Hackers destroy Avsim!

Chronictank said:
The point is he did it in his spare time he doesnt owe any of you anything so it isn't "irresponsible", and cant be compared to a corporate world as at the end of the day even if it was all lost it doesn't really matter all that much
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I beg to differ. Perhaps he didn't owe anything to the site's visitors (lets ignore the fact he accepted donations), but after 13 years of work, he was irresponsible to himself for not ensuring it had a good backup solution.

If I spent that much of my life working on something (even if only a side project), you can be sure I would invest the whopping <£100 quid it would cost to keep that project safe.

Saying that though, hindsight is always 20/20.
 
It's been a sorry few months for flight simmers, what with MS pulling the plug and now avsim getting hacked.

I had several addon files I authoured on avsim, going back years for a few different flight sims. All gone. It really is strange Tom (the owner) did not have a more robust backup system. The site was a massive resource for simmers, not just files but tips and tricks, reviews and tons of forum stuff. A real shame.
 
Chronictank said:
The point is he did it in his spare time he doesnt owe any of you anything so it isn't "irresponsible", and cant be compared to a corporate world as at the end of the day even if it was all lost it doesn't really matter all that much

He "could" have put a better system in, but this would involve time, money and effort he obviously didn't want to expend. Hence his current system seemed to be working and he didnt bother expanding it.

While it is silly it is by no means "crazy" or "unbelievable"
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Posts like this are beyond stupid. The FACT is that external backup is cheap, readily available, and he is obviously GUTTED at losing this, something which served thousands of grateful people. I'm sure he feels completely gutted, and in hindsight wishes he could turn back time and make a cheap NAS.

But please gentlemen, continue to make more ludicrous posts about how a NAS was unecessary and he owed no-one anthing.
 
Richdog said:
Posts like this are beyond stupid. The FACT is that external backup is cheap, readily available, and he is obviously GUTTED at losing this, something which served thousands of grateful people. I'm sure he feels completely gutted, and in hindsight wishes he could turn back time and make a cheap NAS.

But please gentlemen, continue to make more ludicrous posts about how a NAS was unecessary and he owed no-one anthing.
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Read what i posted, i didnt say it was unecessary
Simply that it was understandable how he put it off
 
Sounds like an inside job, at least someone who knew that this would cause serious havok.

Its a great shame as I used Avsim (not recently unfortunately) but it was a great resource and contained a lot of insight into flight simming. I hope it can be resuscitated but unfortunately it seems it may be the end of the Avsim flight :-(
 
Im still speechless. I only came across this story at work. I've been using that site since I signed up to it in 2005 and turning to it for another Boeing 737 repaint, a CFM56 soundset or some Alaskan airport scenery became second nature. While there are lots of other (excellent) sites out there Avsim was well....Avsim.

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All this site did was give happiness to thousands of simmers from all over the globe. The true wonder of MS Flight Sim is the truly amazing collection of thousands and thousands of freeware files that you can fill the sim with. Some of these freeware gems surpass payware in their quality. Avsim was where many of the creators of those files uploaded to.

I hope they rebuild and come back and this time I hope they backup to several different hard drives, put it on a satellite and send the dang thing into orbit. Put it in a container on the ISS.

When you guys say "external backup" do you mean a server in a different physical location from the primary one? Or do you mean like a NAS system whereby once the backup is made the NAS is then physically disconnected from the network & the internet so it stays secure?
 
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Essentially I mean the latter, doesnt necessarily have to be in a different physical location (although that would be best for DR purposes), just something seperate from the network would have been sufficient (as well as relatively cheap and easy to run). I deal with 3 TBs of data at work and ours is all automated and doesnt require manual intervention at all. They most likely wouldnt have needed something to that kind of degree, but there are more than enough back up options around that would have been sufficient.
 
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