What happened to Large format Photography (DOT) info? The server has been down for several days now . . .anyone know?
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!
A maintenance crew knocked the machine over and it fell about three feet to the floor. There's a replacement on order. They hope to have it up by the 9th, optimistically. - Leigh
Copied from the Emergency/Temporary server page at LFPF: The Large Format Photography server is temporarily offline 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. Thank you for your patience and your understanding
So it is not a hacker attack . . .more like a whac-attack! You would think that the likelyhood of a physical incident would be very low in a data center. Thanks for the info.
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.
Most everything seems back to normal at LFPF now. Originally Posted by Tom Westbrook, A Moderator at LFPF 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. Your action may be needed: 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. We apologize for the inconvenience.