The JNC server experienced a disk failure Friday night. It took almost the entire weekend for our webhost to diagnose and rectify the problem. We had to restore to the most recent backup, which was taken at 9:00am Friday. The weekend articles have been subsequently reposted but some comments were lost. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Finally hope you post the recent(and saddest one)
Yes, unfortunately that one was lost but we are working on reposting it. Thanks!
The Katayama obituary is back up! Parts of it had to be re-written but I think it’s even better now.
Thanks for your hard work. Weirdness abounds :/
Thank you for reading!
Welcome back, you were missed.
Thank you! It was stressful, but we’re glad to be back!
Being without JNC for a couple of days was nerve-wracking!
We felt the same way!
I thought that I was somehow being punished for not owning enough JNCs.. I’m glad that you’re up and running again, sorry to hear about the troubles.
We are a welcoming community, so we will never punish anyone per se. But yeah, you need more JNCs!
Ha! Amen to that, brother!
Pweeh! I almost thought I was getting censored for my Rocket Bunny disdain! Lol
I’d have to ban half the JNC staff it that was the case 😉
Maybe professional help is needed to get everything back in order. I know a lot of people have stopped coming here because the amount of outages and slow traffic.While not intential losing posts here is far too common. I used to post on 2 or 3 sites for that very reason.
Surely even the most basic cheap servers have built in disk redundancy these days.
The thing is we DO have professional help. the webhosting company was working to get the server back online all weekend. I’m not sure why they didn’t have redundancy but now that the issue seems mostly solved we will have to find out.
Ben i suspect someone is telling porkkes. Hosting companies these days wouldn’t use dedicated severs but would use some sort of cloud service where they can easily move the jnc service with a mouse move or automatically when failure occurs. Thats what virtualisation and all the money in IT is these days. Everything from severs to network equipment.
Sorry for the tech lesson but they’re been a lame provider.
I’m not familiar with all the terminology, but you sound like you are far more educated on these matters. JNC lives on a Cloud VPS. When we first started having problems Friday night, it was traced to an bad HVM and migrated.
It was up for 8 hours Saturday, then kept crashing. Each time the server was rebooted, it wouldn’t progress without a file system check. That was traced to a disk error Sunday night. That’s when they decided to (I think) install a new disk and restore off a backup taken Friday.
Does this sound likely? I have no clue about these things. And no need to apologize. I definitely want to know if the company is lame! We went with them because they were ranked in a top 5 list on Lifehacker. Thanks for your help!