Here is the deal:
We realise the issues with the forum - topics are missing their posts and profile histories are missing/ corrupted/ out to lunch.
You can use the forum freely for new posts, as it's working fine for that.
The search is also corrupted. There's always Google SiteSearch.
Tom1 (not me, other more database based Tom) is working on restoring all the data fully. Yes we do back up on a very regular basis. But a 'broken' database table requires work on it, and it's a HUGE table. Then it will have to be merged with all the posts that have been happening post crash. And probably a whole load of other things that mere mortals, including myself, never consider.
Rest assured we're doing our best to resume normal service as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Every now and then things break. In this case the database table holding all the forum posts broke. Tom1 is fixing it.
Singletrack is an incredibly popular website, in the past 2 years there have been over 2.2 million posts with nearing 3000 posts per day.
We have just bought a new, more powerful, server which we will add to the setup. Therefore data load will be spread across more servers. This will take some time, but it is currently in progress.
The uptime of singletrackworld is actually very, very good. In fact, in the last two years, we have had less downtime than Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook.
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P.S.
Earlier comparisons to Facebook et al was said somewhat 'Superbe! Magnifique!' (with his tongue in his cheek). What I was trying to highlight was the fact that whoever you are, your website will experience some downtime at some points in its existence. While STW does not compare to the aforementioned traffic levels, in comparison to the average website it is huge traffic.
