[cobaltrevolter]

The website of the hosting company Acta Divina and all their hosted sites have been down now for more than 3 days (My one too!). Anybody any idea what's going on there?

[oli]

3 days thats not good - go on webhostingtalk.com, theres an area to check hosts downtime.

[roto]

UPDATE:

I subscibe to a site's newsletter that is hosted by Acta Divina. Today, this landed in my inbox:

Originally Posted by newsletter from that site

You may have noticed that [insert site to which ®oto subscribes to their newsletter here] and all it's related sites have been down since late last week. We've received confirmation today that our hosts Actadavina were taken out by a hacker onslaught. The attack last week crippled their infrastructure (web and e-mail servers) and may well force them to shut down permanently. [insert site to which ®oto subscribes to their newsletter here] is one of many sites that have been affected. This means that all [insert site to which ®oto subscribes to their newsletter here] domains and e-mail addresses are down at present, which is an outrageously sorry state of affairs.

These people are acting way too cool. I would LOSE MY FUCKING MIND.

[Subversive]

If any design related people's site have suffered as a result of this, I'll be willing to host some people as a favour to fellow designers, even if it's just on a short term basis.
The offer is there if anyone is interested.
Just PM me if you're interested.

[oli]

2Advanced welcomes ActaDivina and Second Chapter Customers.

2A recognizes the valuable contribution Justin Bauer and his company ActaDivina and Second Chapter have provided to the community over the years, both as a service provider and sponsor to the design community, and we would like to continue to extend those services to those of you affected by the recent attack on their network.

Following the announcement of the attack, 2Advanced immediately contacted Justin to offer our assistance. We have partnered with NI Solutions for their expertise in server security and will be working with AD engineers and technicians over the weekend to help them diagnose, repair and recover the data contained on the server that was attacked and store it in a secure and stable location for AD customers to retrieve.

Obviously the data stored on the compromised server is extremely valuable and for some, irreplaceable, and we will do our best to recover as much data as possible and return it to the respective owner. The kernel on the server was severely damaged and we can not make any guarantees but we have some of the best techs and engineers in the industry working on the problem so we are confident that we can achieve our goals.

In addition, we are prepared to work with ActaDivina and Second Chapter Customers by providing the following services:

For ActaDivina Customers, we are offering 20% off on all of our hosting plans with a credit for those customers that prepaid for hosting at AD in the amount of their outstanding balance. In other words, if you prepaid for 1 year and have 6 months left on your contract, 2A will give you a credit for 6 months of hosting on our network in addition to the 20% off of our normal pricing.

For those of you that were sponsored through the Second Chapter program, we are offering to continue that sponsorship at 2Advanced.Net under our Complimentary Hosting program.

If you are interested in either of these programs, please contact Logan One at lone@2advanced.net or Jami Beaton jbeaton@2advanced.net and we will get you up and running again.

We wish Justin and the staff of ActaDivina all the best.

[brandonx49]

I have a client who was being hosted by ActaDivina - how do we go about recovering the contents of the website?

Thanks Brad

[justin]

Hi there 2advance.net I've read your post above and am overjoyed that you going to recover the actadivina.com server, i need acess to my sites mysql database BADLY, every day that passes, it gets worse. Please contact me if i can access my data.

Thanks, Justin. ( not Baurer )

[oli]

I just posted the contents of an email I received, Im not 2a

[roto]

liar

[DesertFox07]

Originally Posted by oli

2Advanced welcomes ActaDivina and Second Chapter Customers.

oli, did you actually try contacting them about this or did you just get the e-mail. I've tried contacting them to no avail. just wanted to make sure if this was legit or not.

[Naguib]

This is really weird....I hv lost everything of my site, which was full of information...i dont hv any back up files...and AD never wrote us anything abt wht has actually happened to them. Wht the heck! ..I want some kind of compensation.....

[dan]

I doubt you'll get any compensation. Why did you not have any back ups of your info? that's web 101. Always back up your info. I'm sure you'll find that in the contract you signed up to for the hosting you waived them any responsibility as far as lost files go. Servers break. You should insure yourself against this with back ups. It's that simple.

Granted something seems to have gone catastrophically wrong at AD, and their customer service may leave more than a little to be desired if they have still not contacted you about the problems they've had. But no matter what you should have back ups of your info.

[Blue-Goblin]

Following the announcement of the attack, 2Advanced immediately contacted Justin to offer our assistance. We have partnered with NI Solutions for their expertise in server security and will be working with AD engineers and technicians over the weekend to help them diagnose, repair and recover the data contained on the server that was attacked and store it in a secure and stable location for AD customers to retrieve.

Obviously the data stored on the compromised server is extremely valuable and for some, irreplaceable, and we will do our best to recover as much data as possible and return it to the respective owner. The kernel on the server was severely damaged and we can not make any guarantees but we have some of the best techs and engineers in the industry working on the problem so we are confident that we can achieve our goals.

Wow!! I was looking through the forums & came across this blast from the past. While this is all very old news I thought I would set the record straight as far as the information posted here.

I cannot say weather or not 2A contacted Justin B. or not. However I can assure everyone that no one worked with AD "engineers" (LOL) & no data was ever recovered. And at no point where the "best techs and engineers in the industry" ever working on the problem.