What's up at welding web?

[newbury]

A little off topic but

<snip>For DOT in an earthquake region, disaster recovery including restoring communication and project documents - in a time of crisis - is critically important to get things working again. Running all those backups for years seems pointless ... until you need to rebuild all your records from your backup.

And part of that is knowing how to check and restore the backup.
The lab where I worked for the Army didn't routinely backup the email system, that was "handled" by another lab in Mississippi. For a period there we had several instances of peoples computers crashing and they would lose a lot of important emails they had saved to their local system. We'd contact the "backup lab" only to find out that -
Yes, they backed it up
But they never checked the backups and didn't know how to restore.
I think someone got reassigned.

 

[MinnesotaDaveChalmers]

Good to hear Dave, I guess I never realized how much I logged onto weldingweb for info. or just to see what was happening..

Pete

I used it often too.
Many times it was faster to find info or pictures for class there since I knew what threads they were in or which member posted it.

 

[California]

Good to hear Dave, I guess I never realized how much I logged onto weldingweb for info. or just to see what was happening.

Me too. My welding is mainly farm repairs, and fabrication of implements I need. Reading WW is the closest I'll ever get to working next to a pro who answers my 'how do I do this' questions. Following the various threads and going to links provided, is very helpful and I miss it.

Plus its simply good entertainment to see the breadth of viewpoints on there, like here at TBN.

 

[California]

A week now.

Here's an article saying some of the broad multimedia companies like Penton - or the conglomerate that owns it - are slimming down activities that are less profitable than they had hoped. I hope that isn't the case here.

A google search on 'Penton Ownership' brings up a complex picture. I didn't dig into it. (and Penton owns Welding Web). Vox appears to be a similar multimedia conglomerate.

Layoffs at Vox

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

WW has been for sale in the past, but pretty sure it isn't anything like this on the most recent issue. I think they are still taking Everlast's ad money.

 

[Evan03]

I just recently found welding web and already i feel lost with out.
Duane and a few other members are incredible. Im literaly lost trouble shooting welding systems

 

[MinnesotaDaveChalmers]

**** New update ****

THIS JUST IN FROM FIX IT CENTRAL IN NEW YORK..

We have not forgotten about you. The IT team is literally piecing our sites back together one by one, and byte by byte, from the failed SAN array. It’s obviously a catastrophic issue.

 

[ishiboo]

A perfect case of why an intelligent backup plan needs to be implemented and followed. The issues here basically say things were not done correctly for a production site. At all.

Hope they get stuff fixed ASAP though!

 

[California]

Fire everyone from the VP-Technology on down. This failure is like those recent Navy ship crashes.

An illustration that their salaries were money thrown away, useless.


Added: Dave, thanks for that update. It's good to hear the site will be back up eventually and not shut down forever.

 

[CAVEMANN]

I always lived by the theory that if you only have one backup then it's not backed up.