Comments on: Someone MUST die for this

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:45:43 +0000

I’m waiting for the day when my online broker goes down and they have to ask how many shares I have. Guess it never works that way. Hang in there Marmot.

By: june

june — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:02:03 +0000

This is why I never trusted technology; It betrays us so easily. Where were Marmot’s artfully translated English Korean news and witty, hilarious comments from all?

By: Root

Root — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:40:09 +0000

Hi Marmot :). I have just had one of those. The numbskulls who run web mania lost my db and nearly one thousand comments. Fun.

By: Stephen Hucker

Stephen Hucker — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:52:21 +0000

Love your blog, shame about what happened
As an ex IT guy, I wouldn’t trust your ISP. Losing a months work is very unprofessional of them.
As a wordpress user my self I can recommend an excellent backup script for Wordpress 1.5

http://weblogtoolscollection.c.....ersion-13/

It is a plug-in for Wordpress 1.5
It lets you backup all your entries in the Mysql database as well as your wordpress folder.
and like blinger said, for an ISP I also recommend POWWEB

By: bloblo

bloblo — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:57:50 +0000

I have save the lee eun ju page from your blog last week… how can i sent it to you… i don’t see a email addresse ?

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:15:20 +0000

Total bummer Marmot. I’ll bet USFK wishes that would happen to the FreeFed’s ISP.

By: RD

RD — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:07:29 +0000

Sorry to hear the news. I was going to ask what happened to the Fight the Curfew blog but you have enough on your plate already. Hope you get this fixed soon and with minimal impact. Outstanding site.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:03:10 +0000

Sorry to hear about it. I was worried it had crashed due to my frequent overlong comments. I have too much time on my hands these day. Best of luck to you….

By: kimbob

kimbob — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:42:32 +0000

Paul H., the email from the ISP said ” primary drive failed”. It was probably just a hard drive failure.

Although I’m surprised that it effected the secondary drive and made that unusable as well. The purpose of the mirrored secondary drives is to take over seamlessly if and when the first drive brakes. If this scheme doesn’t work (as in this case to my surprise), why bother having a second drive as a mirror? At any rate, mirroring 2 drives is not the best of solutions. They should at least have RAID-5 (3 drives) as a minimum for high powered servers.

Something is not right. I think they goofed and wiped your data (which was still good at that point) off of the secondary drive while trying to rebuild the disk configuration after the first disk crashed. I agree with others, you should start looking for another ISP. You shouldn’t trust anybody who has no daily backup and can’t recover seamlessly from a simple disk crash. If the disk crash happened to a competent ISP, you wouldn’t have even known about the hard disk crash. That’s simply poor service and very unprofessional.

By: Paul H.

Paul H. — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:41:56 +0000

I’m surprised no one has yet suggested cyberwarfare, by NorK types (or more likely their ideological friends and/or paid agents in the south).

You are reputed to be the most popular English language blog for S. Korea, not so? As such, you publish your share of “derogatory” info about the North and its leaders.

Somewhere recently I read that the PRC is getting increasingly sophisticated at blocking unfavorable internet sites. Why wouldn’t they pass along any techniques learned to their North Korean friends?

I know nothing about web hosting, servers, etc, except what I read about from being on the internet. So — my hypothesis is vulnerable to technologically knowledgeable refutation.

However, it seems to me that if somebody wanted to take down your web site for a time, while “covering” their tracks, they’d try to “crash” a whole server rather than just trying to “block” you alone (something that could be easily traced back?)