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This is where I go for info on CCs and just saw this today. Sucks for them; it had a lot of good info.
http://www.cubancigarwebsite.com/
Dear Friends,
On 7th December, 2016 I was informed that a catastrophic failure at the data centre that hosts Cuban Cigar Website had led to a total loss of all data related to the site.
Many of you have asked how something like this could happen: it is as incomprehensible to me as it is to you. The word from the hosting company is that while they do take multiple redundant backups, because the failure was in the software than manages the servers rather than the server itself, those backups are corrupted and cannot be restored. I have harangued them about the criticalness of the situation at great length, and they insist that they have exhausted all possible avenues in trying to recover. If anyone is a North Carolina based attorney and wants to send a strongly worded letter for me then please get in touch, but I doubt it will result in a restoration of the data. As the old adage goes, data that is not backed up is data that you are prepared to lose. I should have taken local backups. I trusted a professional data storage company. This trust appears to have been misplaced.
The site you see at the moment is a flat file copy taken from a cache. I does not have a database behind it. Search and collection management functions have been remvoed. It is current as of about November 2016, and will not be updated.
http://www.cubancigarwebsite.com/
Dear Friends,
On 7th December, 2016 I was informed that a catastrophic failure at the data centre that hosts Cuban Cigar Website had led to a total loss of all data related to the site.
Many of you have asked how something like this could happen: it is as incomprehensible to me as it is to you. The word from the hosting company is that while they do take multiple redundant backups, because the failure was in the software than manages the servers rather than the server itself, those backups are corrupted and cannot be restored. I have harangued them about the criticalness of the situation at great length, and they insist that they have exhausted all possible avenues in trying to recover. If anyone is a North Carolina based attorney and wants to send a strongly worded letter for me then please get in touch, but I doubt it will result in a restoration of the data. As the old adage goes, data that is not backed up is data that you are prepared to lose. I should have taken local backups. I trusted a professional data storage company. This trust appears to have been misplaced.
The site you see at the moment is a flat file copy taken from a cache. I does not have a database behind it. Search and collection management functions have been remvoed. It is current as of about November 2016, and will not be updated.
