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Announcement An Explanation

supertolerator

Staff Member
Administrator
Hello everyone! I know many of you are probably confused with what has been going on these past two and a half weeks, and why the site has been offline for that long. I'll get right into that.

Essentially, about two weeks ago, the datacenter in which the site was being hosted in, had planned for some scheduled maintenance. After that had completed, the server was not yet back up, and after countless attempts of contacting the IT guys, I was told that the drive in the server had failed. Unfortunately, they did not want to attempt to recover the data. Luckily, I had a semi-recent backup that was about a month old. Sadly, there was no backup of the home page, but that's alright, we can get that back online later. What matters most, is that all of you can post and enjoy the site once again.

The reason why it took so long for the site to get back online, was that I had learned that the drive had failed approximately three days after it went offline for the first time. After that, it was a waiting game for a company with terrible support, to try to either recover the data or install a new drive. This was taking ages, and I was fed up with it. We switched to a different host, and this one is of higher quality, so we should not *fingers crossed* experience something like this again.

I, as well as @purplepittabread88 apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused, and for the fact that the site was offline for three of the four preseason games.

We are working hard to get everything restored back to its original state, and hope that you will all understand.

Something that would be of great help- if anyone experiences any kind of bugs while browsing the site, please report them to the feedback section, so that we can take care of them right away.

Thank you all so much for understanding, we'll keep you updated.

Go ravens!
 

JO_75

Hall of Famer
At least we got this site back before the regular started. Sucks we lost about 2 months worth of data. I kept trying everything, different browsers on my phone, my computer, and on my new computer when I finally hooked it up.
 

purplepittabread88

Staff Member
Administrator
At least we got this site back before the regular started. Sucks we lost about 2 months worth of data. I kept trying everything, different browsers on my phone, my computer, and on my new computer when I finally hooked it up.
Yea we should be set by now and I’m really sorry we were doing everything we could to get it up. At first it looked liked everything to October would be lost but Atleast we didn’t get completely fucked by those guys. Losing offseason speculation (for the most part) is Atleast better than losing the game threads and the draft :/ sorry man
 

Militant X 1

Ravens Ring of Honor
I was wondering what was going on. Thanks!
 

cobrajet

Hall of Famer
You can get your avatar back for less than the cost of a bag of almond M&Ms!

If you want to hear something really funny, I was actually starting to wonder to myself if purpleflock was up and running the whole time but for some reason my computer was just screwing with me....lol. My Steelers wife calls this site “purple power” and she actually noticed my symptoms of withdraw these last couple of weeks.[/QUOTE]
 
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Jacquouille

Ravens Ring of Honor
Supporter
Figure this is the right time to thank you guys for all the effort you put in to let us lazy ass punk bitch all day about Za'Darius Smith.

Seriously though, you da MVP, great job guys!
 
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