PORTLAND, Maine — USA Internet, a Web hosting company with offices in Portland and Bangor, is in the process of restoring a server that crashed late Monday morning, causing 27 of its hosted websites to go offline.
“It failed hard and they had to replace it,” Dale Summers, a data center technician in Bangor, said of the server in Portland.
Summers said all of the websites are backed up on another server, and he is guessing the sites will go back online sometime tomorrow morning when the server is restored. But, the technician added, it’s hard to tell when exactly the new server will be ready.
“We don’t do a whole lot of Web hosting,” Summers said. “It’s hard for a small outfit to compete with Google.”
Dana Moos, an innkeeper at the Pomegranate Inn in Portland, said on Twitter that the inn’s website has been down for more than 24 hours. She was not available for further comment Tuesday afternoon.
“USA Internet, a Web hosting company with offices in Portland and Bangor…”
““We don’t do a whole lot of Web hosting,””
Ummm…..wat?
EDIT: and if you don’t do a lot of webhosting, then it would be easier to set up a fail-over webserver…since you don’t have to replicate a lot of sites.
I’ve set some up with automatic failover to the redundant server when hardware fails. There’s not a good market for it. People are gamblers.
That they are. I noticed it takes someone losing all their stuff before they think of better ways to protect it.
Seriously though, if you’re selling a hosting solution to people…you (and I dont mean YOU) should probably have a good disaster-recovery plan in place.
27 websites, probably an average of about 500MB or less per site. I don’t see how having a backup of less than 20GB worth of site data would be all that hard. And I’m willing to bet Dale Summers is data technician, tech support, sales and everything else at Prexar.
“We don’t do a whole lot of Web hosting,” Summers said. “It’s hard for a small outfit to compete with Google.”
Google isn’t a web host. Sounds more like someone just doesn’t know a lot about web hosting.