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Johnny Rollback To MarchIt looks like during the raid rebuild the Johnny server data rolled back to March 8th, so we'll only be able to provide backups from data prior to that date. You'll need to rely on your own personal backups that you made over the last few months for any changes since that date. After we're done backing up the data that is available we'll be wiping the server, and rebuilding Johnny. Read moreRaid Rebuild Finished
The extremely time consuming raid rebuild process has finished and Sparkie is back online. All of the VPS on Sparkie seem to have booted up just fine, but Johnny is another story. The widespread filesystem corruption that occurred right before we took him offline cannot be undone, and even though the hardware is operating normally now, Johnny will never be the same again. The databases all seem to be ok, but Apache won't boot up do to thousands o... Read moreJohnny Down but Morty Up
We're still working on getting access to the Johnny hard drive, and we're still hopeful that we can get everyone's data off of there. It's just going to take some more time. We haven't given up yet. Some good news though, is we're getting closer to releasing the Morty server. We should be able to get the first beta testers moved over in the next week. Read more
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Store up to 1000 MB of data for free on the HelioHost servers. When that is full you can upgrade to a paid plan with higher storage. You can transfer your data to and from your account with Plesk file manager, FTP, FTPS, or SFTP.
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