As a lot of you observed, AnandTech has spent a number of hours offline right this moment. We’re nonetheless in restoration mode for the time being (as I write this, the positioning has been restored to a replica from November 25th), however now that our main restoration efforts are accomplished, I needed to give you guys a short replace on the standing of AnandTech.
At round 13:00 UTC (5am PT) right this moment, the on-site cloud storage for AnandTech’s internet hosting supplier grew to become corrupted. Consequently, AnandTech (and another websites) had been introduced offline. Because of the nature of the corruption and the necessity to start restoration efforts ASAP, we opted to revive the positioning from an off-site chilly storage backup, slightly than trusting the questionable on-site storage.
That is the primary time we’ve ever needed to execute our off-site information restoration plan earlier than. And whereas it meant AT took a bit longer to revive than can be excellent, finally every thing labored out and proved the need for off-site backups.
We’re nonetheless working to revive content material from the previous few days. Articles will probably be again, however we’ve probably misplaced any feedback and person account registrations/updates made since noon Friday. Sorry about that! And thanks for bearing with us throughout right this moment’s outage.
