TGO David

No, I generally don't want a lock on an automatic knife. But I also choose knives that are not easily opened, let alone accidentally, and I only carry automatics in certain situations for specific defensive purposes and they are not my only nor primary knife even then. I have several of them now. My favorite is probably my Microtech DIRAC Delta. It is a largish double-edged automatic and the activation switch is arranged such that it is ambidextrous. The switch also requires an intentional shove to activate and the blade will halt if it encounters resistance. That knife is carried on my weak side to be used as a "get the hell off me" tool if I am fighting someone over control of my handgun. It's not used for opening Amazon boxes, whittling sticks, or cleaning under my fingernails.

Thank you.

Yes - anything done after August 17th until yesterday would be gone. PMs included.

We were on dedicated hardware since around 2013 or 2014, but we are back to a virtualized solution now. MacGyver and I are starting to research just moving it all to Azure for better scalability, tough.

Honestly that's me these days. I read more than I post. With shorter days and longer nights around the corner, I'm sure that my activity will pick back up.

It really should be.

Had it taken another day to rebuild, I would have told you to just send your money to the local liquor store under my name.

We've used them for a few years. Last year they were purchased by another company. The prices went up but they [quietly] abandoned the Managed Service Provider model and went to pure bare-bones hosting. When I reached out to them for assistance yesterday, I was advised that they no longer did that sort of thing and that it was up to me to handle every aspect of the recovery. So, I hired a new company last night -- one that does do managed services -- and fired the old company today.

I love my MR920. The CR920 ought to be fantastic!

This is what real friends do!

The shameful part is that we had about 30-days worth of backups that would have prevented us from losing all but maybe 8-hours worth of activity, but they were destroyed when the hardware failure occurred. Normally those would have been replicated offsite and to the cloud, but part of the automation that I wrote wasn't running and I just didn't notice it.

It was not a fun period of time. I think you're the first person to post since, though.

Hey gang. Welcome back to TGO. There is a lot to cover in this post, so I am going to try to hit things in the order of most important or impacting, to least. Where is my TGO user account? If you created an account on TGO after August 17th you will most likely need to create your account again. We lost almost 30-days worth of data in this crash. What Happened To My Benefactor Account? A lot of my work today has been around connecting Benefactor memberships with those who purchased them. I was successful with most of them, but there are a few of you (less than 10) that I will be reaching out to in email so that we can work together to get you squared away. I am prioritizing this near the top of importance because you guys keep TGO afloat and I will take care of you. I posted something and now it's gone! Anything posted after August 17th is lost. I am very sorry. I suppose the good news is that if you posted something and regretted it, you now have a second chance. This part really sucks and I am absolutely not trying to down-play it. Trust me, however upset you are, I am infinitely more upset. I hope that you'll dive back in and recreate whatever we lost. What happened?!? This is the million dollar question. Our server suffered a catastrophic hardware failure that could not be recovered from. Thankfully we had backups, but I had to go back 30-days in time to find a backup that was viable. This problem had unfortunately been brewing for a while and I did not notice it in time. Prior to today (9/18/23) we were using a different web hosting company. We aren't using them now because I am greatly disappointed in their ability to assist and am livid over the outcome. The best and only way for me to respond was to move TGO to another hosting company who I believe will be much more responsive and responsible. That said, I cannot place full blame on them. Sadly, I missed some signs which were obvious in hindsight so some of this is absolutely my fault. Especially related to backups. I am now making backups of my backups and storing them in several places (online, offline, and in the cloud) so that we have more recovery options if something like this ever happens again. How can we help?? Post, post, post. Dive back in and start using TGO. This will be a scar for a while, but like all scars it will eventually fade. Other than that, there really isn't anything to do. I just noticed [insert problem here]. If you notice anything weird with your account, especially with payments for Benefactor memberships, let me know. I'll sort it out and get you taken care of. That's about it for now. Thanks for your patience while we were offline. I suppose if there is a silver lining to all of this, it has provided a chance to do some things different and better behind the scenes. Hopefully those differences and improvements will equate to odds heavily in our favor for the future. --David

Hey gang. Welcome back to TGO. There is a lot to cover in this post, so I am going to try to hit things in the order of most important or impacting, to least. Where is my TGO user account? If you created an account on TGO after August 17th you will most likely need to create your account again. We lost almost 30-days worth of data in this crash. What Happened To My Benefactor Account? A lot of my work today has been around connecting Benefactor memberships with those who purchased them. I was successful with most of them, but there are a few of you (less than 10) that I will be reaching out to in email so that we can work together to get you squared away. I am prioritizing this near the top of importance because you guys keep TGO afloat and I will take care of you. I posted something and now it's gone! Anything posted after August 17th is lost. I am very sorry. I suppose the good news is that if you posted something and regretted it, you now have a second chance. This part really sucks and I am absolutely not trying to down-play it. Trust me, however upset you are, I am infinitely more upset. I hope that you'll dive back in and recreate whatever we lost. What happened?!? This is the million dollar question. Our server suffered a catastrophic hardware failure that could not be recovered from. Thankfully we had backups, but I had to go back 30-days in time to find a backup that was viable. This problem had unfortunately been brewing for a while and I did not notice it in time. Prior to today (9/18/23) we were using a different web hosting company. We aren't using them now because I am greatly disappointed in their ability to assist and am livid over the outcome. The best and only way for me to respond was to move TGO to another hosting company who I believe will be much more responsive and responsible. That said, I cannot place full blame on them. Sadly, I missed some signs which were obvious in hindsight so some of this is absolutely my fault. Especially related to backups. I am now making backups of my backups and storing them in several places (online, offline, and in the cloud) so that we have more recovery options if something like this ever happens again. How can we help?? Post, post, post. Dive back in and start using TGO. This will be a scar for a while, but like all scars it will eventually fade. Other than that, there really isn't anything to do. I just noticed [insert problem here]. If you notice anything weird with your account, especially with payments for Benefactor memberships, let me know. I'll sort it out and get you taken care of. That's about it for now. Thanks for your patience while we were offline. I suppose if there is a silver lining to all of this, it has provided a chance to do some things different and better behind the scenes. Hopefully those differences and improvements will equate to odds heavily in our favor for the future. --David

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