Archive for August, 2008

Server Transfers: PF3, PF4, PF5

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Hi everyone!

First of all, thanks for hosting with PhireFast – You rock!

So, we’ve seen some impressive growth in the last quarter and at this time are now able to switch to a more desirable network configuration.

What does that mean? It means we’re transferring PF3, PF4 and PF5 (for starters) to new boxes, still in Houston, Texas, USA.

Your website may appear to be down for short periods of time, but I assure you, this is just your Internet Service Provider re-propagating the new DNS information. (Information on Propagation)

RESELLERS: Website monitoring tools will NOT see your site as down during this time. This should be a seamless transfer.

Please, if you have any questions, feel free to submit a ticket via our Help Desk.

Thank you for your understanding! I’ll keep you posted through the night. :-D

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Harddrive Corruption: “Oh No!”

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

It’s a simple story, with potential for tradgedy – I went out of town this week (to meet our credit card processing team face-to-face.) I was gone for a total of 5 days, 4 nights. On night 2, my personal laptop decided to die, claiming “a system file has been deleted or corrupted and windows cannot start.”

Thanks to the always-abundant help from the folks over at my local computer shop, we were able to get it back up-and-running today.

But the question everybody’s been asking is “DIDN’T YOU LOSE ALL YOUR DATA?!?!”

Again, paralleling the theme of simplicity, the short answer is “NO.”

Thanks to the technology from R1Soft (which we’ve been using since earlier this year,) like PhireFast’s servers, my personal laptop is also backed up to an offsite secure server every hour that it’s powered on.

The process was as simple as reinstalling windows (with full NTFS re-format) and having the backup system restore the files to the laptop.

Much success and a big thanks to R1Soft for developing great software! :-D

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