AND BETTER THAN EVER.

If you are one of our dedicated followers, AsiaticFreight.com, along with all the other websites were ‘down’ for a period of almost 3 weeks. This caused quite a big loss in terms of potential clients and reputation amongst the shipping community.

What in fact happened, is a very simple task that led to a major server meltdown.

3 weeks ago, our servers are running a routine maintenance by our web-hosting staff. In the midst of the maintenance and backups, the server for some unknown reason, crashed halfway, whilst connected to the backup servers.

This led to a multi-crashing Hard Disk scenario. Both hard disks on the backup server and the current running servers have died, and attempts to restore the data is futile.

Temporary servers are set up, but at the moment, the data has still not been backed up. This all occured while the entire Barracuda Technologies team is on a company holiday trip. Whilst we managed to attempt restoration over the next few days, most data has been lost.

Finally, since the past week, most sites and features have already been restored. Bonoko.com has successfully restored most of its posts, Barracuda.com.my is now restored and functional, other sites like shippingfrommalaysia.com and most importantly, AsiaticFreight.com, has been cleaned up and restored to previous databases.

There are still some minor issues to be fixed, but till then, everything is now back in order. WE ARE BACK, and BUSINESS AS USUAL!

Thanks to this episode, we have learnt a great deal of website management, and do not wish for this to be repeated in the future. It’s all about gaining experience!

Till then,

BonoKo!