Network problems :-( http://www.wikidot.com/forum/t-2795/network-problems Posts in the discussion thread "Network problems :-(" http://www.wikidot.com/forum/t-2795#post-5931 Re: Network problems :-( http://www.wikidot.com/forum/t-2795/network-problems#post-5931 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:24:14 +0000 Kwutchak 4559 Hard luck!!

I was surprised to see that you were down yesterday. It raised in my mind many of the concerns about your service that you talk about in your note. Ican't tell you how glad i am to see you've got them all covered!

Thanks very much for this service… and i hope 2007 goes well for you and wikidot!

]]> http://www.wikidot.com/forum/t-2795#post-5898 Network problems :-( http://www.wikidot.com/forum/t-2795/network-problems#post-5898 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:11:48 +0000 michal frackowiak 1 Yesterday and today Wikidot has been unreachable for a few hours all together. It seems that our network provider had some security issues (DOS attacks) and had to disconnect a few hundreds machines. This was absolutely beyond my control and responsibility but I hope this will not happen again. In 2006, during the 5 months of operation, there was less than one hour downtime due to maintenance.

I would like to state at this point, that the data stored on the server (your data) is as safe as I can make it — the server used redundant disks for storage and the backup is done every day and sent to a different backup server. You can also make backups of individual sites — the option is available in your Site Manager panel.

Somehow the beginning of 2007 was/is unlucky for many services and blogs: Mashable, Center Networks, Wykop.pl ("Polish Digg"), TechCrunch and perhaps many, many others ;-) Is it a "New Year Downtime" effect?

Anyway, availability and reliability are VERY important factors when you host other peoples' pages so I hope Wikidot will be moving to a new datacenter and more capable/reliable servers soon ;-)

michal

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