LiewCF.com is BACK!

Filed in: Site News — May 9th, 2006

Dear all, I am sorry for the downtime for in the past few days. Now, I am happy to announce that LiewCF.com is back and continues to serve you the latest tech news, money making tips, ticks, and etc!

What happened?

The web server was down at Saturday, May 6, 2006, because the hard disk crashed. That’s a VERY rare case, yet it happened.
All the websites hosted on the server, including LiewCF.com was not accessible.
Name server down and then, this domain name was directed to the incorrect site, a website in Arabic(anyone read Arabic?).

The arabic website
In order to reduce confusion, I redirected the domain name to LiewCF.wordpress.com, my idle blog on WordPress.com, and blogged about this issue there.
The server side managed to restore the backup copy of LiewCF.com
I updated this domain name to remove URL redirect, but the name server update took much longer time than I had expected
After more than 48 hours, the domain name is finally resolved. LiewCF.com is back!

Hacked?

No, I don’t think so. It was a serious hardware failure, 3 out of the 4 server’s hard disks were corrupted. Well, anything can happen. The server side did a good job to restore all the files in a short time.

Thank you

Thank you for your support in the past few days. Here are several posts that wrote about LiewCF.com during the down time.

Not to forget also, thanks for your comments[liewcf.wordpress.com] and emails.

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gilachess

Funny thing happened to my friend too. His website went down at about the same time as LiewCF.

Reason: Hard disk crash.

Coincidence! My friend's website is hosted on hive.com.my - different server from LiewCF.

Anyway, I'd like to commend Liew for going up so fast after a fatal hard disk crash. You must have a good back up system Liew.

That reminds me. I have not even backed up my DB and contents for ALL my website since last year!! Better do it tonight...

surfnux

Welcome back.

Leow

That doesn't sound like disk crash.
IMHO, it's more like the site got hacked.

gilachess

Yes. Now I can sleep at night :)

Home Tuition Malaysia

Yeah Liew...welcome back.

I monitored your site from 2am till 5am yesterday but you still gone.

But....finally......Liewcf.com is back......... :)

Sunny Tan

Hi Liew,

pheww....nice so hear you back online again..

Patrick

Its pain when your blog is down and even pain if all your blog post gone. There is some facing this situation. Luckily, thanks for your last time advice. I backup my database using cron. And all my post managed to be recovered :)

LcF

Sorry about the wrong date, it has been corrected. You see, I miss Mother's Day too much! :P
@A.H: thanks. No wonder ppl suspect the website was hacked.

hafreze

haha..at last u come back..really miss ur blog..

A.H

I read Arabic Liew, it was redirecting to an university website with a lot of politics there =)

A.H

mypapit

“The web server was down at Saturday, May 13, 2006, due to hard disk crashed. That’s a VERY rare case, yet it happened. ”

You posted a future date...

jimmy

Hi L,

Great to see you coming back, yea! :-)

Regards,

jimmy.

Pinvader

finally LiewCF.com is back!

Doraemon

glad that your site is coming back.

"The web server was down at Saturday, May 13, 2006, due to hard disk crashed. That’s a VERY rare case, yet it happened. "

13 May ?? what date is it today?