nice in that it would not rely on backing up to my computer at home and would be more reliable, but bear in mind that after six months I would have to pass the hat again for more money to cover this previously unbudgeted expense.
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