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Old 07-03-08, 11:29 AM   #1
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eXceem Downtime


Unfortunately in the early hours of Thursday morning, eXceems server suffered from a hard drive/raid failure. I did hope that this could be fixed by swapping one of the hard drives and allowing the RAID to repair its self, which would have taken at most 1 hours. Unfortunately that did not work so the server had to be formatted, the operating system reloaded, then configure and secure the server. This has now all been completed and the server is now back up and running.
The most annoying part of this is that the server died 10 minutes before the daily automated backup was made, so all posts, private messages & trade comments/listings from Wednesday have been lost.
I apologise for all of this, looking at what has happened no person or company is responsible for this, it’s a case of some really bad luck. I will shortly be paying for some extra off server backup space and start 12 hour backups and maybe even 6 hour backups, to ensure all the eXceem data is safe. While some of you may wonder why it took so long to get things fixed, it has happened quite quickly as I had to go through the same process when the server was first setup and it took closer to 3 days.
Now its back to bed for me to catch up on a nights lost sleep
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Old 07-03-08, 11:34 AM   #2
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Re: eXceem Downtime


Thanks for spending the time to fix it, Jon.

I'm really glad to see eXceem back online.
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Old 07-03-08, 11:35 AM   #3
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Cheers for the effort, glad to have exceem back.


I was lost for a day and now I finally have something to do!

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Thanks for the time you put into keeping exceem up & running
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Old 07-03-08, 11:40 AM   #5
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I was bored this morning with out Exceem lol !!

Good to See it back up Jon !!
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Phew! It's good to have exceem back. I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms
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Good work, hope it wasn't too stressful!
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Thanks Jon, i was getting to the point where i was going to have to do some work, thank god its back up
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I was scared yesterday
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Re: eXceem Downtime


You mean the threads posted on Wednesday where Arctic, MickandGail and Naomi101 all posted their methods, and the one where someone posted a link to the Adriana Lima sex tape, and the one where the Nasa scientist came on and posted irrefutable proof that the moon landings were faked and aliens are amongst us were all lost!?!? What are the chances!!

Thanks for getting things up and running Jon!
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thanks for fixing it jon , i was bored yesterday and this morning i had to resort to doing my ironing and stuff !!
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Old 07-03-08, 01:02 PM   #12
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Thank you Jon for the fix...

Got very lonely with out eXceem...

Keep up the good work!

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I think I may have posted the last message before it went belly up... we'll never know.
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You mean the threads posted on Wednesday where Arctic, MickandGail and Naomi101 all posted their methods, and the one where someone posted a link to the Adriana Lima sex tape, and the one where the Nasa scientist came on and posted irrefutable proof that the moon landings were faked and aliens are amongst us were all lost!?!? What are the chances!!
I smell a conspiracy!

Thanks for working so tirelessly to get everything back up and running Jon. :o
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Re: eXceem Downtime


Thanks Jon.

Tab made some posts and sent some PM's that are missing. May be worth reminding him.
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I had this awful nightmare that exceem went offline for a day....a whole day

Glad it's back, now I can get back to normal

Was looking at when I last logged in, was the date always in american format before? i.e. month/date instead of date/month

Anyway, lat the games commence
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Old 07-03-08, 04:15 PM   #17
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Cheers Jon, I just though it was my net playing up again.

I think Tab needs to resend some mails

Thanks again,
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How sad are we.... I missed eXceem loads! Need Tab to resend his PM though, it went down straight after he sent it so I can't reply!
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what happened with tab and giveaway then as it seems like tab did quite a bit on here.
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