Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #15 on: June 17, 2020, 05:12:37 AM » Author: dor123
The forum of ATL has been lost because of a server crash.
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Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.

I only working with the international date format (dd.mm.yyyy).

I lives in Israel, which is a 220-240V, 50hz country.

	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #16 on: June 17, 2020, 06:23:55 AM » Author: Rommie
Quote from: dor123 on June 17, 2020, 05:12:37 AM The forum of ATL has been lost because of a server crash. Then they should have had backups. What sort of website owner doesn't keep a backup of the system
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #18 on: June 17, 2020, 09:49:07 AM » Author: Rommie
So keep a  copy on your own system. That's what I did when I ran a website. It got backed up to a local drive every time I made a change. Which is what everyone should do with any computer really. The computers we use here get backed up to a local network drive every night with whatever has changed, then once every so often (about a week or two depending on how much has changed) it does a full backup of the entire drive. I remember many years ago running a bulletin board (pre-internet). Something (sadly, I believe it was a cargo plane that hit some high voltage overhead lines) caused the power to fail over quite a large area. This of course happened at 4am just as the system was in the middle of updating some of its configuration files. Now as anyone with any experience of this sort of thing knows, computers do NOT like power being removed from them unexpectedly at the best of times, least of all when they're doing system updates The system was down for three days while I rebuilt the config from scratch and at least 75% of the message board content was lost. That day, I learnt the hard way that anyone who doesn't back up is an idiot and deserves to lose their stuff, it's as simple as that. Once I had things up and running again, I went out and bought an uninterruptible power supply..! I also started a daily backup routine. Also, for critical system files, in addition to the above, copy them to an online service such as Dropbox.
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #20 on: June 17, 2020, 10:24:46 AM » Author: Rommie
Back in the day I used MS FrontPage. Not the best these days but it did the job. You built up the entire site offline and then uploaded it with FTP. Don't know how you'd do it now, it's been a long time.
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #22 on: June 17, 2020, 10:37:52 AM » Author: Rommie
I don't honestly remember, I just made changes on the local copy and uploaded them. I rarely if ever worked on the 'live' system. If you change things locally and test them, it doesn''t break the live copy. Alternatively if you do mess with things live and it doesn't work, you still have the undamaged local copy you can upload to fix it. You might lose a bit of data depending on how long ago you backed up, but it's better than having to rebuild the entire site from scratch..!
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #23 on: June 17, 2020, 12:11:52 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: Binarix128 There was members at ATL? I wonder what the existing members did to register in the site. At one time you could just register (then be approved by an admin) The site refuses to load on my old main computer, but I tried on a different one & it works there...can even still log on, so yep ATL is still around!
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #26 on: June 17, 2020, 05:08:41 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
As requested, here's a gallery screenshot from ATL (in this case showing last comments). The forum part was indeed lost in the site crash (and not re-setup). Parts of the gallery were saved though. @Danny: If I remember correctly you're correct in - atleast after the crash - that  the admins had to setup/restore your account manually?
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #27 on: June 17, 2020, 05:11:40 PM » Author: Lightingguy1994
ATL doesn't sound like much fun. Have a name picked for you, cant share your own content and must cater to every whim of admins. Passsss
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #28 on: June 17, 2020, 05:14:56 PM » Author: Rommie
Well looking at that screenshot and seeing a certain name who's on there, I'm glad I'm not.
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	Re: GOL ATL ???? « Reply #29 on: June 17, 2020, 05:18:24 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
@Lightingguy1994: I was able to pick a username (i think) on ATL - as I have the same one (or maybe I just asked if I could have it..I don't remember now.) Also .LOL. @ your signature image..
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