Steel Guitar Forum Goes Offline Temporarily
Steel Guitar Forum goes offline.
On May 19, 2008, the external RAID hard disk drive unit powering the popular website - The Steel Guitar Forum (SGF) - suffered a catastrophic failure, taking the entire website offline. It remains offline as of May 22, 2008, while a new RAID setup is being installed and data recovery attempted. We are hoping to have the server back online as soon as possible, with as little data loss as possible. As many of you already know I do security for the SGF and act as moderator of the "Computers" section of the forum. I have assisted the owner/Administrator, Bobby Lee Quasar, in procuring a suitable replacement.
The Steel Guitar Forum is a (paid) members only community consisting of over 4000 professional and amateur pedal and non-pedal steel guitarists, located around the World. Most of the World's top steel players are members of this community, where information, techniques and music business discussions take place on a daily basis, as well as the exchange of equipment. For many of these members this website is their primary destination on the Internet and I know that they are missing it's presence during this outage. We are doing everything we can to get the SGF back online. In the meantime I recommend that all affected steel guitarists spend some extra time practicing their instruments!
The SGF is back online, as of the afternoon of May 23.
As it turned out both Western Digital hard disks in the WD MyBook Pro Edition II, external RAID enclosure failed at the same time!
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