Mostly for Jay

[rbandrews]

Yellownote was down all last night and today. The server I'm hosted on at Dreamhost blew up, and all the files were lost, possibly forever.

Don't panic.

I had an up-to-date working copy on this laptop, which is now installed on there. The database itself is hosted on a different Dreamhost machine, so all the data is fine.

Next feature to be added, probably this week/end: export your notes to YAML!

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[vond.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is some high-end hosting right there. I provide better service than that (well except for, you know, getting ruby to actually work right) for free.

I actually have a new backup scheme (RAID mirroring over iSCSI) in place where if the building burns down I will have the bits up to date until the very last minute when the network drops, and I can just blow the bits onto a new system and pick back up.

[rbandrews]

Well, notice that I host my email with you still; I care that that's up.

This is actually the first problem I've had with them in several months of service. I anticipate getting the files back, actually, within a day or two.

And DH has a few features that vond.net doesn't and likely never will. I can set up SVN repositories and wikis and subdomains with a really nice web control panel, and not have to bug you about it.

It really boils down to usability versus price/reliability, and this way I have both.

Edit: Here's the thread on the issue. The files are there, their RAID just blew up. No biggie. I'd have actually only been down a couple hours if I had known it was down, and it only took me like ten minutes to put a temp fix up once I realized it.

Man, can you imagine the hell this would be for someone who didn't do this for a living? They'd have no goddamn clue where to even begin. I think that right there explains most of the irate people in that thread.