On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:45:22PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
Secondly, what happened to the old wiki, it can't of just vanished? Hackers, server failure, corrupt database, wiped by the hosts, has the hosting company shut down? Who was the hosting company?
This is all what I understand, the details might be /slightly/ different as it wasn't myself that was involved with the status of the wiki.
Anyhow, what I understand that happened was the website stopped working one day last week, there was no dialogue established with the provider after someone tried to mail them directly. While someone was taking a backup of the wiki their login was terminated and ssh login disabled, as yet I don't think anyone who has asked has heard anything back so as something must be done the wiki has been reborn.
If I've got anything in the above wrong hopefully someone will put me right.
Also, it is worth pointing out that we were not paying for this hosting and it was provided generously for free so we can't complain at what has happened. Although it is a shame that we weren't spoken too before the wiki disappeared and that the attempts to get in touch haven't been successful as we could have at least recovered the content before losing access to it.
Thanks Adam