Initally we tried to bring the server online with old drive and we decided to move the accounts on a new server to reduce the downtime. Efforts of our system admins in datacenter failed to bring the server online with the old drive.
It takes close to 2 hours to setup a new drive and 2 - 3 hours to restore accounts from one drive to another drive.Website Hostings will start coming online one by one from now as we have started the restore. New drive and latest version of OS will ensure that this server will never face any problems for at least next 1 year. We maintain daily and weekly backup of all our servers on 3 different backup servers which allows to convince our customers that they wont loose data more than 24 hours old.
All
website hostings hosted on the server will be online in next 3 hours. Restore will progress in alphabetical order whcih will restore accounts with usernames from a - z. Those who have their usernames starting with a should see their
website hostings online in less than 1 hour.