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Article #91Re: Part of my Webspace was Deleted!
From: Geoff Buckingham
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <VntGAAAw2ws2EwBh@whirlnet.demon.co.uk>, Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.demon.co.uk> writes: > [Hopefully there's just a simple explanation for my rather AOL-style > subject] > > Something odd must have recently happened to my webspace. I shall > explain... > > The main bulk of my webspace is taken up in the subdirectory /discog/ > with well over 400 files. (It's complete rubbish and I haven't updated > it for a year, but I retain it as it generates hits and some people find > it useful). This generates between 4 and 12 MB of bwusage per day. I > often keep checking my bwusage, and from Tuesday I was no longer having > /discog/ listed. This is not unusual, as an occasional lull is not rare. > > I received an email from someone today informing me it was giving a 404. > Instantly I investigated, and sure enough, he was right. I went to my > ftp account, and the /discog/ directory had disappeared! > > I had not done *anything* to cause this, apart from the uploading of > some new stuff in a new subdirectory a week or two ago. > > Could someone offer a plausible explanation for this dissapearance? I > have since reuploaded it all, but I am extremely curious to know what > caused this. > Someone (if it wasn't you change your passwords now) ftp'd to the box and renamed the directory at about 10.41 on January 24: Renamed /u/demon.co.uk/w/h/i/whirlnet/discog to +/u/demon.co.uk/w/h/i/whirlnet/forsyth/discog -- GeoffB
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f76f2,ebb92bc7d1cf0a09 X-Google-Attributes: gidf76f2,public X-Google-Thread: fad9d,ebb92bc7d1cf0a09 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public From: geoffb@pandora.noc.demon.net (Geoff Buckingham) Subject: Re: Part of my Webspace was Deleted! Date: 1999/02/01 Message-ID: <794896$3g3$1@info.noc.demon.net> X-Deja-AN: 439344603 References: <VntGAAAw2ws2EwBh@whirlnet.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Demon Internet Network Operations Centre Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: demon.service,demon.homepages.authoring