Posted January 17, 2010 by OurLordsFriends
Dear friends.
If you have joined OurLordsFriends.com since the end of December or submitted content, then please forgive us and accept our apologies as your membership or content has been lost.
Sadly due to circumstances out of our control, our server packed up. The hard drive that stores our websites crashed and were not able to be repaired. We run a monthly back up of OurLordsFriends.com and in fact the crash happened the day before the next back up was due and this is why we have lost the last few weeks new memberships and content submitted.
I have spent the last two days and night (15-17th January 2010) working on getting OurLordsFriends.com back up and running and can say we are now back up. I have also been in a lot dialogue with the hosting company we use and to prevent any form of data loss again, we have come to an agreement that they will run a daily back up for a small fee. This is a new service that they have recently started and when they run the back up, it moves the server files (websites) over to another server. This means if the hard drive crashes again, we will not loose a lot of data. If I knew of this service before, I would I snapped their hands off. I will of course, still be running my own back ups in case anything happens to the hosting company.
I am sure you can understand that this was out of my control and just on of those things but either way, please accept my sincere apologies for the problems that had arisen.
May God bless you all and keep you at peace.
Stephen
If you have joined OurLordsFriends.com since the end of December or submitted content, then please forgive us and accept our apologies as your membership or content has been lost.
Sadly due to circumstances out of our control, our server packed up. The hard drive that stores our websites crashed and were not able to be repaired. We run a monthly back up of OurLordsFriends.com and in fact the crash happened the day before the next back up was due and this is why we have lost the last few weeks new memberships and content submitted.
I have spent the last two days and night (15-17th January 2010) working on getting OurLordsFriends.com back up and running and can say we are now back up. I have also been in a lot dialogue with the hosting company we use and to prevent any form of data loss again, we have come to an agreement that they will run a daily back up for a small fee. This is a new service that they have recently started and when they run the back up, it moves the server files (websites) over to another server. This means if the hard drive crashes again, we will not loose a lot of data. If I knew of this service before, I would I snapped their hands off. I will of course, still be running my own back ups in case anything happens to the hosting company.
I am sure you can understand that this was out of my control and just on of those things but either way, please accept my sincere apologies for the problems that had arisen.
May God bless you all and keep you at peace.
Stephen
