Tabulas was down last night; the server that Tabulas' database is located on got hacked (not through Tabulas, but through another account that was on the server).

I've written a a more technical post on my personal Tabulas.

I'm *really* sorry about this downtime - I hate downtime with a passion, and I was really stressed out last night while trying to get the service back up. Right now, I'm exhausted, but I will be doing a post-mortem examination of how I can prevent this type of outage in the future.

Again, my apologies.

Note the service may be slightly slow while I reconfigure the server to be a bit faster. Let me know if you're having any critical errors (like database errors and such).

Thanks for your understanding.

-Roy

Posted by tabulas on March 11, 2006 at 07:04 AM in General News | 17 Comments

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Comment posted on March 13th, 2006 at 06:12 AM
Thank you so much. Your service is the best. Believe me.
Comment posted on March 12th, 2006 at 10:55 PM
great job roy. don't worry, we still love you and tabulas. thanks. ^_^
Comment posted on March 12th, 2006 at 01:43 PM
=) You are running a service much much better than others. Tabulas is the best. We thank YOU.
Comment posted on March 12th, 2006 at 07:57 AM
what happened roy? my comment replies don't go to my email anymore. i'm sorry i need to bother you again
Comment posted on March 12th, 2006 at 06:07 AM
Thanks for getting it to work again =)
Comment posted on March 12th, 2006 at 05:52 AM
Hey take it easy man. It happens, no need to get so worked up! Again, you've done everything in your power to bring back the site and it was as if the downtime never happened. Three cheers for Roy everybody!
Comment posted on March 12th, 2006 at 12:51 AM
Shit happens man... ;)
...good job on putting us up back again.
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 10:57 PM
thanks for the tabulas roy!!

teetin (guest)

Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 09:37 PM
go roy! :approve:
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 04:51 PM
Thanks Roy. I know what it's like to be a "one trick pony" - having to do everything... I think most people here appreciate that! :)
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 04:48 PM
don't worry about it! if that DOES ever happen again, then you should worry! haha..j/k but really..if that does ever happen again just don't stress about it..take your time!
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 04:27 PM
Don't stress. I doubt any of us have anything *that* important to say.

I'd rather wait through tabulas outages than blog elsewhere. (Really. I tried LJ because everyone else was, but I came back.)
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 04:13 PM
You shouldn't apologize. :0 If anything we should be feeling sorry for you for having to go through all that trouble to fix Tabulas. >.
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 03:20 PM
I agree with last30 and miniangel, this kind of thing is TOTALLY not your fault at all, you have, in my opinion, the *best* blogging service ever, and outage or no, I still
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 02:06 PM
Of course, it wasn't your fault. Stuff happens, you know how it works. I think you provide a great service. Don't stress.
Catherine
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 01:10 PM
The downtime wasn't your fault, it was whomever or whatever hacked the server.

Don't know if you know but all the radio blogs aren't working. The songs still show as uploaded in the control panel but the actual radio blogs don't work at all.

Take your time to fix it though, it's not a huge deal or anything. Hope you get a chance to get some sleep.
Comment posted on March 11th, 2006 at 01:19 PM
should be fixed now