Back to the Future
According to a system status message (that wasn’t sent out to customers, I had to find it myself), there was a major server crash that included the corruption of all nightly backups. Well, as it turns out the most recent backup they had (stored remotely) was from sometime in October. That’s why all of the stuff that’s happened since then (posts, comments, johnnyconvo comments, etc.) are gone.
I don’t really want to ramble on and on about this, so to summarize, this situation basically stinks but most of the blame for lack of backups falls on me for not executing my own routine backups. The fact that the webhost creates backups for their customers is a service that, while common, is more of a added feature than a requirement. However, this more recent forgivable inconvenience is an anomoly in a growing list of inconveniences that are hardly ever explained or resolved with any sort of compensation. So, suffice it to say that as soon as someone hires me, I will be changing servers.
Oh and to the participants of the Ralle Cup fantasy racing, this definitely means we’ll have an automated points updater for next year because I’m definitely not going back and re-entering all of that race data by hand. JohnnyH, you’re still the official winner.