Alright back up! For those that hadn't guessed already UtaForum suffered some extended downtime.
This downtime was caused by the MySQL database that powers this site horribly corrupting after a server crash while the forum was in the middle of a critical read/write operation. The crash was caused by another website on our server node being DDOSed, overloading my server's memory, taking everyone hosted there down with it, UtaForum and many other sites I host included.
With our main database corrupted I have spent the last couple days recovering what I could from our backups. I was able to save the users table and its associated data, the forum structure, the threads, PMS, and even the polls but sadly 'mybb_posts' was the one table I wasn't able to recover.
I will try to see what I can do, but after having spent the last 5 days doing what I can I am not sure what else I can recover. I have even older backups, backups from early April but I am not sure how much good that will do us.
For now UtaForum is tentatively back with myBB but as a shadow of its former self. Myst, the staff, and myself have much to discuss about where we want to go from here. We hope to have an announcement soon. Please check back later.
This downtime was caused by the MySQL database that powers this site horribly corrupting after a server crash while the forum was in the middle of a critical read/write operation. The crash was caused by another website on our server node being DDOSed, overloading my server's memory, taking everyone hosted there down with it, UtaForum and many other sites I host included.
With our main database corrupted I have spent the last couple days recovering what I could from our backups. I was able to save the users table and its associated data, the forum structure, the threads, PMS, and even the polls but sadly 'mybb_posts' was the one table I wasn't able to recover.
I will try to see what I can do, but after having spent the last 5 days doing what I can I am not sure what else I can recover. I have even older backups, backups from early April but I am not sure how much good that will do us.
For now UtaForum is tentatively back with myBB but as a shadow of its former self. Myst, the staff, and myself have much to discuss about where we want to go from here. We hope to have an announcement soon. Please check back later.