We have our archives back.. All of it. Watergirl and I have seen them, been in them, and it appears to be all there. Next week we are going to discuss a plan on how to merge everything from this site, the archives, and the home away from home.
Additionally, I have purchased software to back up the site ourselves, and Bizbudding is creating as way for us to easily download a backup ourselves. I’m going to buy another solid state drive and just download a hard copy every couple of days.
In the future, we are also going to get a second hosting site that we will never use, but have host us in case anything like this happens again, so we will have our current hosting and their several backups on different cloud servers, my manual backups, and a different hosting site independent of those two that none of you can access. So all bases will be covered.
We’re going on a year since the last fundraiser, so we will probably do one in a bit, but I will keep you posted.
Again, great news and I am very relieved. We got the family jewels back.
Steve requests that you keep your applause down, though, as it is late.
cain
Excellent! Looking forward to seeing everything put back the way it was!
ETA – what the fuck, yo!? How many times today am I going to post first?
Elizabelle
Woo hoo! That’s fabulous news. Good to hear it.
WaterGirl
This is why I wrote this morning that today is a good day. It was John’s news to share, but I am very excited! And very relieved.
Scout211
Oh my. Excellent news!
Wyatt Salamanca
Best news I’ve heard in weeks!
mrmoshpotato
Totally fucking awesome news!
When this shit happened, I felt so bad that you (all) possibly lost 20+ years of work.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I was crushed.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I assume that your empty quote box represents the emptiness of losing 20 years of history? :-)
edit: with your edit, my comment now makes no sense.
eclare
Yay! How is little Henry?
NotMax
Well, that pitches any “I never said that” right out the window.
:) //
WaterGirl
@eclare: he is good. I have a follow up post, but posts were coming fast and furious today so it will go up tomorrow.
thanks for asking!
YY_Sima Qian
Great news!
mrmoshpotato
@cain:
Dude! You know what you did!
TaMara
Well yippee ki-yay mother…you know the rest.
That is one magnificent beast. I may have to save the photo.
Wolvesvalley
That is indeed excellent news! Congratulations to those who made it possible.
And that is an excellent photo of Steve. What gorgeous eyes he has.
livewyre
This is amazing to hear after all that happened. Big thanks to JC, WG, and all those who put their hours and funds and hearts into this place (and set up the temp one while we were jonesing). Be one ever a lurker, there’s no place like home.
Sfinny
Love Steve. Working on integrating my new cat, but came home and the pair are on my bed about 5 inches from each other. This is the pair that chase each other every night like it is the end of the world if they catch each other.
WaterGirl
@TaMara: Steve knows what you did.
Layer8Problem
Congratulations! You all deserve manicures at your favorite day spas from all the nail-biting this must have put you through.
Benw
STEBE
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Haha. Empty quote boxes sometimes make it into my initial posts.
Emerald
Oh frabjous day!
mrmoshpotato
@eclare:
And has his tongue swallowed him yet?
prostratedragon
Great news! And handsome Steve!
Ghost of Joe Liebling’s Dog
Verrrrrrry glad!
CaseyL
Fantastic news! Congrats!
And Steve… just so handsome. Always good to see him.
Suzanne
Woot woot!
Ken
Wait, this is work?
It is very good news, and I thank all those who made it happen.
JanieM
Yay!!!!
Wag
You two just made my night. Hell, you two made my week!
Steeplejack
Excellent news!
James E Powell
There are some really outstanding people working to make this community possible.
Thank you.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken:
Not for us commenting peons.
glc
Excellent.
Forever’s gonna start tonight!
Joy in FL
That is good news. And Steve is even more magnificent than he was before.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato:
You aren’t getting paid?
Omnes Omnibus
Did you also find the mustard?
Ohio Mom
What great news — I am especially happy for you Cole to have your life’s work back.
Sister Golden Bear
[Bill and Ted voice] Excellent!
Another Scott
Great news!
Not to make more work, especially not for WG, but please think a bit about whether it makes sense to dump everything into the active dB or whether it makes sense to have a small active dB (e.g. the current year or two) and a larger archive dB (or even flat-file dB since it won’t be changing) that people can look at when they want to see some history (years 3-eleventy-seven) without dragging the site down.
