First let me thank Jason and Alex for helping me get my forum back up and running.
If your web services are hosted, make damn sure they actually do the back-ups they claim to do. I found out the hard way. Of course if they're lying to you, not much you can do but hold your breath. After about 2 months of some really good growth for my forum, the SQL server flamed out and the db was "not recoverable". I had my own DTS export, but it was over 45 days old. In that period we had gone from 100 subscribers to nearly 400. The hit was fatal for the momentum we had started to build.
That disaster was followed by numerous configuration problems and I was starting think either I or my copy of Gforums was cursed
. This week Jason resolved the last of the issues and after two months I'm finally ready to relaunch our forum. <whew!>
Well this ran longer than I thought, I'll append my question.
If your web services are hosted, make damn sure they actually do the back-ups they claim to do. I found out the hard way. Of course if they're lying to you, not much you can do but hold your breath. After about 2 months of some really good growth for my forum, the SQL server flamed out and the db was "not recoverable". I had my own DTS export, but it was over 45 days old. In that period we had gone from 100 subscribers to nearly 400. The hit was fatal for the momentum we had started to build.
That disaster was followed by numerous configuration problems and I was starting think either I or my copy of Gforums was cursed
. This week Jason resolved the last of the issues and after two months I'm finally ready to relaunch our forum. <whew!> Well this ran longer than I thought, I'll append my question.
Thanks...and a question