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#27653 - 09/29/08 09:20 AM up/down/yoyo?
kevboy_telford kevboy_telford Champ Registered: 02/17/06 Posts: 165 Loc: Birmingham, UK	I see the site is having one or two issues - even saw a php error this morning. I assume everything in the last few weeks has been lost (if so does that mean we can replay the ryder cup?) everything going ok?
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#27654 - 09/29/08 09:27 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: kevboy_telford]
DocT DocT Master Registered: 11/02/06 Posts: 556 Loc: Torrance, CA	Wow, looks like we got reverted back to the beginning of the month. Even the course and product reviews have been lost as well. Hope the site is back to 100%. _________________________ Practice like you play. Play like you practice.
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#27655 - 09/29/08 11:07 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
DON DON Vance Registered: 05/04/05 Posts: 3431 Loc: Aurora, Colorado	I haven't talked to Chris since late last week, but I know he was going to have some site upgrades installed, and that the site would be down for a time while the upgrades were installed. Don't know what exactly was lost, but I'll try to contact Chris and find out exactly what was lost. It looks like a good 3 weeks worth of posts on the forum are gone. Don't know about reviews. _________________________ Putting is easy, getting the ball in the hole is hard. Later, Don.
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#27656 - 09/29/08 11:12 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DON]
DON DON Vance Registered: 05/04/05 Posts: 3431 Loc: Aurora, Colorado	I just looked at the last review, and it's dated Sept 1st. so it looks like a lot of reviews are missing, some of which I know were here before, as I looked at them and I posted half a dozen meself. Will contact Chris and ask if he has them somewhere and if they can be re-posted or not. Will let you know what I find out. I just entered a new review this morning, and I don't see it up on the site,Bummer. _________________________ Putting is easy, getting the ball in the hole is hard. Later, Don.
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#27657 - 09/29/08 02:27 PM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DON]
Admin Admin Master Registered: 04/30/05 Posts: 419 Loc: Moon Twp., PA USA	Ok... here's what I know so far.. my web host emailed me Sunday and said that they were having a server failure. Apparently the whole box crashed and all sites on it were down, including my other site, MusicGearReview.com. Because the hard drives failed (which may have explained some of the database issues we've been seeing as of late), the whole site had to be restored from backup. I guess we are fortunate that the backup they applied was from September 1. Unfortunately on my music site, the back up went all the way back to mid-June. I have a real issue with this host not backing up their servers regularly, which I will be diligently addressing with them. I don't know what I'm going to do about drawing the contest winners this month though. You are correct that any reviews submitted since the last backup are gone and not recoverable. _________________________ Chris Bereznay Golf Gear Review
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#27658 - 09/29/08 11:50 PM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: Admin]
kevboy_telford kevboy_telford Champ Registered: 02/17/06 Posts: 165 Loc: Birmingham, UK	shot in the dark thought any chance of using google to find out what is missing?? I assume that their bots have crawled the site (and cached most things) - I know it will be a MAJOR pain - but at least it is doable I hope you get a lot of free months host from them for the lack of backups - (hope your contract mentions back ups - if so - you can probably shoot them into next year!) - good luck with that one Kevin
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#27659 - 09/30/08 02:35 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: kevboy_telford]
Admin Admin Master Registered: 04/30/05 Posts: 419 Loc: Moon Twp., PA USA	Thanks Kev. Using google is not a bad idea. Let me look into that. Definitely would be able to use the cache to recreate some of the reviews and yes it would be a pain, but I do agree it's probably do-able. Just need to make the time at work here today, heh heh heh.. I better get something from them. Not only did I lose all of this content, but basically two days worth of advertising, etc. Although it's not much, it pays the bills and that's a bunch of crap if they don't offer something. _________________________ Chris Bereznay Golf Gear Review
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#27660 - 09/30/08 04:52 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: Admin]
DocT DocT Master Registered: 11/02/06 Posts: 556 Loc: Torrance, CA	I tried the google cache on my reviews for this month, and it only found 1 (out of 4 or 5 product reviews) dated 9/22 (excluding others from previous months) and none of my 2 course reviews. Just means there's more to catch up on for next month. _________________________ Practice like you play. Play like you practice.
