Announcement: Tuesday Posts Missing

[Louie]

Cappersinfo Members,

I apologize for the downtime this morning. You also may notice that some posts from yesterday up until the time of this post are also gone. This thread can be the official "Make Fun of Louie for Being a Complete Idiot" thread if you want. I really deserve it.

The reason for this happening is that I accidentally deleted the entire database and account that holds all the posts, member information, etc. The database was stored on the old domain account (thesportsboard.com) and I deleted this account because I thought that we no longer needed it.

I was ready to slit my wrists last night and almost broke down into tears as I thought that everything was completely gone for good. Lucky the company that I pay for our dedicated VPS that holds the site, stores a nightly backup of everything which i didn't know about. I really thought it was all gone. They were able to restore the database.

However, the latest back-up that they had was from May 13 @ 5AM (EST). So, we are going to be miss all posts from 5/13 @ 5AM until 5/14 @ 6AM. I apologize for my stupidity and I promise this will not happen again. this was the biggest mistake that I have ever made in the 7 years that i have been managing this site. I do have the current Survivor standings as of today as I posted them before it went down last night and I saved a copy before posting. Let move on and pick some winners. Best of luck today.

Again, I apologize to everyone for my terrible mistake. Forgive me (or make fun of me) whatever you want. I deserve all the abuse.

[hlr13miami]

No worries..... Crazy sh*t happens from time to time and you just happened to be sitting under an elephant this time.

Be glad they do not fly........

[donkeypunch]

Originally Posted by Louie

This thread can be the official "Make Fun of Louie for Being a Complete Idiot" thread if you want.

I love it when we get to make fun of the admin

Take it from someone who works in IT and manages servers....it happens, but a solid backup plan can be your friend.

btw, fwiw.....I had the Hornets, Kansas City, the Under in the Detroit Game, San Diego all winning last night....true story

[Louie]

I hit the Tigers on the Runline....

I was ready to cry last night. But, this site is hosted on a dedicated VPS server and they do daily backups of my account...

[Louie]

Another shitty thing is. I had just got done adding about 50 new smilies to the boards and orginizing them all. I will try to do that again tonight and get them all back. I was posting too telling everyone about them last night...

[Louie]

Well, I fixed up the smilies and added new ones (for the second time). I know you all love smilies. So, check out some of the new ones and let me know what your favorites are.... I will add some more later. Although, we really do have a ton of em now. Here are some of the new ones...



There are a lot more...

[donkeypunch]

Grandy and Justin will be thrilled! There are some absolute gems in there Louie.

[Louie]

Originally Posted by donkeypunch

Grandy and Justin will be thrilled! There are some absolute gems in there Louie.

Yea, I know JT will like em for sure... I like this one a lot, dude carrying bas of cash...>> I added it to the main smilie window...

This one is good too....

[grandmaster]

Originally Posted by Louie

Cappersinfo Members,

I apologize for the downtime this morning. You also may notice that some posts from yesterday up until the time of this post are also gone. This thread can be the official "Make Fun of Louie for Being a Complete Idiot" thread if you want. I really deserve it.

The reason for this happening is that I accidentally deleted the entire database and account that holds all the posts, member information, etc. The database was stored on the old domain account (thesportsboard.com) and I deleted this account because I thought that we no longer needed it.

I was ready to slit my wrists last night and almost broke down into tears as I thought that everything was completely gone for good. Lucky the company that I pay for our dedicated VPS that holds the site, stores a nightly backup of everything which i didn't know about. I really thought it was all gone. They were able to restore the database.

However, the latest back-up that they had was from May 13 @ 5AM (EST). So, we are going to be missing all posts from 5/13 @ 5AM until 5/14 @ 6AM. I apologize for my stupidity and I promise this will not happen again. this was the biggest mistake that I have ever made in the 7 years that i have been managing this site. I do have the current Survivor standings as of today as I posted them before it went down last night and I saved a copy before posting. Let move on and pick some winners. Best of luck today.

Again, I apologize to everyone for my terrible mistake. Forgive me (or make fun of me) whatever you want. I deserve all the abuse.

Stupid computer!

[bigwinnner8]

If anyone else but the mastermind behind this whole site were responsible for losing the posts, I'd be all over them. But its hard to rip on Louie spending all this time and effort to make this site what it is. No worries, keep doing what you're doing.


PS: After the day I'm having today, I'm a personal fan of
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[Louie]

Originally Posted by grandmaster

Stupid computer!

lol

[crzbrave]

haha thank god for backups. I was wondering why the site was down. But it is back now, yay!