R3Owners.Net is back online after an outage involving a failure on it's server operating system. The information that was restored was representative of the state the site was in during the very early morning hours of October 19th, when the automated backup procedure takes place. All of my servers in the US are backed up nightly to an EMC Storage Array in a secure facility.
Needless to say, but the future relationship with my service provider is going to be reviewed. Like many tech companies, they have underwent their share of re-organization and leadership changes. When things like this happen, it's easy to focus on the negative effects (especially when they delay restoral), but we'll see what happens after I spend some time with their leadership team.
If your peers exercised a lack of faith in the return of R3Owners.Net, don't let it be a factor in your relationship with them. I don't share much information about myself publicly, and a reality in this world is that regardless of age/education/intelligence/status some will still be quick to judge and ridicule.
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