If you’re wondering if exmsft.com had been having problems, you’re quite correct – it was. Emphasis on “was”. In the first half of March 2012 the original exmsft.com had a major and terminal meltdown.
This is the completely new exmsft.com server, and at the same time a new volunteer owner: Leo Notenboom. As a result there have been some major changes, and I apologize for the sudden nature of those.
We do not have the list of the existing accounts or forwards that were on the old server – all data was lost. We’re relying on you to tell us what’s broken.
What you need to do:
- If you had an email forward (@exmsft.com address simply forwarded to another email address) and it’s no longer working, send email to “info <at> exmsft.com” with the email addresses involved. (You know to replace the ” <at> ” with @, right? 🙂 ).
- If you had an email account (a POP3 mailbox) on exmsft and it’s no longer working, send email to “info <at> exmsft.com” with the email address involved, we’ll set up a new one.
- If you had a web site (something like https://exmsft.com/~leon) email “info <at> exmsft.com” with the details. We cannot recover the data (all has been lost), but if that URL is critical we can re-establish it. Given that it’s now been over three years since the crash, the assumption is that there are no critical sites left.
- If you’re looking for a new account: Instructions are here.
If you’re on Facebook you might also consider joining the Facebook group named “exmsft.com”. It’s a channel for status information and discussions: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=132850970835. It’s been used heavily during the recent turmoil.
The (rough) cronology:
On March 12th, 2012 the original exmsft.com server died when as part of moving it to a new data center it was mistakenly plugged into a 220v outlet. All data was lost.
On March 14th the new permanent home of exmsft.com came online. It’s up and running and happy and we’re re-establishing forwards and accounts that previously existed in response to emailed requests. The new server is actually a virtual server with both support and nightly backups – you can read more about the specific configuration here.