Business Security Information

Well it has been an eventful week and I wanted to apologize to our readers for the issues we have had with the website this week.  The first issue was on Monday with the web server, run by the hosting company we use, having to be taken down due to an emergency with the server’s file system.  This resulted in the site being down for a number of hours and then when we got back on-line we found out that the database was corrupted and needed to be repaired.  So all of this resulted in our website being down for almost half a day.  Then on Wednesday the web hosting company we use had to take the server down, for a little over an hour, to make some adjustments to the server.  I think the adjustments to the server were related to Monday’s file system incident.  Overall, this resulted in us being off-line for a number of hours this week.

From a security perspective this type of incident reminds you to have good backups and to make sure that you test those backups before you really need them.  The reason I say this is that our backups were a few days old.  If we could not have repaired the database we would have had to use the database backup, which would have required use to re-post some of the newer articles that were not part of the older backup.  It all worked out and hopefully we won’t experience any more issues like this anytime soon.

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