The last update I got from iFastNet is that they are currently restoring the data and it is expected to take another 2 days.
Because there is TON of data to be restored, all from a crashed storage system.
I wouldn’t say that. From what I get from their reports, it’s just another case of how simple things become hard at scale.
You have to remember that the free hosting platform runs on clusters of storage systems interconnected to and from various parts, all hosting ridiculous numbers of sites. Add to that the new hardware and updated operating systems all probably working slightly differently that what they have experience with
I’m getting drip-fed details and I’m not sure what I can share of those, but I can tell that their approach seems sensible to me. Most of what they are doing is firing off a series of commands that should fix this and waiting for days to see results due to the scale.
Poor preparation and testing probably has something to do with it, but most of this is just bad luck in spite of good effort.