MacUpdate is down! Nooooo...
[quote]From an email from Joel, the owner:
MacUpdate's hard drive took a dive this morning and will no longer boot. This has caused unexpected down time for the MacUpdate site.
We are going to attempt to make the drive a secondary drive in the machine and copy the data over. If this doesn't work, we are in a very bad position, as the MacUpdate site and database are not backed up outside of this drive.
Keep us in your prayers if you would please.
-Joel Mueller
[email protected]<hr></blockquote>
I just talked to him on iChat and so far the data center techs aren't cooperating! They refuse (so far) to help swap the drives. There is one guy there who is trying to help him by calling management at home cause they don't work weekends.
If <a href="http://rackshack.net/english/index.asp"; target="_blank">http://rackshack.net/english/index.asp</a>; doesn't cooperate, then MacUpdate will be dead!!
Unfortunately he didn't do a back up because "it's only been there 3-4 weeks, so I didn't setup a backup routine outside of the network. Didn't think this would happen so quickly".
I much prefer this site over Versiontracker as it is faster and it's free, unlike VT which requires you to click on multiple links before downloading.
If anyone has any suggestions, let him know please by posting here. Thanks.
MacUpdate's hard drive took a dive this morning and will no longer boot. This has caused unexpected down time for the MacUpdate site.
We are going to attempt to make the drive a secondary drive in the machine and copy the data over. If this doesn't work, we are in a very bad position, as the MacUpdate site and database are not backed up outside of this drive.
Keep us in your prayers if you would please.
-Joel Mueller
[email protected]<hr></blockquote>
I just talked to him on iChat and so far the data center techs aren't cooperating! They refuse (so far) to help swap the drives. There is one guy there who is trying to help him by calling management at home cause they don't work weekends.
If <a href="http://rackshack.net/english/index.asp"; target="_blank">http://rackshack.net/english/index.asp</a>; doesn't cooperate, then MacUpdate will be dead!!
Unfortunately he didn't do a back up because "it's only been there 3-4 weeks, so I didn't setup a backup routine outside of the network. Didn't think this would happen so quickly".
I much prefer this site over Versiontracker as it is faster and it's free, unlike VT which requires you to click on multiple links before downloading.
If anyone has any suggestions, let him know please by posting here. Thanks.
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Are the computers they used Macs??
<strong>And..if you feel so inclined as to voice your opinion to that webhost about why they should help out MacUpdate, email them here at their tech support:
[email protected]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Rackshack has notoriously bad support.
They are far and away the cheapest dedicated host... but you are on your own.
The support option you generally have with major problems is "Wipe and restore the machine" to factory defaults.
arn
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