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A Note On Thursday's Downtime

Posted by Soulskill on from the slashdotting-ourselves dept.

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.)

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  1. oh okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    oh, I thought some of that shitware they sling got loose and bit them in the ass

  2. Re:Future of free hosting at Sourceforge? by fred911 · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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

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  3. Thank you. by Etherwalk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thank you to the Slashdot team. Bringing systems back up like that is emergency-mode-fun, but a lot of work, and we appreciate it.

  4. Re:While you're at it, add some modern features by dmomo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unicode, shcmunicode... they're adding REAL features, like social media icons, polls disguised as articles, hawt new barfy web-2-oh skinz, and the sexy removal of the "read more" link. Because BUZZFEED!

  5. Re:NSA backup by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't NSA world's most famous backup solution?

    Yes, but they have to kill you after they restore your data.

    Try Chinese gov't instead.

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