Nope it’s (was) a VPS, the control panel just errors out when selecting it Now that I think of it I have no idea where the VPS was actually located at, OVH could dynamically assign and shift them around for all I know.
edit: Found some documentation which suggests I should be able to find the room info from the manager, but since the whole VPS has disappeared from the listings I can only assume it was hosted in one of the damaged rooms
Do we have an estimated date for when the BUTT may find a new home and be back up? As someone said, I also didn’t realize how much I used it until it was gone Don’t personally mind losing history, its a cool feature, but not an essential one…
I wouldn’t expect to get an ETA on BUTT until they find out about the status of the previous server. No need to change hosting if access to that server is restored.
In the meantime, you can use https://www.boundlexx.app/items/browse/ to find prices. It’s no BUTT, but it’s better than nothing. It loads slower and is harder to use, but it works and it has a link to the atlas to see where the shop stand is.
@RobZadouch OVH’s latest update outlined a 2 week plan to restore the damaged parts of the datacenter. I did send a ticket asking about the current state of the VPS and possible future actions but I’m not expecting an answer any time soon, they’re most likely receiving a buttload of tickets like that and have no idea themselves yet how it’s going to pan out.
I’ve already paid for more than a year’s worth of hosting with them so I’m not going to migrate to another one unless it’s necessary. And certainly not before getting a refund, I’m not that rich
It’s also not something that can be done with just a button click, I didn’t make it an easy deployable since I wasn’t expecting to move it, there were many random things from the vhost config to cron jobs that had to be set up in a fairly specific way for it to function properly, which in hind sight I should’ve documented . Maybe this will teach me to do that in the future… Would likely take a few days of work just to get it running somewhere else, so I would rather wait for them to tell me it’s lost until I waste time setting it up somewhere else.
As someone who loves to look at and peruse that BUTT, I’m sure there are those of us who would donate to a GoFundMe in case you need to move to another site and new a funds boost.
I know I’m updating our backup policies at work after this. You normally don’t think “oh yeah, those cloud servers could catch fire and both primary and backup servers will literally melt”, even if I had a textbook teach me it in college.
In my last job in a electronic supplies store my boss developed the system to control all the selling and the database for all the products, the thing is, that damn system was running in a 15 or more years old laptop and it couldn’t be moved or installed in any other PC because he didn’t want to break the damn thing.
I just keep wondering what the hell is going to happen to that business the day that old machine dies.