OxCreative

Technical Issues

Hi OxFollowers,

as most of you have probably realised, we’ve been having a few technical difficulties recently.

The hosting company we’ve have been using for the last 4 years let us down… badly! Whilst we should have been backing up the data, we were under the impression that the hosting company were completing daily backups. In reality, they hadn’t backed up since early august and had a RAID-1 configured storage system. The first hard drive failed and the second had corrupted, losing all of the OxCreative posts since August

We have a few posts that we can put back (hopefully we can recover the Tado and Kazumi Hirota interviews), and we are aiming to set up the Letraset competition again as soon as possible (the deadline will be extended to reflect the downtime).

In the meantime, we’ve switched to a new company with servers in the UK and US, fully redundant DNS and email clusters, daily backups and NAS used for storing server snapshots taken every couple of hours and with a RAID-5 configuration!

For those who have a website, make sure you back up your site (and databases!) as you never know what will happen!