We managed to speed up our weblog service slightly, although the performance problem is not solved yet. Besides that, we implemented a long awaited feature: the German language pack. Choose between English or German as your weblog language in the “Settings” section of you blog.
Today, we have successfully updated our weblog infrastructure to WordPress MU 2.6.5. Within the next days, we have to to some more small adjustments which should not interfere with your work on this service. Unfortunately, we observed a performance problem with the new WordPress version on our infrastructure which slows down the response time of our service. We try to solve this issue as soon as possible.
What’s new in WPMU 2.6.5. ?
Quite a bit! I quote the feature list from the posting “WordPress 2.6” in the official blog of www.wordpress.org:
wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.We are looking forward on your comments!
Currently we are testing the new version 2.6.x of our WordPress MU blog system. If the tests are successful, we plan to upgrade on December 18.
In this case, the weblog service would be offline the whole day. We will publish the definitive upgrade schedule within the next days.
Due to system maintenance the weblog service (blogs.ethz.ch… and blogs.uz.ch/…) is not available from Monday 24.11.08 at 18.45 until Tuesday 25.11.08 at 08.00.
We apologise for any inconveniences which may result from this scheduled downtime of the service.
Yves Serrano overhauled the ETH WebCD compatible theme of our blog service. Navigation and layout of the static pages have been improved, subtitles are now optional.
Today our Weblog Service has been updated from WordPress MU Version 1.0 –> 1.3.3. Now the Weblog Service shares the code base with the most recent WordPress Version 2.3.3. The new WordPress MU offers a revised tagging system, UTF-8, more possibilities in the blog admin view,…, and a new widgetized ETH WebCD theme. The complete feature lists are available at the WordPress MU-Forum. Enjoy the new WordPress features!
Is there any chance of recovering lost ETH Weblog data posted between December 19 2007 and February 01 2008?
Below some suggestions which might be helpful for partial data recovery:
Internet data search:
Copy data from an RSS reader:
If you or any other person have an RSS feed subscription for your blog, you may be able to use information from the RSS reader to restore the missing data (Benjamin’s tip). You can even post a delivery request for your missing blog entries on your blog.
Data search on your own browser:
Since it is possible that you have viewed your own blog posts on your browser you might still find them in the cache if the browser cache has not been emptied since. Maybe you know someone who has viewed your page, and your site might still be in their cache. Depending on your settings, it’s possible that only images and CSS files are cached, in which case you will unfortunately not find anything.
Sooner or later every cache gets emptied or updated. If you want to try and save your data, you must do it now.
Unfortunately, all postings, comments, new blogs and any changes on established blogs of our service between 19 December 2007 and 01 February 2008 are lost and could not be recovered. Regrettably we are unable to revocer a functional database from more recent backups. Please consult the Blog Support <blog-support@id.ethz.ch> for further questions on this issue.
The weblog team apologizes for the trouble caused. The faulty backup procedure will be examined and improved.
Yves Serrano has just released a new layout for the ETH Weblog Service.
This layout (WordPress Theme) is fully compliant to the ETH Web Corporate Design guidelines. The layout can be requested from our Weblog-Support for “Corporate Blogs”.