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GusZor · Post by **GusZor** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:57 pm

Okay, I can get FTP access and see the public_html directory but it and all the sub-directories are empty. I can't login to the Member page. So is my site up but deleted or should I just wait for things to fix themselves?

So does anyone know?

Am I boned?

GusZor · Post by **GusZor** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 2:57 pm

I imagine no one cares.

McBean · Post by **McBean** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 4:08 pm

well, it's a roller coaster right now. I guess we'll just have to wait it out.

ZOMBIE USER 8978 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8978** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 4:40 pm

Oh man, is it ever.

Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 5:02 pm

You're not 'boned', not unless you failed to be a back up of your site. (Even if you haven't you may be able to pull it off the WayBack Machine.)

What's happend is this:

Nate wrote:Well, this has been a rough ride. The server, Schlock, is now officially dead. Unfortunately, I was not able to complete the entire transfer before it went down.

Of the 7300 accounts on Keenspace, 6007 were successfully transferred.
This leaves a bunch of accounts that were not transferred. At this point, the best solution for these accounts is for us to create empty directory structures and ask you, the artists, to upload your sites again.

So, if you can not ftp in, it's because your account is not set up yet. We'll be setting them up shortly and you'll be able to load your site back up.

Those of you who have hosted domains - we are working to reinstate your domain redirection. These records were lost with the death of Schlock and we have to rebuild them from an old backup. It will probably take the remainder of the day.

It's really unfortunate because I was one minute from sending the lost information to the new server when the entire internet went down last night due to a Microsoft virus.
The virus has had a massive effect and crippled the entire internet for most of the night - check out http://average.matrix.net for some interesting graphs.

Unfortunately, by the time I could get back into the server, the hard disk had failed completely.

We're at least operational right now, but it will take a few days for everything to smooth out. Please bear with us.

Once they re-instate the members login (I imagine they'll stagger it to prevent everyone from trying to go at once), you'll be able to restore your site.

The best thing to do now is to keep working on your comics to create a cache for whenever you're away.