Speculation: 2024-2025 General Lightning Discussion III: We’re back! Kind of.

  • We sincerely apologize for the extended downtime. Our hosting provider, XenForo Cloud, encountered a major issue with their backup system, which unfortunately resulted in the loss of some critical data from the past year.

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I go back to NFSnet (pre internet as you know it, when Gopher and Archie were the search tools ) and we weren't that irresponsible as this. I also helped build the web severs, global content distribution, network architecture , and support for the Atlanta, Nagano, and Sydney Olympics web sites, plus many major sporting events, where reliability requirements 99.995% which we met. If we could do it i by 2000, when the internet was 5 years old, you would think things would be better 25 years later.

I mean this site, it’s always had kinks. Used to completely go down during the trade deadline and the draft was a mess
 
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