Bern Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 1. What happened to Blowing Wind Forum for the past 22 hours ? Why do we seem to have a time-gap in the forum ? a. Our forum was offline for 22 hours of unplanned downtime (25/7/13 1630H - 26/7/13 1430H). Nothing happened to the mods. The downtime was caused by a hardware failure, more specifically faulty RAM card. Our servers are located in the US so we could not reach it ourselves. The hosting vendor have since found and replaced the faulty hardware. b. After getting back into the servers, we realized that there is some data loss as the hosting site restored the servers from a 2 week old backup. Because of this, all data in the last 2 weeks are not available. This explain for the time-gap in the forum. c. Our own backups, along with all other changes we have made in the past two weeks are also missing. We are currently communicating with our hosting vendor on this issue. 2. What does this means for Members / Guest ? For our readers, the following that you may have done in the last 2 weeks are all lost. a. Forum posts/replies b. Personal Messages (PM) c. Profile modification d. Accounts created We apologize for the trouble that readers will have to re-submit all their missing posts and messages made. And that newly registered members will have to create a new account again. 3. What are the Admins/Mods doing ? a. The Admins/Moderators are still monitoring the situation. We will be evaluating options for a More Stable & Reliable Hosting Site (still in the US). b. Money is always an issue. But we are also looking at the possibility of procuring a secondary site and remote backup to prevent data loss in the future. c. Our sincere apologies as we should not have being so "penny-pinching" when it comes to hosting. d. For readers facing any technical difficulties, please contact us at forum[at]blowingwind.org. e. Together, let us move forward and make Blowing Wind better and even more stable than before! Regards, Bern Admin/Mod on behalf of BW Mods schooluniform@hotmail.sg, glowingember and Phil 3 Join the official BW Telegram Group Chat: https://bit.ly/frmbw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipi Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Ouch >_<" No wonder i'm replying to old PMs...lolwell at least the site is back online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamziz Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Thanks for the effort Bptop88 1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 善待对人。麻烦用英文来表达信息。不是每个人都会看的懂中文 。| “People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It's just your opinion vs someone else's opinion. How you deliver that opinion could make the difference between opening a mind, changing an opinion or shutting the door. Sometimes folk just don't know when they've "argued" enough. Learn when to shut up." ― J'son M. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Mods, dont apologize, you are not faulty!Thanks and Congrats for all your efforts and your work.Your forum is great, and well managed!If we l'ost some data, we did not lose life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WooYounG Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 keep up the good work mods. U guys r great and had been helpful. Many thanks for the prompt replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeannyShortcake Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Yeah. Data loss is nothing much.So we'll just establish new posts and new msgs. Connections matter more than the words we use to make them anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alien Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Glad tht the forum is back online. Thanks for the effort, mods. 对自己好是一种幸福， 对别人好是一种积福。 Spend time counting your blessings, not airing your complaints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Huh huh Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Yeah.Data loss is nothing much.So we'll just establish new posts and new msgs.Connections matter more than the words we use to make them anyway.Why never data loss till seannyshortiecake is not registered yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeannyShortcake Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Why never data loss till seannyshortiecake is not registered yet I know right. Shortiecake needs to go. Always talk cock until no one rike him riaos. kahyee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bern Posted July 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Thanks guys for all the kind feedback and support. Again, we express our sincere apologies for all the inconvenience caused. SeannyShortcake, gongtang and Phil 3 Join the official BW Telegram Group Chat: https://bit.ly/frmbw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinlam90 Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 thanks mods for the effort in trying to restore this site^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clementi Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Thanks for your good effort, moderators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junxiang Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Thanks for the gracious and detailed effort to explain. Life without BW - really not use to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gast Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 1. What happened to Blowing Wind Forum for the past 22 hours ? Why do we seem to have a time-gap in the forum ?.... What a nice explanation and what a nice attitude for basically unpaid work. Thanks very much to you Bern and also to the other mods, also to the people who do work unseen and unthanked by us. Interestingly enough, I think it highlights how much BW is part of our routine, our life, gay and otherwise. Also, I hope that people come to realise that it is one of the very few tools that unite us as Gay Singaporeans/Malaysians/Asians, in Singapore and to some extent, outside of Singapore. People should think twice before abusing the priviledge of having something like this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thank you Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Yes, thanks for resolving the technical glitch in the shortest time possible Just like the haze has helped us appreciate the fresh air we have been taking for granted everyday, this technical glitch will oso help many of us to learn to be more appreciative of this forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passby Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Shit happens... hopefully can recover the 2 weeks of data...Any plan for fund raising so that we can have better infrastructure and backup facilities ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugues Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 well done bern and team, we love u! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gstc82 Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Deepest appreciation to all the mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bptop88 Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 GM thank for the hard work so far so good i guess >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest averydiscreteguy Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 cant login in. help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abang Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Absence does makes the heart goes fonder.. Incidents like this and that "blackout" tells me that BW is part of my dinner relaxant at the end of each workday. You guys are absolutely marvelous in your execution and there is NO need to apologise. Bouquets for all of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topple Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Lets contribute a token sum to help maintain the server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passby Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Lets contribute a token sum to help maintain the serverI agree... If everyone (or majority) just contribute a token sum, I'm sure it goes a long way for the infrastructure support... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F19 Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 To Bern and team @ Blowing Wind, Many thanks for the efforts. You all guys are greatly appreciated! Cheers! Luis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vikare Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 There goes my draft... Staring blankly at you from the wall ..for that is where I belong. Life of a Wallflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshTWjosh Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Thank you for hosting and giving us a platform and relaxed environment to communicate with each other in the community. It's just an unfortunate incident but I would like to express my thanks to you moderators for the above, and looking forward to the changes you mentioned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azorius Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 (edited) dtwl Edited July 11, 2015 by Azorius My amateur video links: http://www.blowingwind.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=30971&p=618776 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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