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#27661 - 09/30/08 08:20 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
Admin Admin Master Registered: 04/30/05 Posts: 419 Loc: Moon Twp., PA USA	If you guys can respond with approximately when you submitted the review, and the product or course it was on, I can start looking them up as I have time. _________________________ Chris Bereznay Golf Gear Review
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#27662 - 09/30/08 09:39 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: Admin]
DocT DocT Master Registered: 11/02/06 Posts: 556 Loc: Torrance, CA	Wow, that would be a lot of work for you, Chris. I've done more digging around for my reviews. I think I found them all. Here are the links from google cache: Product Reviews 9/5/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:_CE...clnk&cd=1&gl=us 9/6/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:AX3...clnk&cd=1&gl=us 9/8/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:fxw...clnk&cd=4&gl=us 9/19/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:T-t...clnk&cd=2&gl=us 9/22/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:L_z...clnk&cd=2&gl=us Course Reviews 9/4/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:Sw-...clnk&cd=1&gl=us 9/20/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:oF7...clnk&cd=1&gl=us I used the keywords "review by DocT" (including the quotes) in the google search bar. Then I used "doct review golfgearreview" and other similar keywords. It's funny because I also found links to my reviews on other sites as well. _________________________ Practice like you play. Play like you practice.
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#27663 - 09/30/08 09:49 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
DocT DocT Master Registered: 11/02/06 Posts: 556 Loc: Torrance, CA	For SRushing (and similar name keywords) product reviews, I've only managed to find the following: 9/11/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:ink...clnk&cd=2&gl=us 9/21/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:iUF...clnk&cd=1&gl=us This is tougher than I thought. $\:\($ _________________________ Practice like you play. Play like you practice.
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#27664 - 09/30/08 09:58 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
Aimee Aimee Palmer Registered: 06/27/05 Posts: 1241 Loc: NJ	I tried google for a review I did of a golf glove, but didn't find it. Oh well. In all fairness, maybe the drawing should be cancelled this month since so much was lost. _________________________ Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse
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#27665 - 09/30/08 10:07 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: Aimee]
DocT DocT Master Registered: 11/02/06 Posts: 556 Loc: Torrance, CA	Aimee, I found it: 9/23/2008 http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:rVC...clnk&cd=2&gl=us _________________________ Practice like you play. Play like you practice.
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#27666 - 09/30/08 10:08 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
DocT DocT Master Registered: 11/02/06 Posts: 556 Loc: Torrance, CA	I agree with aimee on postponing the contest to make it all fair for everyone. _________________________ Practice like you play. Play like you practice.
