Popular Post CMiller Posted May 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2022 At this point I can firmly say the forums are back up and running. It has been a long past couple of months but we are excited to announce that all the content that was lost four months ago is finally back it its proper place. It has been a difficult past couple of months with dealing with a pieced together broken database import, and moving hundreds of gigabytes around. What is here? Everything is here, this forum is a recovery from January 4th, 2022. Any content posted from January 5th, 2022 to May 4th, 2022 does not exist on this forums. If you had gallery images, blog posts, stories posted, clubs joined - everything is here right where you left it. This version of the forums even has a lot of bug fixes from the previous forums where embedded images were broken or simply not displayed. I want to give a huge shoutout to MassiveMuscleMass in the Discord server for giving me a helping hand testing everything and helping bring this version of the forums back online. What is not here? Like I stated before, the only things not here is any content posted between January 5th to May 4th, 2022. Can I recover my content between January 5th and May 4th, 2022? Yes you can, however you must do it quick. Due to enormity of the costs it burdens to host hundreds of gigabytes of data we can not keep the old forums up and running for very long. From the publishing of this post, you have just over 7 weeks to go to the old forums and download any images or content that is not here. After July 1st I will destroy the server and the object storage server hosting the website and images. Where is the old forums? You can visit the old forums at old.musclegrowth.net. If you can't login try resetting your password. If you still need help see the next question below. What if I need help? We can offer limited support help through opening a support ticket. So how is this new infrastructure better than the old? We are doing it "right" this time. For all you tech nerds out there, the forums is now hosted on a virtual server that is backed up weekly, our database is now in a managed MySQL cluster with automated failure protection and daily backups to a replicated host, additional all images are now hosted in a content delivery network (CDN) which takes the burden of serving images from the virtual server and distributes it among a global infrastructure. All of this combined ensures we have multiple redundancies and no single point of failure. And if we were to go down it would only minutes to be back up and running with nearly zero data loss. In closing I want to thank all the wonderful beta testers on the forums for all that they did to help out, especially MassiveMuscleMass! I've learned a lot from what happened and I am committed to not letting it happen again. 27 18 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonboy Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 You and your team are simply amazing. Thank you very much @CMiller, @MassiveMuscleMass, and anyone else that worked hard to make all of this possible. Your work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated. 11 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffphoenix Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 I second that. Thank you for all your hard work in getting this back online. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austinevenson42 Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Thank you for saving the 5th Storiversary section and for all of your hard work over these past few months, I was finally able to see my old entry that I also lost! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equus Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 Big thanks to both @CMiller and @MassiveMuscleMass, great job guys! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassiveMuscleMass Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 I have said it already many times but once again, thank you @CMiller and the whole admin team for all your hard and continuous work of keeping this little corner of Internet alive and in best shape possible. We all appreciate your time you are putting into this. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 Thank you for all the efforts not only around the restoration, but generally thank you for running this site! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rx72000 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 Nice job. Glad everything worked out. Donation sent for everyones efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BecomeGod Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 This is awesome work done excellently, better even than some companies would do. If you ever need help with handling support tickets I can offer to be of assistance, I've got experience in ticket systems (especially Zendesk) and giving support through them. I'd love to help if help is needed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard83 Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Thanks for your hard work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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