So... Is Enworld doing okay?

[Steve Jung]

You know, I hate to ask this, but what's going to happen to those of us who became community supporters between December and now? I had signed up about two months ago and now I've come back and (understandably) I'm back as a registered user and not as a supporter.

Yes, and as a bonus, the clock will be reset to whenever they re-enable it. http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2813334&postcount=3

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Latest word (it's not the best news) http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php...32&postcount=13

 

[Xath]

I think hourly would be good.

But seriously, at least monthly. Would prefer weekly, but honestly, I have no idea how long or what kind of work it takes to backup everything. Although considering the size of this site, it can't be TOO easy.

Do you have any idea how much lag that would create? I'd hazard a guess that backing up this site would take a good 16+ hours of good solid lag-time.

 

[ceratitis]

hello all
glad to see you all again, glad to be here
while i lost many posts i really feel bad for the story hours, i mean 5 months worth wow. so much work goes into those and they are so good both to read and enjoy and learn about the game and stuff. man i hope thats all backed up somewhere *sigh*
Z

 

[Piratecat]

Good to hear that everyone made it out relatively intact. How is the staff holding out?

Tired and appreciative it wasn't worse. INCREDIBLY appreciative of Pooka, who stepped in to help Twin Rose when it was clear this was a multi-person job. Frustrated it happened in the first place. And introspective - we're reviewing what we need to do to make sure this never happens again. And good, thanks.

It's good to have our home back, even if it's a little retro.

 

[drothgery]

Do you have any idea how much lag that would create? I'd hazard a guess that backing up this site would take a good 16+ hours of good solid lag-time.

I'm sure there's ways of doing things faster than that; daily database backups of far larger sites than ENWorld (with a single db server) are pretty common. It might take some hardware that ENWorld doesn't presently have to do a fast backup, but I'm pretty sure it can be done.

 

[Nightfall]

Hm maybe I need to shoot it again to see if it's healing properly...

 

[Xath]

I'm sure there's ways of doing things faster than that; daily database backups of far larger sites than ENWorld (with a single db server) are pretty common. It might take some hardware that ENWorld doesn't presently have to do a fast backup, but I'm pretty sure it can be done.

Yeah, but how much do they cost?

 

[Nightfall]

Costs more than me shooting it that's for sure. *likes to believe he has the god-like power of killing things...*

 

[barsoomcore]

*likes to believe he has the god-like power of killing things...*

*likes to allow Nightfall the illusion of power... *