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#27667 - 09/30/08 10:36 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
kevboy_telford kevboy_telford Champ Registered: 02/17/06 Posts: 165 Loc: Birmingham, UK	I agree - postpone to next month. I doubt we will find them all I can only find 20 from the last month http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&h...nG=Search&meta=
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#27668 - 09/30/08 12:05 PM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: kevboy_telford]
srushing srushing Hogan Registered: 10/28/06 Posts: 1727 Loc: North Carolina	Man, that sucks Chris with the hosting company. I had a similar experience with a site I had a company host for a professional society and they lost an entire election that was done via the website. I had no idea (at the time) that they did NOT make very frequent backups. I would definately stay on them for restitution. And I'd definately see if you have anything on what their policy was supposed to be for backups and do you have any legal recourse if they didn't sustain that. That really sucks. I hope I'm not using them for any of my hosting projects. You might want to start requesting notifications when the backups complete and/or doing you own backups yourself. I agree let's postpone the sept drawing and work on getting content back on the site. I went to the Internet Archive (where all websites get archived eventually...) and they didn't have anything on the site any more recent that like April of this year so no help there. I can repost the product and course reviews I did this month, not a big deal. But I'm glad we're back online again...sniff snif...I missed you guys!!!!! _________________________ The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
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#27671 - 10/01/08 03:39 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: srushing]
Admin Admin Master Registered: 04/30/05 Posts: 419 Loc: Moon Twp., PA USA	Thanks everyone for checking. Hopefully we will have a good stretch without any problems. This has really been the first time in years we've had this type of problem, so I'm not ready to abandon the host yet, just want to make sure procedures are in place to address it for the future. I would like to hear from Laney and Don as well before post-poning the contest, but I also think it's a good idea. _________________________ Chris Bereznay Golf Gear Review
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#27672 - 10/01/08 08:32 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
DON DON Vance Registered: 05/04/05 Posts: 3431 Loc: Aurora, Colorado	I hate to say this, especially since I posted 6 product reviews and 1 course review. But I think the best thing to do might be for forget about September winners, and just have everyone re-post their reviews. I'm not happy with the idea of having to submit all new reviews, but it might be the only way to find all of them. What do the rest of you think? Can we all live without a winner for last month, and just re-post all new reviews for October? I sure don't remember what days I posted my reviews, not even sure I can remember what every review was on. Well, maybe I can figure it out if I think about it, but that's a lot to ask of me at my age. _________________________ Putting is easy, getting the ball in the hole is hard. Later, Don.
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#27673 - 10/01/08 08:46 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DON]
laney laney Niklaus Registered: 08/13/06 Posts: 1025 Loc: houston, tx	Hello to all, Definitely postpone or cancel so that reviews can be resubmitted. Perhaps two winners in October?
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#27674 - 10/01/08 03:10 PM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: laney]
Admin Admin Master Registered: 04/30/05 Posts: 419 Loc: Moon Twp., PA USA	I think having two winners in October is only fair. So two winners for gear reviews and two winners for course reviews. Thanks everyone for weighing in. I really apologize for the inconvenience. _________________________ Chris Bereznay Golf Gear Review
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#27676 - 10/02/08 04:43 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: Admin]
DocT DocT Master Registered: 11/02/06 Posts: 556 Loc: Torrance, CA	Chris, thanks for just having a contest for us. _________________________ Practice like you play. Play like you practice.
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#27678 - 10/02/08 06:53 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DocT]
DON DON Vance Registered: 05/04/05 Posts: 3431 Loc: Aurora, Colorado	Okay everyone, time to re- submit all those reviews from September and see if you can win one of the 4 prizes for October. I'll be making a list in my mind of what reviews I turned in last month, and get back to typing in the data for this month. Let's get those review back up online and have some fun. If I can remember what reviews I submitted, I'm sure you younger members can remember your reviews as well. Thank you Chris, for getting the site fixed and the new updates added. You're not too bad for a bold guy. _________________________ Putting is easy, getting the ball in the hole is hard. Later, Don.
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#27686 - 10/02/08 02:28 PM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: DON]
srushing srushing Hogan Registered: 10/28/06 Posts: 1727 Loc: North Carolina	Hey, so question...can/could someone win all 4? I mean the odds are against you but Chris, if you have someone win one drawing, are they eligible to win again in the same month in teh other drawing(s)? I do not have a problem with it if they do just curious how you do it. _________________________ The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
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#27694 - 10/02/08 09:13 PM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: srushing]
kevboy_telford kevboy_telford Champ Registered: 02/17/06 Posts: 165 Loc: Birmingham, UK	I would prefer it , if multiple people could win (means everybody has a chance)
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#27698 - 10/03/08 08:58 AM Re: up/down/yoyo? [Re: kevboy_telford]
srushing srushing Hogan Registered: 10/28/06 Posts: 1727 Loc: North Carolina	U mean everyone has a chance to win 4 times or once you've won, the rest of the crew is left to win the next? I like spreading the wealth around too, but don't care either way. _________________________ The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
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