Adland @ ad-rag.com is back!

First of all, I'd like to thank everybody who sent sweet "get well soon" mails when news leaked out about what had happened to my server. You gave me a reason to get back to work a.s.a.p, and strength, and made me feel better in the middle of my little panic session. Thankyou. Through a bizarre chain of events and miscommunication more suitable for a Monthy Python sketch than real life my server died last week. I should've known that I jinxed it when I named it Humpty. "Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.."

...and all the kings horses...first the machine went down - in a bad way affecting other machines around it- and then the ISP in an attempt to fix it as fast as he could, deleted all the data on the server when he installed another flavour of Linux - as an image on top of my data, deleting everything I had done. What the ISP didn't know was that there was no backup!! All these months of work down the drain! Naturally, I panicked. And I wasn't alone, my ISP had to panic too and has been most helpful in getting the server up and running like I had it again. With no backup whatsoever this meant redoing the whole server from scratch, and thats quite a large amount of work.

Late nights and long hours, ..and all the kings men, worked on putting Adland back together again! Now Adland is back! And so is the commercial-archive. and my other domains and pages are slowly being readded to their places on the web.. ...Except..(there is always a catch!) I can't recreate the users who had signed up here, and I know that there were quite a few. If you got an account before, I'm afraid you will have to do it again. I have learned my lesson, I am now getting backups. And the new server is not called Humpty!!

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