Current Event
On Monday, April 16, 2012 at 1:50 PM EST Broadband Reports (DSLReports) went offline due to a serious power failure at their host's datacenter. While Net Access Corporation did have power backup, both battery and gas generator, the gas generator failed to come on, thus exhausting battery power. Due to this unusual power failure, it knocked out the database server, thus rendering the site useless. Compounding problem is that Net Access Corporation didn't have any "snapshots" of DSLReports data and although all data is intact, the SQL servers have no access to the database. By May 3rd, 2012 some site features had been restored, including the ability read posts, receive instant messages, and create posts. At that time, only posts, news articles and ISP reviews created before about September 17, 2010 could be read as well posts and news articles created after May 3rd, 2012. On May 11, 2012, at around 10:00 PM EDT, the site went offline temporarily as the final restoration of the site was implemented. It has been estimated by the site owners that the cost of the recovery was in excess of $28,000. The site is not 100% glitch free, but this should be virtually undetectable by most users.
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