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Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good

Posted by kdawson on from the lost-in-the-clouds dept.

miller60 writes "The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all its user data was irretrievably lost in the Jan. 30 database crash that knocked the service offline. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff recently discussed the crash and the lessons to be learned from Ma.gnolia's experience. A lesson for users: don't assume online services have lots of staff and servers, and always keep backup copies of your data. Ma.gnolia was a one-man operation running on two Mac OS X servers and four Mac minis."

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  1. Re:Mac reliability by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, but that's exactly the surprising part. Why would you pay Apple $3000 for a xserve running Apache and MySQL, with a crappy service contract (no next-day service, no on-site service-- I've looked into it), when you could buy an equivalent Dell server for $2100, running the exact same Apache and MySQL, and get a next-day and on-site service contract?

    Anyone who buys an xserve is an idiot.

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  2. Re:Mac reliability by blhack · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even IBM does better, and they suck.

    One morning I came in and was looking at the logs. SMART was reporting that one of the disks in one of the servers was going to go bad soon. Not 15 minutes after i even noticed this in the logs, an IBM tech was there with a fresh one ready to replace it.

    How? The server called home, told IBM about the error, and they disbatched a tech immediately.

    If that "sucks", your service must come with free hookers or something.

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