RASC Hamilton - Members Only Website and Forum Server outage

[jw devonshire]

Hi everyone,

On the morning of Saturday, August 28, the company that hosts the server
for all our services (website,Forum, mailing lists) had an attack on its
infrastructure, causing serious outages and leaving us offline for the last
few days.  They have spent (and as of the morning of August 31 are still
working on it), the entire time restoring their hosting servers.

Our information came back online late Monday evening. We are more fortunate
than most, as some companies and organizations will need to recreate their
data from scratch.  It appears that our backup was from around August 27,so
any posts over the last 3 or 4 days will have been lost.

Their web hosting team has been keeping us up to date on the problems
throughout, and provided a breakdown of what happened (
https://whc.ca/blog/major-incident-what-happened), so let’s give them
credit for that.

Anyway, that is why everything has been down, but we are now back up and
running. Thank you for your patience!

Clear skies.

John Devonshire
Webmaster
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