Well.
I recently received this email;
Initially - I thought this would mean no problem, as I had backups going to my webserver and vice versa.
Whilst trying to connect to anembra.com I noticed the website(s) were also down.
What I did not know - was that both VPSes were running on the same node, and crashing both my sites and the Minecraft server all at once.
I had older off-site backups of the websites which means minor losses here, but unfortunately a tremendous loss server-wise.
This means I am not able to restore any data from the actual game-server.
I'm not sure wether to feel sad or glad about it - as we currently have a very low playerbase.
Regardless, this won't mean the end of Anembra - and I'll instead do my best to turn it into an opportunity.
With 1.9 coming up very shortly a brand new map might spark some interest for both new and old players.
Unfortunately - I will not restore the server until 1.9 actually is here, as it'll most likely result in double the amount of work.
I'm terribly sorry for the loss and I hope this turns out for the better good.
/Knas
I recently received this email;
This basically means the whole node crashed for the current host.some hours ago the disk of the node pm67 started logging errors and then was remounted read only. After the initial invstigation we discovered that 2 disks of the raid5 stopped working at the same time causing the raid to become inconsistent.
We started doing everything possible to recover the raid but so far without any progress; at this point we believe that chances to recover any data are very minimal.
The server will be reinstalled as soon as the new disks will be delivered to the datacenter in the next 24 hours (all disks will be replaced). A new empty vps will be then created.
Initially - I thought this would mean no problem, as I had backups going to my webserver and vice versa.
Whilst trying to connect to anembra.com I noticed the website(s) were also down.
What I did not know - was that both VPSes were running on the same node, and crashing both my sites and the Minecraft server all at once.
I had older off-site backups of the websites which means minor losses here, but unfortunately a tremendous loss server-wise.
This means I am not able to restore any data from the actual game-server.
I'm not sure wether to feel sad or glad about it - as we currently have a very low playerbase.
Regardless, this won't mean the end of Anembra - and I'll instead do my best to turn it into an opportunity.
With 1.9 coming up very shortly a brand new map might spark some interest for both new and old players.
Unfortunately - I will not restore the server until 1.9 actually is here, as it'll most likely result in double the amount of work.
I'm terribly sorry for the loss and I hope this turns out for the better good.
/Knas