Hardware crash

January 5th, 2010 admin

Early this morning, our hosting provider reported to us that two of the discs on our database server had broken and as a result had crashed the database. We’ve immediately started to build a new hot server and transfer a back-up of the database on to that, but with such a massive database it might be a few hours before that is up and running. We’re going to work as fast as we can and hopefully Twitterfeed should…


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