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Thank you Chekhov! Thanks for thinking ahead and for your incredible commitment. I greatly appreciate it! It's really awesome to know I can count on you, the admins and the community in times of trouble! Fortunately, I was able to retrieve some cached files from the pages that have been created/modified recently. The wiki will remain locked until we (the admins) can fix it the best we can. Regarding your question, the page size isn't a big problem in regards to the server traffic (fortunately). Most of the data is saved in the database. There are other bottlenecks and most of them are hardware or network-related. I'll look into further optimizing the server resources and utilization. Thanks again!

Hello everyone, Just to let you know that I'm aware that the wiki is currently down. I'm doing everything I can to get it back up. It seems there might be a hardware problem related to the server. It affected the wiki's database (probably because it has become extremely huge + the traffic is big too; and there was a read/write failure). I'm working with support to see what we can do and what are our options. And to make things worse, it seems that because of this issue (partly), the automatic backuping system that I had in place for the database didn't quite work as expected and the last (manual) backup is from December 11th, 2013. You can believe me when I say that I'm extremely disappointed with this situation. I really thought that everything was under control at this point and that the backups were being made as they should have... I hope there's still a way to recover the current database and we'll do everything we can for that but I'd rather be 100% honest with you guys and let you know that the worst-case scenario would be a rollback to December 11th... I'm really sorry. I may have to consider yet another server upgrade. It looks like the traffic keeps increasing and increasing and the hardware sometimes has a hard time to keep up.. In any case, I'll keep you updated as soon as there's some news. I thank you for your understanding! Maurice