wh@t is back.

First, the important news:

We're back!

Secondly, you guys deserve an explanation of exactly what went down in the last few days, there's no easy way to give bad news.

There was a database crash on our main server which corrupted all of our data. The good news is, we have managed to recover almost all of the database. As fate would have it however, the tables that we were unable to recover included those for torrents, and those for users. This, of course, is where our backup solution would come into play. Due to the size of our database, and the importance of uptime, some conventional methods of backing up are unavailable to us, and we opted for a method that gave you no downtime. However, the backups themselves, due to an oversight on our part, were not correctly implemented and as such, torrents and users are now rolled back to the last available good back up taken ~1 month ago. We did manage to recover some data from the corrupted tables, so some recent torrents could be saved. Also, stats (upload and download) are recovered from 10 days ago.

What this means to your account: If you joined before 1 month ago, congratulations, you just got 10 days worth of free downloading on your account as your stats have rolled back.

If you joined after the cutoff however, don't worry, we have got your email addresses and have sent every single one of the lost users a new invite. If you want to be re-associated with your old activity (Forum posts, PMs etc.) then PM a staff member with the necessary information.

If you know somebody who joined after the cutoff, tell them they've been re-invited.

What this means to the torrents: We can't sugar coat it, we lost a lot of torrents. To try and get us back up to speed we will have a 6 hour freeleech on all new uploads when we've taken a look at the tracker. To repeat: there is no freeleech right now, we will make a new announcement when there is.

We will obviously be spending time in the coming days developing a new backup strategy that won't leave us in this horrible situation again, but may require small stints of downtime while we set them up.

"good job"

悲剧了

悲剧啊。得重新注册，晕啊！

哇哈哈 真是太棒了！！！ 好不容易生的 PU 就这样没啦

桌子是除了杯具还有餐具
没号的表示同情

在IRC折腾了半天，终于重见天日。由500M重新出发，杯具啊。。。

太悲剧了，我都降级了= =自己发的种子都丢失了

貌似密码都被回档了= =

是不是要换个用户名注册？

还好，PU很久了。不过，自己最近邀请的7个人全部没了。

是不是要换个用户名注册？
smgnaw 发表于 2010-9-10 15:48

    收到what重发的注册信没有？收到后到IRC发消息，以hothie开头，说明你要注册的用户名。可以用回你原来的用户名。

在IRC折腾了半天，终于重见天日。由500M重新出发，杯具啊。。。
stallion 发表于 2010-9-10 15:42

    恭喜！不过这样你就不属于我的下家了，呵呵。

恭喜！不过这样你就不属于我的下家了，呵呵。
eacfever 发表于 2010-9-10 15:55

    我还是用回原来的用户名。唉，只能继续努力了。

invalid request，还要等等。。

invalid request，还要等等。。
smgnaw 发表于 2010-9-10 15:58

    不需要等的，直接到IRC发消息请求，以hothie开头+你原来的用户名，再说明是invalid request的问题。

上传下载信息是不是找不回了，那我也没其他信息了，重新注册个就行了。

上传下载信息能找回吗？

观望中{:2_145:}

我也悲剧的收到了
Due to a catastrophic database failure, your What.CD? account has been lost. We have however managed to recover your email address and as such have generated a new invite for you. If you would like to rejoin, please activate it by visiting the following link: