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#1 OFFLINE   Mystic

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Posted 24 May 2008 - 12:59 PM

Many of you will have noticed that our site has been down for about the last 14 hours. Unfortunately this was due to no fault of our own, and one of those things that happens sometimes. For some strange reason, (our hosts use the word "mysterious") all of our files were deleted from our server space, effectively wiping out everything we had created.

Luckily we did have a backup, though the bad news is that the backups are only done once a month due to the size of the website, and were last done around the 2nd of May. This means that although we do have the text of all your posts, we do not have any images that you have uploaded . If you notice a black space where an image was in one of your posts, we would greatly appreciate your co-operation & understanding to help us get the site back to the way it was before this disaster.

Where one of your images is missing in a post, could you please reupload the images in a new reply and either myself or Margie will then repair the original posts. I know it is a pain, and we really appreciate your understanding and patience with this.

Images uploaded during this month to the gallery are also gone, and it would be appreciated if you could replace them. Thank you.

Arcade players.... good and bad news for you. We have restored the main part of the site, but the arcade will take a little longer to rebuild. There are over 20,000 files that make up the arcade and our FTP client is currently working to restore them. It took 10 hours to upload the 5,000+ files that make up the rest of the site, so a little more patience please while we get the arcade back up and running.

I was working until 5am to get things sorted out and have only had about 3 hours sleep in order to try and get this site fixed as quickly as possible. Thank you to the concerned member who telephoned this morning to find out what had happened. Nice to know people do care, even if I was dead on my feet at the time LOL

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this crash has caused you. Time to rebuild and keep growing smile.gif
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#2 OFFLINE   justcoop

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Posted 24 May 2008 - 07:45 PM

I have posted my photo's for replacement. BTW so sorry about the early awakening if I hd only known I would have never called. Cheers Keith

#3 OFFLINE   tassiesim

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Posted 24 May 2008 - 08:13 PM

biggest Hugs Anna and Margie will help anyway i can , didnt know til now
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#4 OFFLINE   Mystic

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Posted 24 May 2008 - 08:24 PM

Thanks Kieth & Sim. No probs about the call Kieth, it was appreciated and things like that help keep us motivated at times like this.

The arcade is currently still being uploaded, split across both machines here and will be back in place by lunch time tomorrow. I really cannot believe that the first time we uploaded those game files we lived in Zeehan and only had a 56k dial up system. We are crazy!!!
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#5 OFFLINE   Mystic

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Posted 25 May 2008 - 11:20 AM

The arcade is now back in place. Please let us know if you encounter any problems with it.

I think we have now managed to fully restore all that we possibly can restore and all should be back to normal.

Thanks for your patience, understanding, and support.
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#6 OFFLINE   tassiesim

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Posted 25 May 2008 - 06:09 PM

Thank you very much for the hard work you have both put in, its very much appreciated from us all I am sure ,




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