As a lot of you observed, AnandTech has spent a number of hours offline right this moment. We’re nonetheless in restoration mode in the intervening time (as I write this, the location has been restored to a replica from November 25th), however now that our main restoration efforts are accomplished, I wished to give you guys a quick replace on the standing of AnandTech.
At round 13:00 UTC (5am PT) right this moment, the on-site cloud storage for AnandTech’s internet hosting supplier turned corrupted. In consequence, AnandTech (and another websites) had been introduced offline. As a result of nature of the corruption and the necessity to start restoration efforts ASAP, we opted to revive the location from an off-site chilly storage backup, slightly than trusting the questionable on-site storage.
That is the primary time we’ve ever needed to execute our off-site knowledge restoration plan earlier than. And whereas it meant AT took a bit longer to revive than could be supreme, 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 few days. Articles shall be again, however we’ve doubtless misplaced any feedback and consumer account registrations/updates made since noon Friday. Sorry about that! And thanks for bearing with us throughout right this moment’s outage.
