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By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:43:32 +0000

Actually, the worse has yet to be noticed by Slashdot/other tech sites:

In 2006:

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2006/05/journalspace_down.php

“Early Friday morning, a hard drive in the main server that hosts the live Journalspace site experienced a hardware failure. We have worked around the clock to fix the problem, and restore our members’ data from a recent backup. However, due to the nature of this failure, some of our backup was also corrupted.”

In other words, 2 1/2 years ago, they nearly bit the dust, and they didn’t learn their lesson then.

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