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Originally Posted by Adam Zaius  Yeah, the problem was with the popular host 'vaserv.com' (also known as fsckvps) - they were running HyperVM and were subject to an exploit where the attacker just decided to delete the harddisks of everyones VM.
About 5% of OSGrid was hosted there (~100-150 regions out of 2000), including the author of the original HyperGrid Business article's regions. |
I had a VPS there, got a backup restored within a day and they're working through all customers - I will be moving my stuff ASAP of course, but it's hardly a total data loss like is being implied.
The big lesson here is never to rely on a single provider.