Well, just like the site AllThingsmoto.com, Cafe Husky site is also toast.
http://www.cafehusky.com/account/alerts
http://www.cafehusky.com/account/alerts
I truly hope that can't happen with this forum.
Another thing to mention is that this site is quite old school where the web server is running at my home. It is a linux box running apache webserver and mysql database. We pay for internet connection with static IP address versus hosting/vps fees.
I have thought about moving it off - but I had trouble with one site off site where it had too much activity and slowed down a shared machine - they shut me down.
Searching and web crawlers will slow down a site - this one is pretty fast even though the machine is a little old. We have the entire CPU and entire memory to ourselves...
I talked to my friend Les and he told me that cafehusky owner dean died a few years back and then someone was able to get into his hosting company to keep it going for a while. Sounds like they had it limping along until it finally died....
jeff
Does mysql have a transaction log that can have a script run against it for db transactions in a specified date range? That way most transactions can be re-applied from the db backup as long as the transaction log dumps are also saved. A LONG time ago we used to rebuild Sybase from a db backup and re-apply transactions for our systems. We had storage limitations in the old days that necessitated that process. I don't know if RDBs are like that these days!
Yes. I'm old...