What Happened To Large Format Photography (DOT) info?

<p>What happened to Large format Photography (DOT) info? The server has been down for several days now . . .anyone know?</p>

<p>I heard somebody knocked the server over and smashed it! They said they'd be back as soon as they can get a new one up and running. Hope thats soon!</p>

<p>A maintenance crew knocked the machine over and it fell about three feet to the floor.</p>

<p>There's a replacement on order. They hope to have it up by the 9th, optimistically.</p>

<p>- Leigh</p>

 

<p>Copied from the Emergency/Temporary server page at LFPF:</p>

<p> The Large Format Photography server is temporarily offline</p>

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<p>Alas, a maintenance crew knocked our server onto the ground from a height of about 3 feet, and it was badly damaged. A new server has been ordered for rush delivery, but it is unlikely to be installed and configured until 9 July 2011 at the soonest. This is an emergency page on another server; we will keep this information up to date as we know more.</p>

<p>Thank you for your patience and your understanding</p>

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<p>So it is not a hacker attack . . .more like a <em><strong>whac-</strong></em>attack! You would think that the likelyhood of a physical incident would be very low in a data center. </p>

<p>Thanks for the info.</p>

<p>If I understood it correctly, somebody dropped Virtual Machine.<br>

;)</p>

<p>But it is back now.</p>

<p>These things can take a while to sort out. One service provider I know of took around a month IIRC to replace their server. And their service was entirely server dependant.</p>

<p>Most everything seems back to normal at LFPF now.<br>

Originally Posted by <strong>Tom Westbrook, A Moderator at LFPF</strong> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?p=749019#post749019"><img title="View Post" src="http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/images/buttons/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="View Post" /></a></p>

<blockquote>As you likely noticed we had a server outage that lasted a few days due to a data center accident. The LF Home Page site and the LF Forum have been recovered up to 3:00am Wednesday, July 6th--the time of our last backup.<br /> <br /> <em><strong>Your action may be needed:</strong></em> Any forum change you made--for example posts, PMs, new registrations, user option changes, marked-as-read posts, etc.--between 3am and about 3PM July 6 was lost and cannot be recovered. You will need to manually redo any forum actions you took during that time period.<br /> <br /> We apologize for the inconvenience.</blockquote>