One of the ‘proud swiss hosting services’ has lost its pride and its swissness… after being acquired recently by a swedish IT data management company, the hosting services have been delayed for more than a month, and totally down for 4 days now. So I’m out of email, calendar, website…
(insert here swearing in various lenguages).
and on their AGB, basically, they don’t accept any type of responsibility…
any tech specialist to know if this is really a ‘problematic transfer’, or a massive hack?..
Ahhh, this is the issue.
My wife is happy since time reporting tool at one of her jobs is down. Cherry on top, work email is down too. When email works again, messages will be obsolete.
Some info via itnews.ch:
The Swiss hosting provider Webland — part of Sweden’s Miss Group since 2022 — has been affected by a massive outage for a week. On the evening of the 19. Novembers reported Webland a “system failure.” On the night of 20. Novembers, a hardware component was identified as the cause of the fault, a technician moved to the data center. A planned migration to new infrastructure was started — but later canceled. Instead, a disaster recovery was initiated. On the 24. November then came to another memory cluster failure and related interruptions of email and database services.
Even though Webland partially restored the accessibility of individual services in the meantime, there were still drops in performance, delays (for example, in e-mails) and interruptions of certain services. According to user reports about platforms like Trustpilot and Google, many customers have been virtually completely offline for days. According to some reports, the hotline from Webland was also unavailable.
As of today: The incident continues to be run as “unresolved” on the status page. On request, Jannik Nägeli of Webland commented: “We know how stressful the ongoing failure is for our customers, and we are doing everything we can to normalize the situation as quickly as possible. This process requires care and precision to ensure the integrity of the data.” According to Nägeli, the company could not currently make a reliable statement about the expected duration of the complete restoration.
OMG! Wifey had an argument earlier this year about using the “system” for some trivial stuff at work, zero efficiency gains. Answer from management was the stereotypical one of someone who has null experience with computers: you know nothing about IT, computers don’t make mistakes, stuff like that. I should put some Prosecco to chill in the balcony. Ach so…you want me to use paper NOW?
The hosting service that I use is still Swiss and doing well. Might want to consider switching to them.
Very amature, time to find a new host. This is entire port should have been done in parallell.
It seems the issue has not been fixed yet. It reached 20min after 4 days.
And, this is entrepreneurial spirit:
very appropriate. I’m still rumbling rumbling rumbling…my inlaw is an IT expert, so that wouldn’t be a problem - it is more the pain in the *** of moving everything again. A good time maybe to optimize things. website? what for… cloud? we’ll see…
In the end the only system one might trust is their own. Therefore, got mine sitting on a shelf with all the family pics. That´s all that really matters.
And it can accomodate all thoses photos of what you cook!
Agency, self-reliance, intellectual curiosity?
We’re talking about SMEs from people who won’t spend a single calorie outside their area of expertise. Any non-invoiceable task is a no-no. I’m taking a stand from my nerd pulpit and shout: Philistines!!!
This is quote from 20min:
For many SMEs, the situation is existential. Thorsten Stutzmann from the market research institute “die Marktforscher” with three employees describes the situation as a “total disaster”. His team works completely remotely, everything is done via email. “We are completely incapable of acting. It’s our busiest month in terms of turnover and we don’t even know whether customers can see that their emails haven’t arrived.” He has been a Webland customer for ten years and deliberately chose a Swiss provider because it seemed the most secure. “I didn’t expect an outage like this. A few hours is okay. But a week? That’s fatal.”
I recently set up my own home NAS and have to say it is quite addictive!
F****** Webland is down again! Cannot believe it!!! I didn’t even have time to send my resignation as client!
