The Great Atomictumor Outage and Recovery of ‘06
June 24th, 2006 by Atomictumor
In May of 2006, Atomictumor went down, along with the Rocky Top Brigade, Knoxjon, Knoxblogs, and a whole host of stuff that was hosted on a shared computer run by a big name hosting company.
At about 7 that morning, the sites went down. No access by FTP, browsing, homing pigeon, nothing. After a few days of uncertainty, it came out that in the fairly routine process of moving a hard drive from one computer to another, the hard drive lost a lot of information.
How much information? Well, the entire SQL database, containing all previous posts, comments, and forum entries. Some of the stored images. The Wordpress guts, requiring an uninstall. Basically, we were crippled. To make matters worse, I had no database backup (let that be a lesson).
A search on Google’s cache restored most of the old stuff, but some of our favorites were lost. GAC’s post on our trip to Kerbela Shriner Circus last year, which was our first Google ‘lucky’ post, sadly didn’t make it over.
I started putting the old stuff back into the SQL tables manually, but it wasn’t working out well, so instead I’m just linking to the static pages available.