Beamdog Down

[Zaramorte]

under maintainance or

[Frenzgyn]

[jmerry]

And they're back up.

[Zaramorte]

12 minutes ago, jmerry said:

And they're back up.

[Bartimaeus]

In this day and age, it's extraordinarily rare for an official company's online presence to be in any way seriously threatened by downtime: even for relatively smaller companies like Beamdog, it's pretty much pocket change for companies to do things right to ensure that downtime is pretty minimal. It's when you're just an individual or a small group of individuals and you just don't have the time, expertise, and/or money to needlessly burn on keeping something running that is where things can get dicey as soon as something goes wrong...

Edited September 12, 2023 by Bartimaeus

[jastey]

*thinks about SHS*

*cries*

[argent77]

I think it was just bad timing. It must have been Sunday evening in Canada when the website went down.

 

47 minutes ago, jastey said:

*thinks about SHS*

*cries*

I get the impression that in Australia it's always Sunday evening lately.

[jastey]

49 minutes ago, argent77 said:

in Australia it's always Sunday evening lately.

I feel a bit daft, what do you mean by that?

[argent77]

12 minutes ago, jastey said:

I feel a bit daft, what do you mean by that?

Sorry, I meant half-jokingly that nobody is available to take care of the problem.

[Zaramorte]

6 minutes ago, argent77 said:

I meant half-jokingly that nobody is available to take care of the problem.

[jastey]

27 minutes ago, argent77 said:

Sorry, I meant half-jokingly that nobody is available to take care of the problem.

Ah, thanks!

I agree, though.

[jastey]

..And I totally missed the first sentence in your post above, mentioning Sunday evening in Canada, @argent77. With that, the meaning of your last sentence is pretty obvious.

[Bartimaeus]

Has there been any talk of migrating projects elsewhere? No way to recover all the invaluable discussion that was lost, of course, but closing in on six months of no communication would seem to portend a rather grim outcome. Though I thought a similar situation recently with another site of mine that had been missing its lead for over six months before then going down for an entire month and a half with almost no communication basically meant the end of that site too, but I was proven wrong.

[Sam.]

51 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

Has there been any talk of migrating projects elsewhere? No way to recover all the invaluable discussion that was lost, of course, but closing in on six months of no communication would seem to portend a rather grim outcome. Though I thought a similar situation recently with another site of mine that had been missing its lead for over six months before then going down for an entire month and a half with almost no communication basically meant the end of that site too, but I was proven wrong.

Unfortunately this isn't exactly the first extended downtime, or the second, or the third, tho admittedly I haven't tried to keep track of which one has lasted the longest.  I wouldn't giving up just yet.  A decent number of mods have been added to the official SpellholdStudios github organization, and a large portion of historic public discussions and some downloads have been archived on the Wayback Machine / Internet Archive (if you know where to look).  Additionally, I have backed up some 80 GB of mod files and images/attachments on a local drive, tho many are not the latest version.  As far as full forum backups, probably only K'aeloree would have access to those, and after returning from the last downtime we lost more than a month of posts/updates.  This time could be better or worse.  Unless K'aeloree outright says he's done with SHS and he's sending the backups to the shredder, I've no interest in cobbling together a mass migration of content from scattered sources in the coming months.

[Isewein]

In general, it's a really bad idea though for backups to be stored in one location only. Storage is so cheap today - simply preserving the forums for posterity in a frozen state shouldn't be too difficult. If @Kaeloree indeed has access to an offline backup, I hope he can share it with others before another unfortunate incident happens.