After 13 days off-line diasp.org is back! (This is a repost, which I will explain below)
Many thanks to @David Morley for his tireless efforts getting the pod back on line!! Thank you too to all the pod members who made donations while it was down to help get things running again!
To the rest of the #fediverse #federation - it is good to be back.
For those of you who missed the story, the short version: On 5 April 2021 there was a power interruption at the server hardware provider for Diasp.org, WebNX in Ogden, Utah. The back-up generator kicked in just fine, then caught on fire. The resulting fire suppression efforts by the fire department shut everything down and also took out a swath of the servers with water damage. Yeah, good question, who fights electrical fires with water? The diasp.org server was one of the servers that was water damaged, it seems. It was going to be a long time before service was restored, perhaps weeks, months or never so our pod admin, David, moved us to a new service provider and just finished getting it up and on-line. So we are back. Miss us?
and now an update and explanation as to why this was posted again.
After the above original post the hard drive on the brand new diasp.org server quit and had to be replaced. It was corrupted and so we lost all the diasp.org posts made in between the two failures. I managed to recover mine from synches over at joindiaspora.com, so I am just going to repost them here again. Sorry for any duplication that causes.
