₦airaland Forum

henryobinna: see the kind people wey davido dey sorround himself with.... fat fat toads.

mobuch: We should be used to this situations by now; it has come to stay

kaze4blues: Like seriously. .....

U mean nairaland? Uh?

Apatheist: No, believe Seun.
He must release an official statement and apologize.

Hemanwel: I'm sorry to say this: it's going to be France 5 vs 1 Nigeria.

Apatheist: Nairaland was hacked and there was data loss.
Everything after January 10 -- posts, accounts, etc-- was lost.

Harbosede02: NL is bck with set of mad pple!!!

msporche: Me sef just register dis afternoon again

Meestique: So why is the site back? Was any mass repentance recorded?

prof1990: I really don't get the joke. Like say nah blackberry u dey use cos u no fit dey buy mb dey waste am write this kin trash

sevule: @ Seun

I am so disappointed with Seun's handling of the Nairaland data attack. He handled it just like any other Nigerian sole proprietor with absolutely no regard for his customers. For goodness sake what is wrong with an apology and an explanation as to what caused the outage? But instead what we have is business as usual and a blatant disregard for customer satisfaction.

And why oh why where backups of the website not taken? There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for not taking backups in this day and age!!! Common Oga Seun that is the most basic thing a web administrator is expected to do! Attacks on web infrastructure MUST occur hence the issue of backups is NOT optional.

While my post may sound very harsh it is because I actually hold you to very high standards and it sad to know that Nairaland is being managed the same way our refineries and utilities are managed. Seun you have done a rather EXCELLENT job in bringing Nairaland to the exalted position it currently holds. Please do not destroy the work of your own hands by mismanaging Nairaland.

Points of action
1. An apology should be issued on the front page. Please do not take the millions of people that view Nairaland for granted. They are the reason Nairaland is the most visited site in Nigeria and they should not be disrespected.

2. Ensure you have a robust backup and recovery system in place. Not only should backups be taken, but they should be periodically tested to ensure that the backups are actually valid.

Please take this post as constructive criticism

Elantracey: big hugging time