What Happened?
Our long time hosting company decided late last month that they were closing down shop. Notices were sent to all customers including me, explaining the situation and giving a time table for gathering data and working through trasnfers. This was great as I was looking to update our hardware anyways and was already planning a move.
My false understanding was that we had until the end of the month to work through our migration. Well that leads us up to yesterday, Nov. 21st. Apparently this is the day the switches were flipped off, 30 days from the day the notice was sent out.
But Matt, don't you backup?
The server is setup to run nightly database and disc backup on the server as well as monthly off-site backups.
Excellent...Right?
Well here is where I break the bad news. We have lost all data from Nov. 2nd through Nov. 21st. I created a manual backup on Thursday of all files but did not include the database in this process. I attempted to grab a dump from the server but I no longer have any access to it. The offsite backup is from last month and the only manual backup I have was from Nov. 2nd, which is where we are right now.
The Future
We are now safe and sound at our new host on a new managed virtual server. Our backup process will be updated later today to manual do an offsite database dump nightly.
Summary
I screwed up and lost some user data. I feel horrible about this and will make sure to fix the mistakes that led to this. The site has grown from a small little project that I started earlier this year, to a small, awesome community and something you all rely on. I know some of you lost some data and work but right now all I can offer is my apology and a guarentee that the issues have been addressed.
If there are any other questions or comments, please drop them here or in a pm. Thanks.
Matt