I'm still waiting to see if they can restore mine, have built a new one temporarily, not had any email offering any compensation yet.
Posts by Chris Priest
35 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2007
Embattled 123-reg flings six months' free hosting at angry customers
UK web host 123-Reg goes TITSUP, customer servers evaporate
Re: Update email address FAIL
Probably overloaded! I sent one a couple of hours ago and so far it's not been bounced back, but hey, they've probably run a script to process email and deleted it :) (Smiley face as I'm trying to stay positive over this shambles)
NOTE: Still not had an update on my server tho....
Email from 123-reg.....
I am writing to you to explain what happened to some VPS services on 16.04.16. This email is to detail what our steps have been. I am committed to open communication with all customers and would like to take this opportunity to explain in detail.
So what happened to some services? As part of a clean-up process on the 123-reg VPS platform, a script was run at 7am on 16.04.16. This script is run to show us the number of machines active against the master database. An error on the script showed 'zero-records' response from the database for some live VPS. For those customers, this created a 'failure' scenario - showing no VM's and effectively deleting what was on the host. As a result of our team's investigations, we can conclude that the issues faced having resulted in some data loss for some customers. Our teams have been and continue to work to restore. What have we done? We have been working with an extended team of experts and have left no stone unturned. Our teams have been working long into the night to restore as much as we possibly can. We have also invested in external consultants to recover, in the best way possible.
We have recovery running on the VPS servers and some are restoring to new disks. We have also begun copying recovered VPS images to new hosts and we expect some VPS to be back up and running throughout the night and in to tomorrow.
Nexus 7 fandroids tell of salty taste after sucking on Google's Lollipop
Doctor Who trashing the TARDIS, Clara alone, useless UNIT – Death in Heaven
Actually, in a previous episode, Rise of the Cybermen, when the doctor and Mrs Moore were in the underground chamber and Mrs Moore lobs the EMP at the cyberman, the doctor reveals the emotional inhibitor under the cyberman's chest plate.
Personally I liked the episode, granted it was a bit daft, but the best bit for me was when the Doctor saluted Leftbridge-Stuart and he hung his head.
Amazon: Put our ALWAYS ON MICROPHONE in your house, please. WHAT?
BT claims almost-gigabit connections over COPPER WIRE
Re: 19 meters you say?
Agreed it is a regulatory issue, however they did talk about fitting cabs outside the exchange to host the VDSLx kit, but there seems to be no more information on when or if this will ever happen.
It would be nice to see BT bring their current infrastructure up to date before considering faster tech.
What about considering your EO customers!
I live for the day that they can actually deliver these kind of speeds on EO lines...
I have a fibre cab outside my house, but my line terminates in the exchange, no super spangly fibre like speeds for me :(
I know EO lines are the minority, but please don't forget us :)
BT to slap overalls on 1,000 new bods in fibre broadband boost
Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal
RIP BE
Yep, got the news this morning, will stick around for the moment, I am no fan of Sky either and I bet you can be sure that Sky won't continue BE's excellent routed subnet (Muti-Static) IP's on their network. Just got moved over to the new core network as well!
Sadly despite my local exchange being FTTC enabled, I am an EO line, so no fibre for me for the foreseeable future :(
BE worked well, great support and very few problems IMHO, Sky is overloaded at best, adding another 500,000 customers is suicide without shoring up their infrastructure (although the rate of calls to the BE cancellation department did shoot up this morning, so there may not be many left come the sale! :) )
Smart Fortwo Electric Drive e-car
Skype hangs up on users yet again
Motorola uncloaks 10.1-inch Xoom fondleslab
Virgin Media begins 100Mb upgrades
Osborne details painful cuts for UK
Nutter repairmen scale 1,768ft TV mast
Pakistani lawyer petitions for death of Mark Zuckerberg
Virgin Media boasts more subscribers and more losses
McAfee false positive bricks enterprise PCs worldwide
Update
It only seems to affect machines running the 8.7i engine and XP SP3.
Fortunately we had not rolled out 8.7i to everyone yet, so only a small subset of our machines were affected.
I found the easiest solution was to copy the dat files from a 8.5i machine with the 5957 dats and also take a copy of svchost.exe.
Boot machine normally, when you get the DCOM is shutting down crap, open a command prompt and abort the shutdown, open viruscan console, turn off Access protection then go and shut down the Mcafee services.
Copy the dats into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Mcafee\Engine.
Copy svchost.exe to c:\Windows\System32
Reboot, job done :)
Asus' Eee keyboard out next month - official
Reg bean counter in charity cycling towerathon
Johnson signs off ID card for UK citizenry
'Transportable' raygun 'deploys' - across Albuquerque
Mobiles finally admitted to English hospitals
'First production-line energy weapon' now shipping
Boffins calculate true speed of 'Lightning' Bolt
Ryanair begins screen-scraping lawsuit
Qinetiq ships first 'Transformer' war-droid
Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7?
Virgin Media stops the rot
SGI fires up fancy NAS for dummies
@Nir
"or areas needing something that makes a lot of noise and has pretty blinking lights."
Yes, I remember those, my boss had me build one and shove it in a rack, it was just a panel with lots of flashing leds, he used to call it the 'Impresser'
Never told any clients what it was, but it did look good in the rack and they seemed to be impressed with it :)