Grrrr

[Deleted member 1609]

@Scarlharp: https://meowsepad.org/. Back up and running now! 😀

Thanks for the support, everyone. I had a backup from a little over a week before this happened, so that is restored now. I wish I would have taken another backup just a few days before, though. D:

 

[Scarlharp]

Thanks, looks cute :3

available” as it will have been indexed by search engines as well as on-line archive sites.

By clicking on the “I agree to these terms” button below your acceptance of these terms will be recorded.

But what's with the above glitched text in GDPR compliance thing?

 

[Azareal]

available” as it will have been indexed by search engines as well as on-line archive sites.

By clicking on the “I agree to these terms” button below your acceptance of these terms will be recorded.

Maybe some sort of Unicode text? I'm not sure, but might be an encoding issue.

 

[Cosmic]

AWS S3, for example, can survive the physical destruction of an entire data center, as customer data is replicated to multiple separate facilities.

AWS is not an ordinary host and their prices reflect it.

There are basically four levels of support. Commodity hosts, premium hosts, business hosts, and enterprise hosts. The huge cloud services are a little different due to the trade-offs they make, but not all hosts are built the same and I don't know what sort of host this was.

Any company, even a small one, that wants to be competitive has to compare themselves to the largest and most successful competitors. AWS has tier-priced customer support plans. They target users at every level.

It can be considered bad business from a consumer standpoint, but it's still not required for them to do so in most cases.

No regulator requires them to have decent uptime, but that’s still a pillar of any host’s business. This isn’t about requirements, but rather customer satisfaction.

 

[Azareal]

Any company, even a small one, that wants to be competitive has to compare themselves to the largest and most successful competitors.

Some of the biggest hosts have barebones "we give you support if we feel like it" and "no backups" plans. And then, you pay extra for a higher tier or an extra to get things. It's fairly normal.

In this specific case, the host messed up big time, probably some incompetent support technician, sure it could be a mistake, but they really should approach procedures like this with caution rather than being lackadaisical about it.

It's probably one of the reasons that people are willing to throw like $100/month at Jeff Atwood to host their forums.

 

[Deleted member 1609]

Thanks, looks cute :3

available” as it will have been indexed by search engines as well as on-line archive sites.

By clicking on the “I agree to these terms” button below your acceptance of these terms will be recorded.

But what's with the above glitched text in GDPR compliance thing?

Thanks!

When I restored the database from an SQL dump file, it screwed up the symbols. I will work on it.