Comments on: CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down

By: elephants and asses

elephants and asses — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:38:56 +0000

yes there were a lot of girls that did used the site. The travellers have diffrent idea about that that most of the people do.

By: buy trust lands

buy trust lands — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:03:24 +0000

I thought it was going to say something about couch potatos surfing the web from their TV delete their own civilization or something.

By: Brandon Buttars

Brandon Buttars — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:06:57 +0000

That’s crazy. It just shows how important having operation standards and how important backups are. That’s too bad things didn’t work out and they lost all of that hard work.

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Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:56:01 +0000

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Want To Be A Good DBA? « AristaDBA’s Oracle Blog…. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:08:43 +0000

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CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down « Sofas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:29:31 +0000

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CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down « Tv Trays — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:07:13 +0000

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How To Be A Good DBA, Take/Test Backups…. « Oracle Admins weblog — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:32:03 +0000

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By: What Makes a Good DBA?

What Makes a Good DBA? — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:09:38 +0000

[...] End of story. Performance tuning and building an awesome server are cool, but this is the bottom line: our data is sacred. Before anything else, you have to make regular backups and you have to make certain that those backups work properly. If you want to know why, read this sad story: CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down. [...]

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+None » Archivos » Lealtad al catre ajeno — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:15:40 +0000

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By: Analizando servicios de CouchSurfing

Analizando servicios de CouchSurfing — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:43:33 +0000

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By: excentral » Ouch!

excentral » Ouch! — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:11:43 +0000

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By: rob

rob — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:02:03 +0000

here we speak about COUCHSURFING

By: Joseph Oster

Joseph Oster — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:36:59 +0000

I don’t know when but they appear to have recovered and are up and running now: http://www.couchsurfing.com/

By: Darren’s Drabble » Blog Archive » Couch surfing or couch potatoes ?

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:35:27 +0000

[...] Being very interested in the web 2.0 scene and trying to keep upto date with the goings on, maybe I have some web 2.0 ideas, I was shocked to read an article about the demise of http://www.couchsurfing.com on the http://www.techcrunch.com site : http://www.tech...elf-shuts-down/ [...]

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down

EveryDigg » Blog Archive » CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:13:58 +0000

[...] "This is just ridiculous. Three year old CouchSurfing, a beloved service used by some 90,000 members, had multiple database crashes and critical parts of the software and data were irretrievably lost. They are not rebuilding the service. They literally put themselves out of business."read more | digg story [...]

By: C

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:17:30 +0000

I love it. The guy now states they only lost 11,000 profiles of which were just inactive users. What a crock – he used the emotions of his audience for a marketing ploy and it worked. This guy is a piece of work if you ask me. For that reason I will never be on that site again.

By: derek hatchard : Signal Catalog #3: Canceling AOL, Sleeping Comcast Tech, CouchSurfing Might Live

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:15:32 +0000

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By: Freestyle Greek

Freestyle Greek — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:50:02 +0000

I never used that couch surfing site but i know someone who has and loved the person they met who showed them around and they met there family and they had a great time and even made a friend in the process.

Seeing the site wasnt backed up and now is no more does that mean the owner will learn from his mistake and come back and start backing up his website?

By: Richard H

Richard H — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:30:17 +0000

They would have been ok, if they had subscribed to an online databackup service such as nBackup.com

nBackup can be scheduled to automaticly backups your data over the internet late at night while your internet traffic isn’t being used.
It’s easy to use, and their is a free trial available.

By: 2signals.com - Signal Catalog #3: Canceling AOL, Sleeping Comcast Tech, CouchSurfing Might Live

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:46:13 +0000

[...] A web-based service called CouchSurfing helped / helps people find places to sleep (i.e., couches to crash on) while traveling. In an remarkably bizarre set of circumstances, CouchSurfing died (http://www.tech...elf-shuts-down/) because a database was dropped without working backups in place. And now in an equally remarkable community effort, it looks like CouchSurfing might be revived. My favorite part is that some volunteers recovered 2GB of data by crawling cached pages from search engines. Posted by derek hatchard 07/05/2006 21:49:18 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) Disclaimer | Comments [0] | Trackback [...]

By: Bob Silva

Bob Silva — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:42:55 +0000

My company has a slogan:

“Only two types of people work here, those that do backups and those that wish they had.”

By: Leroy Brown

Leroy Brown — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:33:52 +0000

I think couch surfing sounds like the stupidest thing i’ve heard today. Probably not a terrible thing that it’s gone?

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Blogbrok ∞ » Som sandt som det er skrevet — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:12:50 +0000

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