As a lot of you seen, AnandTech has spent a number of hours offline right now. We’re nonetheless in restoration mode in the intervening time (as I write this, the positioning has been restored to a duplicate from November 25th), however now that our main restoration efforts are accomplished, I wished to give you guys a short replace on the standing of AnandTech.
At round 13:00 UTC (5am PT) right now, the on-site cloud storage for AnandTech’s internet hosting supplier grew to become corrupted. In consequence, 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, relatively 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 ultimate, in the end all the pieces labored out and proved the need for off-site backups.
We’re nonetheless working to revive content material from the previous couple of days. Articles will probably be again, however we’ve possible misplaced any feedback and person account registrations/updates made since noon Friday. Sorry about that! And thanks for bearing with us throughout right now’s outage.
