Hosting 5 — IMPORTANT

Vou­liag­meni, March 8, 2009 — by Yorgo Nestoridis

Recov­ery

1. Back-ups: as on Chi­Hosters we offer server­side back-up fetures to resellers at a min­i­mal cost: as soon as our own site is back up and func­tional we will put this fea­ture back on offer.

2. As we have reported ear­lier (Update 4), all auto­mated back-ups have been installed and are running.

3. Fur­ther Recov­ery: We con­tinue to spend hard bucks and time on fur­ther recov­ery. All fur­ther recov­er­ies need to be done man­u­ally and it takes about 1 hour per user account (pro rates apply), whereas I am aware that some resellers have quite a lot of them.

Here is the deal: there are some sites with hardly any con­tent where it s eas­ier to do new set-ups. Let’s not waste time and money on those.

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Own­ers must send us a list with user­names (only User names) which they want us to recover: please don’t include accounts with hardly any con­tent as the time needed is the same as for a con­tent rich site, but it’s sim­ply not worth doing it.

Please send the lists to my per­sonal email at yorgo(at)yorgo.net, copy to Zo at admin(at)cashbizz.com, include your name and the user­name of your whm account. With out the list of user­names of your cus­tomers we are unable to find the sites and match­ing data­bases you wish to recover.

Please get a feel from the below about what we con­sider being worth while recoveing.

4. Ycademy.net and Semiomantics.net

The recov­ery of both net­works is about impos­si­ble and be it just for cost rea­sons. On Ycad­emy we pro­ject about 120 hours of work and on Semi­oman­tics about 100. On a per sub-domain cost of $85 that’s heavy, con­sid­er­ing namely that each user site will need another input of at least 1 hour from our side to recon­fig­ure and make the site vis­i­ble. We have run a test on semiomantics.com where we were able to recover to date data!

I believe that we can do bet­ter by rebuild­ing these two net­works from scratch and to build them accor­ing to the pub­lish­ing model and the con­cepts we have started imple­ment­ing dur­ing our last sem­i­nar. As usual, Ycad­emy Proswill get the lat­est tech­nol­ogy and the best sites out there.

5. Ycon­omy, Fun-shopping, BrendaBaker

We will tempt to recover these two sites.

6. Gar­den­route Direc­tory, Gar­den­Route­Host­ing, Gar­den­Route Pub­lish­ing, HC.com

We are expect­ing a response about qual­ity of data; as these sites are cus­tom built’ a recov­ery is worth while.

Spirit

7. Sites we will not recover but rebuild

http://biancagubalke.com
http://zonicholas.com
http://polenas.com
http://blogmasterclass.com
http://yorgoopublishing.net
http://teampreneurs.com
http://yconomy.info
http://ycademy.com
http://authentic-brand.com
http://astroblogy.com
http://gardenroutemagazine.com
http://nurtinsider.com
http://yorgoopress.com

All the above sites have been built by Semi­oman­tics and we will re-build them ASAP.

8. In-house back-ups vs. rebuilding

We dis­pose of in-house back-ups of some of the large sites we will not recover, such as Ycademy.net. How­ever load­ing these back-ups which are of cnsid­er­able size 5–10 GB is about as slow as rebuild­ing and improv­ing the set up. We will address Ycad­emy pro users sep­a­rately to col­lect infor­ma­tion needed for the base of the new network.

More Spirit

9. Respon­si­bil­ity

Please, let me insist on the fact that each site owner is respon­si­ble for his site and that back­ing up your work is more than a mat­ter of basic main­te­nance; it’s a mat­ter of self-respect and the value you attribute to your work, time and money spent. Some times we have to learn the hard way to esti­mate val­ues. This may well be the case for some of us this time as well.

Host Mas­ters: it is clearly your respon­si­bil­ity to back-up or to out-source back­ing up your cus­tomers’ accounts!

A spe­cial Host Mas­ter Call this week will deal with secu­rity and main­te­nance issues and I would appre­ci­ate could all con­cerned Host Mas­ters be present. Watch out for a spe­cial announcement.

10. Impact

Finally the impact of the issue will be lim­ited. I under­stand cus­tomers impa­tience, how­ever it’s often bet­ter to recover a site after a few days than to redo all the work again.

We have to learn our lessons from this inci­dent. In as much as I am con­cerned: we will build in auto­mated back-up fea­tures into all our host­ing pro­grams and make them a stan­dard fea­ture. The same we will do with Semi­oman­tics scripts where we are test­ing an auto­mated data­base back-up fea­ture intro­duced into the lat­est script release planned for the March Seminar.

Thank you for your sup­port­ive and kind com­ments — it’s one of the great­est gifts on earth to be able work with friends and pos­i­tive spirits!

Yorgo

• trans­port only user name
• let only user name

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Tags: GardenRoute Publishing, Hosting, Semiomantics.net, Ycademy.net, Yorgo Nestoridis

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