Forum was down on 9/11. Caused by GoDaddy
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:43 pm
The forum site was down on 9/11 and 9/12. It's back to normal on 9/13
GoDaddy was either being attacked or because of it's own stupidity, the whole site, I mean the complete Godaddy Interent service was down and caused millions of website down.
My support forum was not an exception as it was hosted by Godaddy.
I acted quick right after it's up on late 9/11. I did backup and planning to switch to another host company. Before the migration, I also ran an upgrade to the board. Big mistake for a rush job. I accidentally or somehow mixed up the DB connection and caused my main site down, as well as the backup site. I though that it's Godaddy again so I switched to Lunarges.com
I found that the problem insisted and I could able recover data back to March, 2012 only. Finally, by doing some research I found that phpBB native restore application has flaw. It couldn't restore DB properly if it's over 2MB in size. I checked my DB and it's about 3MB. Bingo! That's the problem it caused "Fatal error. Time out...." every time when I tried to restore the backup database. After download a free tool name "BigDump.php" offered by a folk in UK, I could restore the db successfully and the site up again. $20 was donated for his coffee
There are a few posts or accounts may got lost during the transition. I apology for the inconvenience. Please register again or post your question again if it affected you.
Regards,
Marco
GoDaddy was either being attacked or because of it's own stupidity, the whole site, I mean the complete Godaddy Interent service was down and caused millions of website down.
My support forum was not an exception as it was hosted by Godaddy.
I acted quick right after it's up on late 9/11. I did backup and planning to switch to another host company. Before the migration, I also ran an upgrade to the board. Big mistake for a rush job. I accidentally or somehow mixed up the DB connection and caused my main site down, as well as the backup site. I though that it's Godaddy again so I switched to Lunarges.com
I found that the problem insisted and I could able recover data back to March, 2012 only. Finally, by doing some research I found that phpBB native restore application has flaw. It couldn't restore DB properly if it's over 2MB in size. I checked my DB and it's about 3MB. Bingo! That's the problem it caused "Fatal error. Time out...." every time when I tried to restore the backup database. After download a free tool name "BigDump.php" offered by a folk in UK, I could restore the db successfully and the site up again. $20 was donated for his coffee
There are a few posts or accounts may got lost during the transition. I apology for the inconvenience. Please register again or post your question again if it affected you.
Regards,
Marco