The Bradley Stoke Examiner would like to apologise for the recent downtime - a problem with our website hosting company was to blame.
On Monday evening, a hard drive failed in our server and unfortunately it could not be repaired meaning the whole website went offline.
We switched to backup servers which carried a message saying there was a technical issue.
Unfortunately the data centre involved did not make a whole site backup which meant we had to rely on several old backups of the site.
Any stories and comments posted since last Thursday have been lost and you might notice a few pictures from the past month missing.
We are working to restore the photos and forums sections which we hope will be back before the end of the week.
Once again, we’re very sorry for the outage and hope that you will continue to visit Bradley Stoke’s number one news website.
Wednesday update: Webcam, forum and photos still offline. We’re hoping to restore the forum this evening.
Wednesday evening update: The forum is now back up-and-running …
Wednesday evening update two: The webcam is also back …
Thursday: Photos are back which means the whole site is now available!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Andy // Apr 30, 2008 at 8:33 am
So are you still enthusiastically recommending HostGator?
2 Chris (editor) // Apr 30, 2008 at 9:00 am
HostGator are the guys that are now hosting our site - previous hosts let us down. It’s a long story which has caused my hair to go grey.
3 NewsJunkie // Apr 30, 2008 at 11:12 am
So glad you’re back online, I was having to rely on the journal for my daily fix of local news. Its rubbish and the editor always seems to be angry!
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