Just a thought. :-)
Looking forward to the fundraiser! Will we be able to bid on Lost Mustard NFTs??
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
‘@Another Scott
Bored Canape Yacht Club!
:)
BeautifulPlumage
Yay! But what about
365364…299298 Data Centers? Did they pay a ransom? Was it something else? Inquiring minds and all that.BigJimSlade
Yay! And here I am all ready to go out and collect more pictures for future OTRs! (Alps are in my near future.)
frosty
Great news! Thanks to everyone who had a hand in this. I admit to slacking on donations (you all don’t beg as much as TPM and Wonkette) but I’ll pitch coin in the kitty when you announce the fundraiser. I seem to spend half my life here and B-J deserves it.
frosty
@BigJimSlade: Two days from now I’m wrapping up a five-month cross-country road trip. I have enough text and pictures for a month’s worth of OTRs.
Grover Gardner
A very quiet “yay”…
Ivan X
Great news! And of course I am interested in the inside baseball. I saw both 3xxDC and BB had their normal sites back up a couple of days ago, so I was curious if something had moved and if the archives had been successfully retrieved. Did the target of the attack pony up? Or was there another resolution? I’m so curious about the details. But congrats to all and thank you for the hard work, especially you, WG.
Fair Economist
Best site ever.
Amir Khalid
This is the bestest news. Out of respect for Steve’s wishes, yay.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
Congratulations! And may I say that Steve is gorgeous!! What a magnificent cat. Thanks for the pic.
KrackenJack
<<golf clap>>
I was wondering this morning what the status of the old site was and now I know.
I foresee a psychic hotline in my future.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Go on… :)
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear: Yes!
Major Major Major Major
Hot damn! That’s great news!
HumboldtBlue
Sweet Jesus holding up a mirror to my ridiculously handsome face, can we find a way to delete them again?
Also, the rant upstairs is righteous cool too.
Jackie
What wonderful news!
And, Steve!
Ruckus
John.
Steve looks hungry. He looks like he’s expecting sustenance. He looks great.
Are you sure it’s safe to sleep?
Carlo Graziani
Excellent! So 3xx finally either paid the ransom or a ransomware recovery consultant. What a bunch of clueless yutzes. Is the lawsuit still in progress?
This is way, way better than rebuilding WordPress databases from the Internet Archive version. Your backup and DR design sounds pretty good. I would add a periodic DR test — there are hair-raising stories of organizations that did not realize that some configuration change somewhere had compromised their recovery plan until one day…
Baud
Shit. I was hoping the evidence was destroyed.
lowtechcyclist
Great news! Looking forward to revisiting the original “tire rims and anthrax” post and other classics.
HeleninEire
Excellent news!
Matt Smith
Happy for you, John Cole. And the rest of the family.
satby
Congratulations. And what @Another Scott: said. The improved performance without having all the archives to update and index has been nice.
I’m a little appalled you would have to pay for a backup site to swing to in a disaster, that hosting company should have had that. It’s a standard in the business.
H.E.Wolf
Wonderful news!
Many thanks to John C. and WaterGirl for your tenacity and perseverance.
Gin & Tonic
Shit, so all those stupid comments I’ve posted over the years will be back?
cvannatta
Congratulations! I’ll be all in for a donation to improve Balloon-Juice’s resiliency.
J.
Great news! Though why does Steve have a metal pipe?
MazeDancer
Wonderful news. Also admire your back-up to back-up to back-up to back-up plan.
Mo MacArbie
Yes! I am grateful to know I haven’t lurked and commented late on dead threads in vain. Oh, and I’m happy for you all too.
worn
Well that’s some awesome fucking news to read this morning to be sure!
Paul in KY
Great news, John. Kudos to the team who got this done!
Madeleine
Late, but, YAY! Thank you, John, WaterGirl, et al. YAY!
And that shot of Steve is great. What eyes!
Bobby Thomson
Steve truly is a magnificent beast
different-church-lady
How much do I need to apologize for?
different-church-lady
@J.:
We know what we did.
dkinPa
Wonderful news! Looks like you’ve covered all the bases! Steve looks great, too.
joel hanes
Endless praise for Cole and Watergirl
jnfr
Very happy to hear this. I’ll watch for the fundraiser for sure.