HawkDawg.com

[hawkdawg]

As some of you may have figured out, my site has been down since Friday night.
This is due to a major hardware upgrade on the servers, which didn't work out as well as hoped. :shock:
It looks like it might be tomorrow or the next day (Wednesday) before my site is back up. It seems they lost all the data for my site. :o They're looking for it though. :roll:
Not to worry. If worse comes to worse I did a back up of my site and the forum Friday night before all this started.
As a temporary means of contacting me I've set up a temp. email address.

rti@hawks-web.com

This will only be good until my site is back up and running fully. Then this email address will be deleted so no need to save it. ;)

[AZ Rail Rat]

So Hawk, you got the same service as Rich Garber? I noticed on 3DTrains his site is down also.

Whoever said, "You can't have too many backups!" sure knew what he was talking about . . . Hey . . . I SAID THAT!!!:rolleyes:

[hawkdawg]

Yep! We're with the same service.
Thing is, apparently this server hardware upgrade has affected over 800 hosting companies. That means thousands of web sites were affected by this.
Things are starting to settle down now so I'll probably have my site back up tomorrow evening-I hope. :???:

[hawkdawg]

My site is back up and running but the download rate is really slow and will be for the next couple of days, but at least it's back up. :-D

[BigMac]

Gah, hate it when that happens :(

Good to know you're back up and running again. One of the "joys" of owning my own servers is that I know exactly when updates are going to happen and can plan around them ;)

[hawkdawg]

These folks that are running the servers have their head up their butts.
They throttled back bandwidth to allow for their sloppy job of setting up the new hardware and it's still throttled back.
I'm in the process of looking for a new hosting service, possibly temporary-just until the get their act together or my hosting company finds another server to lease space from, or sets up their own servers.
Got any space on your servers for a 200GB a month habit? :)

[BigMac]

These folks that are running the servers have their head up their butts.
They throttled back bandwidth to allow for their sloppy job of setting up the new hardware and it's still throttled back.
I'm in the process of looking for a new hosting service, possibly temporary-just until the get their act together or my hosting company finds another server to lease space from, or sets up their own servers.
Got any space on your servers for a 200GB a month habit? :)
200Gb?? How the heck are you managing to used 200Gb per month of transfer??

[hawkdawg]

Almost 500 files available for download. All the larger files are for MSTS. Some as large as 200 MB.
I probably have about 300 files alone for RRT 2 & 3.
This month has been pretty slack due to the 5 days the server was down plus the 1 week the bandwidth was throttled back to near dial-up speed.
I've only used about 80 GB so far. :rolleyes:

[BigMac]

Almost 500 files available for download. All the larger files are for MSTS. Some as large as 200 MB.
I probably have about 300 files alone for RRT 2 & 3.
This month has been pretty slack due to the 5 days the server was down plus the 1 week the bandwidth was throttled back to near dial-up speed.
I've only used about 80 GB so far. :rolleyes:200Mb... jeez, time to winzip the files ;) ;) I remember when 1Mb was considered a big file to download! :( :(

[hawkdawg]

200Mb... jeez, time to winzip the files ;) ;) I remember when 1Mb was considered a big file to download! :( :(

That is zipped. ;-) Unzipped is probably an average of 50 to 75% larger. A lot of the files used in MSTS can be compressed with WinZip quite a bit.