caratnetworks

[zero1]

Hello all, caratnetworks is still accepting torrent site hosting on their VPS? As I see, many big sites has chosen to host there, but maybe they have different rules for colocation and dedicated servers.
Thanks,
zero1

[Slickerey]

A VPS is a slice of a server, so you can basically host a "small" tracker if you're with those guys.

I highly doubt they would say anything about it anyways.

[dvdasacd]

It's not that Carat accept torrent sites and other hosts don't, but AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong) torrent sites are technically legal in Canada. Thus it's perfectly legal to host it - on Carat's part. OR any other Canadian host. What.CD are in Canada, but not Carat.

[Artemis]

Aaaah yes the host with the dodgy hard drives. Carat was FTWR's host and the major reason why that torrent site is not with us any more, that wasn't the only data failure, just the most unrecoverable one.

[pretend]

Aaaah yes the host with the dodgy hard drives. Carat was FTWR's host and the major reason why that torrent site is not with us any more, that wasn't the only data failure, just the most unrecoverable one.

Not making backups was the major reason.

[dvdasacd]

Aaaah yes the host with the dodgy hard drives. Carat was FTWR's host and the major reason why that torrent site is not with us any more, that wasn't the only data failure, just the most unrecoverable one.

I'm sorry, is this a joke? Sure, it's just a torrent site, but facts are facts. I can understand the anger (if I am correct in detecting some there), but if you care about that torrent site (I don't know you that well so am not sure) then let me take you seriously:

First of all, I am still shocked and appalled every time someone reminds me of FTWR and what happened, and will continue to for a long time. Secondly, I am baffled as to why you are shifting the blame from what was an incredible mistake on staff's part (and imo, unprofessional, not to mention deafeningly embarrassing), to something else.

No one's perfect and we're all humans who make mistakes but whoever was responsible (M4rduK I guess?) has a lot to recover in terms of their reputation. I thought doing regular off-site backups was a basic principle of website management 101.

[n00bz0r]

a dev/sysop from ftwr created a script for backing up site DB automatically on another server via FTP. the script is available on gazelle forums.
MySQL and Web Backup Script

the irony..

[ca_aok]

The problem wasn't a lack of backups, the problem was the backups were stored on the same hard drive as the site.

[pretend]

The problem wasn't a lack of backups, the problem was the backups were stored on the same hard drive as the site.

Smart idea, isn't it?

[dvdasacd]

The problem wasn't a lack of backups, the problem was the backups were stored on the same hard drive as the site.

yeah....aka lack of backups .