MyspaceGeeks UP

[MyspaceGeeks]

Heres the situation:

My /usr/ drive on my server corrupted and crashed, and my server is in a RAID 10 configuration. My server needs a OS reload, and the OS reload will whipe all hard drives including /home/ (where all my websites are stored).

Which means I had to backup all of my websites. I only care about gazzump & myspacegeeks. MyspaceGeeks is 70GB alone. I have just finished transferring myspacegeeks to another server I own to hold it there (took 18 hours to copy across at an avg. of 3.3mb p sec, while they reload the operating service, after they have done this and my server is working, I will then move myspacegeeks back over to my server.

MyspaceGeeks is currently up on a pretty crap server, but its better than it being down for another 2 days.

http://www.myspacegeeks.com - It has been down for 2 and a half days so far, such a nightmare :(

[rize]

awww i cnt access it :(

[DavidR]

How much do you think this has hurt you, because (I think it was you) were doing SEO work and making gains?

I always worry that down time will mean profiles won't work and people will remove their layouts from their profiles, and therefore thousands of backlinks that bring in traffic will be gone.

[MyspaceGeeks]

Yeah but i'll get backup, google sandboxed me the day before my server ****ed up too :(

Most of my layout images were also stored on my image uploader, and I had to delete the uploaded files to make space on my other server :$

[MyspaceGeeks]

http://prx.in - use that and goto myspacegeeks.com until your dns sets :)

[rob]

If it's a dedicated server and you have root access, you should look into automated offsite backups using rsync. We use http://bqbackup.com/. This way we never have to worry about backing up our server, as it's configured to do it automatically every 4 hours.

[MyspaceGeeks]

Even if I had offsite backups my server would be whiped in the OS reload and then id still have to install the backup, etc.

This way, the data i have got on my other server, which is online now, is EXACTLY the same as when the site went offline.

[NYCBORN]

That totally sucks. You would think with Raid10 you would be somewhat covered. What did you do to corrupt your /usr ?

[MyspaceGeeks]

Didn't do anything, have no clue why it corrupted lol:(

[George]

I would have loaded my latest backup on a shared host immediately while I got my other site back up. Nothing is worth losing your search rankings. Especially not bonehead server admins at your host not being able to get you back up quickly.

[MyspaceGeeks]

You really think a shared host can handle my website? My server struggles and I have 4gb ram, mySQL server and load balancing.

[MyspaceGeeks]

This is my other server which myspacegeeks is currently running on:

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Processor #1 speed: 3201.023 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 1024 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Processor #2 speed: 3201.023 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 1024 KB

[GreenSpeed21]

wow dude that sucks your server went down. it would be a nightmare, and i wouldn't be able to get any sleep.. and it looks like your site went down the drain
http://hiderefer.com/kfiFNAMJ.htm
(http://hiderefer.com/kfiFNAMJ.htm)

[George]

You really think a shared host can handle my website? My server struggles and I have 4gb ram, mySQL server and load balancing.Yeah that was a brain typo... I was thinking dedicated but typed shared...

[MyspaceGeeks]

It'll rise straight back up though :D

Got the whole easter holidays to work & promote my sites :)

[Callyuk]

Erm, Well good luck with that then..

[minnseoelite]

well once the search engines see your site is up again and redindex any dropped pages as long as you get your links back from myspace profiles your site should jump back into the SERPS close to where it was before