Geocaching.com Down?

[cheezehead]

But just think…..what if it ALL GONE! Everything…..gone……….

[Mathman]

I guess that would be a good out for me. I have seen many places and had fun but I would say that I am done.

[cacheseekers]

@cheezehead wrote:

But just think…..what if it ALL GONE! Everything…..gone……….

It’d make me very sad that at this point they didn’t have an off site backup. 🙁

[sandlanders]

Question: If nothing gets resolved tonight, will we all wake up tomorrow to find out that it is like Christmas morning, or will it be as if the sun didn’t rise?

[Averith]

I was just wondering does the WGA website have an off site back up??? If not, perhaps would be something to seriously consider.

[cheezehead]

@sandlanders wrote:

Question: If nothing gets resolved tonight, will we all wake up tomorrow to find out that it is like Christmas morning, or will it be as if the sun didn’t rise?

Dawn of the living dead comes to mind.

[brainandbraun]

@Averith wrote:

I was just wondering does the WGA website have an off site back up??? If not, perhaps would be something to seriously consider.

According to the CEO, they cannot afford 2 datacenters. So, there is no backup. 😯 We have 52 active caches and never thought about maintaining paper backups. Ouch…

[cheezehead]

I have almost 100 hides. No back up what so ever.

[furfool]

@cheezehead wrote:

But just think…..what if it ALL GONE! Everything…..gone……….

It would mean that you were never at any of those places that you discovered because of caching.

[brainandbraun]

Okay, Christmas morning is better. At least you know it’s coming; it’s just a matter of waiting. This isn’t the same. We have no idea what will be waiting for us once the servers go up. yuck… 😡

[cheezehead]

@furfool wrote:

@cheezehead wrote:

But just think…..what if it ALL GONE! Everything…..gone……….

It would mean that you were never at any of those places that you discovered because of caching.

Ya need a web site to tell ya that? What about the memories?

[cacheseekers]

@brainandbraun wrote:

@Averith wrote:

I was just wondering does the WGA website have an off site back up??? If not, perhaps would be something to seriously consider.

According to the CEO, they cannot afford 2 datacenters. So, there is no backup. 😯 We have 52 active caches and never thought about maintaining paper backups. Ouch…

You don’t need multiple data centers for backups. They could just be backing it up to disk/tape or another server maybe at an employees home. 😛

The biggest cost would be to have multiple active/active sites so there would hardly be any downtime noticed by customers. Remote live synchronization isn’t cheap but it’s definitely doable. Knowing the pricing I have seen I really can’t see how they can’t afford to do it. They just need someone to research data centers and transit providers to get the best rates. 🙂 I’m sure my current employer would cut them a good deal 😉

[Averith]

@brainandbraun wrote:

@Averith wrote:

I was just wondering does the WGA website have an off site back up??? If not, perhaps would be something to seriously consider.

According to the CEO, they cannot afford 2 datacenters. So, there is no backup. 😯 We have 52 active caches and never thought about maintaining paper backups. Ouch…

I’m glad I thought ahead and downloaded all of the caches we own and have them backed up on my Palm TX, also have all the caches we have found backed up on it as well.

[AuntieNae]

WGA does have a backup server in a separate location. Jeremy can explain the techie details.

[furfool]

@cheezehead wrote:

@furfool wrote:

@cheezehead wrote:

But just think…..what if it ALL GONE! Everything…..gone……….

It would mean that you were never at any of those places that you discovered because of caching.

Ya need a web site to tell ya that? What about the memories?

You wouldn’t have those memories, because caching would not have existed to bring you to those places.

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