GrLevelXStuff Question

[Jeremy Jones]

A quick question about http://grlevelxstuff.com/

If this has already been discussed in a different thread, my apologizes.

Looks like the site is down. Maybe permanently. Does anyone know if they will be coming back online, or if they will be able to come back online?

 

[Steve Miller]

OUCH. I hope it comes back as that was a wonderful source of info and downloads.

 

[Wes Carter]

Crap, I just signed up on there and had yet to use the site. I had just received my confirmation email.

 

[Brett Adair]

It's the WxAlliance servers. Hard drive failure....my website was wiped out due to this. Lost all of the MySQL databases.

 

[Jeremy Jones]

Yeah, I read the notice on their front page, that really is a bummer!

 

[Joe Dorn]

Yeah, I read the notice on their front page, that really is a bummer!

I don't understand...

Are they gone forever or just until the server is back...

Never mind, I answered my own question... The database is gone so maybe, maybe not...

 

[Bob Hartig]

It's beyond a bummer. GRlevelXstuff has been a fantastic resource for Gibson Ridge users. It was, and hopefully will yet remain, a labor of dedication driven by some extremely talented people. But surely they must have had some kind of backup. The thought of all that material vanishing irretrievably is just sickening.

 

[Jim Zandonai]

It doesn't sound like it but hopefully some data is backed up.. Backing up stuff is the most over-looked thing regarding data. I have been somewhat guilty of this myself and dont back up as often as I should either..

With regard to PAL files etc everyone has some so replenishing them should not be too hard if everyone contributes back into that aspect of it..

 

[John Wetter]

I'm sure there's a backup......... Right?

 

[Joey Ketcham]

I would hope that they had their site backed up including the database, I couldn't imagine not doing so. I backup my website and database once a month, if my site completely crashed I could have it back up in 20 minutes or so easily.

 

[Bob Hartig]

You'd think that would be the case. Aaron et al strike me as savvy enough to cover their bases in the event of a system crash. But the site still isn't up, and I don't like what that fact seems to imply.

 

[Danny Neal]

This is indeed a bad thing to happen. I had just downloaded a bunch of content onto my desktop and was going to reconfigure my laptop tonight and noticed the blue screen of death when I typed in the URL. I really hope it can be brought back up. I finally was satisfied with the way things looked on my desktop. Perhaps I should just USB those files onto my laptop as well. If GRLS doesn't get back up, maybe we can all throw our files that we got from there onto a blog or something so at least we have SOMETHING to choose from....that is if the files are still valid.

 

[Bob Hartig]

I'm just wondering what Aaron plans to do at this point. If he hopes to get the site back up and running, then what, in practical terms, will it take for him to do so, and how can this community of GR users support him?