https://skelmis.co.nz/tags/suggestions-bot/ Recent content in Suggestions Bot on Skelmis Hugo en Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/suggestions-server-december-outage/ Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://skelmis.co.nz/posts/suggestions-server-december-outage/ TLDR; We had moved our database onto the same machine as our software a few months earlier, removing all replication in the process and never re-configuring it. Then our server proceeded to brick itself and our hosting provider was unsure if it could be recovered. It was in the end, but that’s how we nearly lost 1.95 million database records and ruined Christmas. And yes, you bet we have off-site backups again.