A Note On Thursday's Downtime

If you were browsing the site on Thursday, you may have noticed that we went static for a big chunk of the day. A few of you asked what the deal was, so here's quick follow-up. The short version is that a storage fault led to significant filesystem corruption, and we had to restore a massive amount of data from backups. There's a post at the SourceForge blog going into a bit more detail, and describing the steps our Siteops team took (and is still taking) to restore service. (Slashdot and SourceForge share a corporate overlord, as well as a fair bit of infrastructure.)

Comments

Sourceforge Badware risks ?

[nickweller]

Sourceforge is Badware risks .. http://i.imgur.com/Hhtgv0H.png

Re:Sourceforge Badware risks ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sourceforge use to be great but has been serving crapware for a couple of years. You'd have to be off your rocker to use it if you have any choice, either as an author or an end user.,

https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=30240&start=90
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/03/sourceforge_to_offer_only_optin_adware_after_gimp_grump/

Re:Future of free hosting at Sourceforge?

[fred911]

I think ever since the bundleware fiasco the revenue is generated by ads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...