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Comment By: Ryan Williams
Haha, yes. :(
Amusingly, I just wrote out a lengthy comment about ISPs and Worms and got a MySQL error, only for it to then wipe my comment by forcing a reload of the page when I press the back button. FFS?
I’ve complained about Plusnet a few times in the past. They’ve variously allowed bits of my site to be deleted due to dodgy default security settings, deleted my whole site themselves, deleted my site again, changed some important configuration settings without bothering to tell anyone and contributed to trapping huz.org.uk in domain-name pergatory for nearly three weeks. On Saturday and Sunday I couldn’t connect for about 24 hours, which thankfully halted my EVE obsession but also meant I couldn’t send a very important email. I was on the verge of running out to buy a modem and shake magazines in the hope that an AOL trial CD would fall out. Before you ask, no, the “important email” wasn’t an Evemail.
Aside from that, I still insist that Plusnet are pretty good.
This time they’ve decided to up the ante with an unstoppable act of wanton destruction. Unbeknownst to me, since I couldn’t even CONNECT, the following ominous message appeared on the Service Status page on Sunday morning:
“Our network engineers are currently investigating an issue where customers are not seeing any email displayed in their mailboxes.”
Do you know why customers were not seeing any mail displayed in their mailboxes, readers?
It’s all GONE.
Yes, this evening I’ve had a quick trawl through the updates on the Service Status page. Cluelessness gradually turned to suspicious caginess which, by this evening became “oh shit guys, hope you’re sitting down: 700GB of email gone :o :(”. The story goes that some hapless employee accidentally typed a mythical “delete everything” command while mistakenly logged in to the wrong servers. The mirrored backup system did its work and dutifully replicated the change, so the backups are toast as well.
Oh dear Plusnet, oh dear. They’re sending the data to a data recovery firm, who should – since the disks were yanked out of the system, probably in a blind panic, immediately after everything was bummed – be able to recover everything.
700GB of data to be recovered, though? More like the biggest bill you’ve ever seen.
Comment By: stan
Tuesday 11th July 2006 | 03:50
Man, I’ve been floating around fucking systems on my own for two days bored out of my mind in that fucking game. Thrik thought it was hilarious and convinced me that you had made a new account and were beefing up your character in secret before warping to me, and killing me.
He soon stopped laughing when it was time for worms. And for two days we patiently waited for you in case you decided to turn up. And you didn’t, which led to a series of threats which went something like this:
Hate-meter (beginning)
Thrik X – - – - – - – - – - – - – - Huz
Hate-meter (middle)
Thrik – - X – - – - – - – - – - – - Huz
Hate-meter (end)
Thrik – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – Huz – - X
Then we gave up and started elaborating on how you might have died. But you’re alive! So… WORMS????