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?

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.

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

With the end of the origonal database comes rebirth. Couchsurfing 2 — after 3 years of change and development we’re left to rebuild from scratch — to me, that is a good thing; a fresh start and a chance to see who is truly committed and whether this idea is truly capable of standing through the test of time and turmoil.

I have faith.

The database was in the intensive care unit with some of the best doctors in the world, but by Wednesday afternoon it was clear that we could not recover the data from the damage of the “perfect storm.”

Further, our Data Center in Atlanta has employed the FBI data forensics lab team to attempt to recover the data.

FBI data forensics lab ???

Looking pretty interesting - though you have to log in to get most of the details.

My initial reaction was - gee, that’s sad, but maybe we should all go and join another site - then there’ll be more people in one place and that makes a better community.

However, I’ve does seem like CouchSurfing was/is the best of the sites, and the community spirit is particularly strong, and there’s a sense of mission about the whole thing. Very idealistic, which is cool. Although I’m a cynical bastard, I do respect a desire to make the world a better place.

There’s a page here on the HospitalityGuide’s wiki which compares the various hospitality sites. Needs more work (if you want to add something, it’s easy to contribute - or add your comments at the bottom if you don’t know how to edit the table):

http://www.hospitalityguide.ne.....e_networks

Singkong a.k.a. Singkong2005 a.k.a. Chris

I actually didn’t find about this whole collapse until about 10 minutes ago, and it certainly is saddening, though absurd. While I hadn’t used the site extensively, when I came across the site (using StumbleUpon no less), I was highly intrigued and signed up right then.

Michael’s right, there is a need for this kind of service, and though there may be somewhat different alternatives out there, I think Casey should look at this as a chance for him to begin planning, designing, and eventually introducing version 2.0 to his nearly 100k fellow surfers.

CouchSurfingとかいうサイトが、データベースがクラッシュして主要プログラムと顧客データをいっぺんに失った挙句にバックアップにも失敗して、とうとうサービス停止に陥ったというんで…