09-14-2006, 12:08 AM
The site had 23,000 listings pre-implosion. It's now showing 5,000.
Quote:Hello Everyone,
Yesterday morning, at approximately 6am CST, the HiBidder.com database imploded. In the simplest terms possible, the database was corrupted, and the corruption affected all of our data. We spent most of the morning
attempting to recover data from daily back-ups, however - the corruption existed also in the back-up files.
As such, we lost more than 95% of our item listings. We are extremely sorry for the affect this has had on each members' listings, hard work and efforts. We appreciate that rebuilding listings is not an easy task, and are waiving any/all listing fees for the foreseeable future.
We appreciate each and every member and their contribution to the HiBidder.com site. We have a wonderful community, and there is daily discussions about rebuilding, relisting, bulk-listing and future growth to include marketing and promotions in our community forums. We welcome you to drop by and find many helpful members, who like you - may have lost listings and are rebuilding the site.
We are committed to our primary goals and objectives of being a family-friendly online community, and hope that you will relist and help rebuild our site. We have a brand new, state of the art database, with site-specific features built in to ensure no future database corruption.
We also have moved HiBidder.com to a dedicated server, which will support our growth for a long while! We hope that you will stay with HiBidder.com, and help us rebuild our site! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact the site staff via the Customer Service link on each
and every page. As you know, we offer the best customer service available and will continue to do so.
We're committed to you and thank you for your membership!
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Thank you,
The HiBidder.com Staff