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Old 05-12-2014, 07:39 PM   #1
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Delphi Classics?
I'm not able to access delphiclassics.com. Do they have a new url or are they reconstructing the site, anyone knows? It's been off for days now.
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Old 05-12-2014, 08:01 PM   #2
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that site will allow you to at least see if it is down for just you or down globally.
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Old 05-12-2014, 08:04 PM   #3
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http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/

that site will allow you to at least see if it is down for just you or down globally.
I agree, it's a very useful service, except in a case like this that doesn't really work. The site is "up" in the sense that you are taken to a page when going to the URL, it just happens to be a generic start-up page for their web host.
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Old 05-12-2014, 08:07 PM   #4
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This had better be just a glitch. If they've screwed their customers for a second time, they're probably not going to survive.

It does appear that they've changed their web host.

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Old 05-13-2014, 12:52 PM   #5
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Most of their titles still seem to be available in the Amazon.com Kindle store. But I haven't tried purchasing any in the last few days.

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Old 05-13-2014, 01:14 PM   #6
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Old 05-14-2014, 01:34 AM   #7
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Dang, and I just discovered them! I'm currently reliving my childhood by reading the works of L.M. Montgomery that I bought from them a few weeks ago. It is really a lovely collection and has a bunch of short stories that I don't have in my older collections I got off Gutenberg.

There were more books I wanted to buy -- hopefully they'll be back.
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Old 05-14-2014, 10:04 AM   #8
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Old 05-14-2014, 02:50 PM   #9
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The last time they changed hosting sites it was a mess.
LOL. I've ported a big(gish) forum several times from host to host, and from one forum package to another... without any glitches and a downtime of about an hour or two snapshot and restore/convert the database. I didn't lose a single account or post.

Officially, I'm just an amateur regarding webhosting stuff (I can write website backends, but I'm not a hosting/server buff), so I company should be able to do at least as well.
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Old 05-14-2014, 02:52 PM   #10
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This had better be just a glitch. If they've screwed their customers for a second time, they're probably not going to survive.
*shrug*

I already have all the classics (51 books, including the free ones) I wanted from them. There are some I might have bought because I know the authors by name, but my familiarity with those classics end there.
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Old 05-14-2014, 03:46 PM   #11
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My oh my! Remember when they went down last year (Jan 2013)?

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Delphi Classics has been a favorite Web store of mine for over a year. In fact, I wrote about them as recently as this week, when I talked about my DRM-free January. And just as that story was going up, their site went down, due to a mysterious ‘deletion’ on their servers. I have been anxiously checking to see when it came back, and just a short while ago, I received the following email:

Dear customer,

We are writing to inform you of changes to our website. Unfortunately, last Friday our webhost company deleted from their servers the entire files of several websites, including the Delphi Classics store. This was an error which we had no control over. We have managed to salvage web page information, eBook files and other data, but all customer accounts and order details were lost. The server on which we stored the backups was also affected, losing the details of thousands of orders and accounts.

We have been working hard over the last five days to build a completely new website, with improved performance and features, as well as a more secure location. Sadly, we are simply unable to restore your previous account details and you will need to create a new account to make a new order. When registering a new account, you can re-use the same username and password if you would like.
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I wrote earlier about the site issues facing Delphi Classics this week. I had some questions about some of the items in the email they sent to their customers yesterday, and Peter from Delphi Classics was kind enough to reply very promptly:

“Thank you for your email. It has been a very difficult time for us here lately! Unfortunately, last Friday our webhost company deleted from their servers the entire files of several websites, including the Delphi Classics store. This was an error which we had no control over. We have managed to salvage web page information, eBook files and other data, but all customer accounts and order details were lost. The server on which we stored the backups was also affected, losing the details of thousands of orders and accounts. We have been working hard over the last five days to build a completely new website, with improved performance and features, as well as a more secure location. Sadly, we are simply unable to restore your previous account details and you will need to create a new account to make a new order. When registering a new account, you can re-use the same username and password if you would like.”
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Old 05-14-2014, 09:15 PM   #12
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Does anyone here have an account with Delphi Classics directly, and if so, have they received any e-mail regarding the system outage?
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Old 05-14-2014, 09:26 PM   #13
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Does anyone here have an account with Delphi Classics directly, and if so, have they received any e-mail regarding the system outage?
Yes and No. I even sent email to their sales address and have yet to get a reply.

Just tried again, trying to get to my account (not front page) and now I'm getting an "Offline for Maintenence" message along with a "We apologise to our customers. We are updating our website and it will be back as quickly as possible." Top page still displays "Website Coming Soon! Stay Tuned" message.
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Old 05-15-2014, 02:04 AM   #14
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The site isn't just off-line, it's borked.

Just replace index.php with a good maintenance page. Better yet, put back a backup. Sjeez. Amateurs
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Ugh, hate to say this, but now I feel justified in refusing to buy direct from them after they lost their first site (and they changed their language on the frequency of updates).

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Last time, they lost the back-up as well; wondering if the lesson was learnt this time around
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