Service Announcement
April 7, 2008
If you've reached this page, you were probably trying to access an old forum on eamped.com. On January 10th, eamped's ISP suffered a server power outage which resulted in catastrophic data lost on eamped's server. The resulting affect was that all forums hosted by eamped were lost. We (lefora.com) are sorry to have to report on such an unfortunate incident for the thousands of forum admins and the hundreds of thousands forum members.
Prior to the data lost, lefora.com had been in talks with eamped.com about forming a partnership between the two forum hosting companies. Eamped had previously offered phpbb forum software and we at lefora wished to add our new forum software as a choice for individuals.
When the outage occurred, lefora.com stepped in to help however we could. We hosted a new eamped homepage with an explanation of what happened. We also presented the option for new forums to be created on lefora.com. We worked with eamped to see if we could help recover any lost data (as we understand the frustration felt among forum members.) Eamped announced the data was not recoverable and would have to shut down their services.
To help alleviate some of the burden from prior eamped forum admins, we offered to redirect their old eamped url's to our new service, we even redirected some old eamped url's to forums on third-party providers to make sure members could come together in a new forum. We (lefora) tried to soften the blow as much as possible.
With eamped out of service and no ability to quickly return, lefora.com and eamped.com came to an agreement to have lefora purchase the eamped.com domain so that new forums could be created on lefora. If your forum was lost, we are sympathetic with your feelings and welcome you to the lefora.com service, but understand if you wish to work with another provider.
Sincerely,
The lefora team
http://www.lefora.com
Frequently Asked Questions:
Where is my forum?
All the data for your forum was lost in a power outage at eamped's ISP on January 10, 2008. There was no recoverable data.
Who runs eamped now?
Eamped as a service has ceased to exist. However, lefora.com stepped in to help after the data lost and subsequently purchased the eamped.com domain name to offer new forums on our free forum hosting service at http://www.lefora.com.
Why should I create my forum on lefora?
You don't have to, we are just offering this as service to anybody who lost a forum on eamped.com. If you lost a forum, you are free to create a new forum on lefora.com or any other service of your choosing.
How do I know lefora won't loose my data?
Learning from what happened with eamped, we continue to improve our backup policies. Not only do we back up our forums daily, but we also keep a copy 'off-site' so if anything was to happen to our ISP, we have another backup in a different geographic location. We'll continue to improve our backup policies to minimize any affect from outages.