ACK it's happened again! And it's not good: Seems our webhost likes to play an amusing game with MySQL where they spontaneously reboot the dataserver and restore from the most recent backup, and what that means for Teledyn.com users is your kind contributions are sometimes cast into the abyss.

While I feel their pain in trying to run a MySQL server that's being hit by God only knows how many websites on the shared hosting platforms, it's also my understanding that MySQL should be up to the task, and if it's not, then under the proprietary licensed version, it should be MySQL's duty to figure out why, or time to consider either more servers or a different rdbms that's up to the task.

In the meantime, tho' just about everyone posting to this site or our SBP sister site have reported posts they'd verified and viewed many times suddenly vanishing.

If it's any consolation, it happens to me too. Just today, both the new Linux stories had to be re-entered after a brief period of site lock. Because we're poor (_hint hint_) we can't afford the minimum for a colocated server, and that means we're just another of the hundreds of sites hosted on good old no10 and as such, availability and QoS is not within our power. What I do is retain all my posts in an editor (or cached Mozilla pages) until I'm certain they've been caught by the (hourly?) backups.

Our apologies for the inconvenience.