Hey guys,
Corbin here, just filling out a brief status update. We’re back up and running, as far as I can tell. I haven’t found anything broken in a few hours, so I’m moving us from “everything is broken and also on fire” to “any problems you may see are actually features in disguise” mode.
This is the official post-mortem. The short version: Some hardware failed. This is a completely natural thing. Due to some awkwardness and a lack of proper preparation on my part, we weren’t able to immediately get back up on our feet, but I just want to stress that this was an act of God and not something we could have guarded against any better. Please don’t email flames to Dreamhost; they’ve been really great throughout the process and gave us a pretty good turnaround for a weekend failure.
The technical details aren’t that interesting. We didn’t have snapshot backups, so it took a bit of leg work and facepalming to get everything back in place. (We now have snapshot backups. I learned the lesson.) Fortunately, the database was unharmed, so all of your comments are still there. (Yes, even the stupid ones.)
Thank you for flying Manly Air, and we look forward to many more comics with you all!
~ C.
Yay.
I should set up backups too…
W00t ! Glad it’s back up, hope you have a better week too.
W00t ! Glad it’s back up, hope you have a better week too.
Good show, mate :)
Saw the site was down, but I had confidence you’d get it in shape sooner or later.
I’m so glad your main site is up. But what about the stuff you hosted on 8080? I didn’t get a chance to read through them all, but they were pretty funny.
I have no idea what 8080 is.
I’m talking about the comics they had hosted on PORT 8080. I wonder if they’ll put them back up.
I am not the best mind reader, but I’m going to guess that you’re either talking about http://newrem.com/
QUESTION: Were you reading comics that were drawn on paper, weird comics that were done in flash, or a comic called “Flavor Text” or was it something called “Comics for the Comic God” or “Unraveled Yarns”?
There are a lot of comics hosted on the same server as Manly Guys, so if port 8080 was, for some reason, redirecting one of those, let us know.
I’m seeing a page with links to Flavor Text, Remmy Genie, and Surrender at Twenty. I think the page that it’s redirecting to is http://www.newrem.com/.
ALL GLORY TO CORBIN! MAGICAL SUCCESSOR OF THE HYPNOTOAD!
Yay! Glad you’re back! Hope this week goes better for you haha.
Was worried that you’d gotten shut down by SOPA or something ridiculous….ok not really but I’m glad you’re back xD;;
So glad to see this is okay! I was so worried when I wandered over as usual on Monday and found no trace of a site ever having existed. I’ve been checking back every day hopefully, and I’m relieved to see it’s not something unfixable. I hope nothing else goes wrong for you guys.
Glad to have you back! ♥
Good to see the manliest site on the internet back to full manliness.
…Manly!
I want to watch the Manly Air guys telling me to fasten my seatbelt tight and low across my hips.
I would love to ride on Manly Air.
Glad things are up and running again. Out of the 10-or-so wecomics I follow regularly, this is my favorite. It would be a shame if something like hardware failure killed it off.
Sweet action, dude and dudette!
Thank you, Corbin, for saving us our weekly dose of manly.Thank you, Coela, for giving us our weekly dose of manly!
…feels like there’s a Holy Father-type prayer in there, somewhere.
Glad to see you guys back. Keep being awesome.
Great job dude.
how many facepalms did it take to get it back up? Glad to see you back! Hope the site is back on track now.
I freaked out. I thought you finally decided to shut the whole thing down and I started sobbing quietly.
Anyways, that’s in the past, I’m glad you’re back!
Good job! /salute
Finally :3
I really missed your comic. It left a hole in my rss-feed and I wanted to know how your story goes on, cursed myself for not getting a backup copy of your strip etc.
I LOVE YOUR COMICS, DRAW ON!
I imagine it was the same for everyone else, but I wasn’t angry so much as worried. No one wants to watch a great webcomic die. On a completely unrelated note, me and a thousand other people are making backups today.