Bringing FarmTrof back

PRO is paused — your paid days are protected

If you purchased PRO but cannot see your subscription on the website right now, please do not worry. We have not yet restored the user database, so PRO is not showing either.

We are waiting for a backup from Beget — a saved copy of the website’s data. We need it to recover information about accounts and subscriptions.

PRO subscriptions are paused: the waiting period will not use up your paid days. After recovery, we will extend subscriptions to cover this time.

If you are charged for PRO during this period, we will add all the days you paid for to your subscription. You will not lose them.

For now, the website is ad-free for everyone. You can keep using the sections that are available.

As soon as we receive the data backup, we will begin restoring user accounts and PRO. We will share the results in a separate update. Thank you for your patience and support!

Chinese fishing spots are back on FarmTrof!

Friends, another step in bringing the website back: we have restored translation of Chinese posts and have started publishing them in Fishing spots.

Fishing spots is once again receiving posts from different countries, including China. As before, we review every post manually before publishing it.

We plan to return to our usual volume of around 300–400 posts a day.

Work on restoring FarmTrof continues. Thank you to everyone who supports us with kind words, help and donations. Together, we are bringing our website back to life!

8 November: we are starting to rebuild the website

Friends, we are still waiting for Beget to provide a backup of our website. We have decided to keep moving: from today, 8 November, we are rebuilding FarmTrof from scratch, using everything we have managed to save.

The first section, Fishing spots, is already open. We are now publishing Russian posts, checking each one manually before it goes live.

Next, we will restore the café and the other sections. This evening, we plan to try translating and publishing Chinese posts.

When Beget provides the backup, we will check which old data we can recover and continue restoring the website. Thank you for staying with us and for your support!

FarmTrof: what we are waiting for and how we plan to recover

Friends, FarmTrof is still unavailable following the cyberattack on Beget, the company whose servers hosted our website and its data.

Beget says some servers are already running, while the remaining ones need to be restored from backups. We are waiting for access to the FarmTrof files and any surviving copies of our data. We will only know what can be recovered once we have checked them.

Unfortunately, Beget has reported data loss in its cloud services. We are therefore preparing for the possibility of having to rebuild much of the website content and service data almost from scratch. The situation has particularly affected post photos and the database containing user and PRO information. We still need to establish the extent of the losses by examining the surviving copies.

We are keeping busy: we are working with surviving materials and confirmed payments to prepare account and PRO recovery. We are also planning automatic backups with an independent provider and tests to check that those backups can be restored, to reduce the risk of this happening again.

There is no confirmed reopening date yet. Once access returns, we will check the data and gradually bring the website sections and features back online. We will share results and next steps here and in our communities.

Recovery will take time and effort, as well as money for servers and separate backup storage. If you would like to and are able to support the recovery of FarmTrof, our donation links are below.

Support is entirely voluntary. You can add “For FarmTrof recovery” to your donation message. Thank you to everyone who stays with us, offers kind words and helps the project ❤️

Beget has started bringing websites back online. FarmTrof update

Friends, there is news about recovery after the cyberattack. Beget, the company that hosts our website and its data, has announced that it has started bringing servers online. The first customer websites are already accessible.

This is happening gradually. Before bringing each server online — a computer that runs websites — specialists check it manually, deal with the effects of the attack and check the data. That is why all websites cannot come back at the same time.

We are also waiting for our turn to restore FarmTrof and bring it back online. We have not yet regained access to the website and its data. There is still no confirmed reopening date for our website.

Once access returns, we will check what has been recovered and start bringing FarmTrof back online. We will share the results of those checks and announce the reopening separately.

While we wait, we are keeping busy: we are planning additional data protection and a more reliable recovery system. We plan to make automatic backups in independent locations and regularly check that the website can actually be restored from them. This will help reduce the risk of data loss and bring us back online faster after similar incidents.

Follow updates here and on our temporary page:
https://rr4farmtrof.com/

Thank you for staying with us and supporting FarmTrof ❤️

Official Beget updates:
https://t.me/beget_official

Our photos and website data

We shared new details about the attack. Our post photos were stored in a Beget service whose data the company reported as lost.

The copies of photos, post text and Helper data available to us have been saved separately from Beget. We will check accounts, PRO, payments and other website data once access is restored. There is still no confirmed reopening date.

Beget explained why recovery takes time

According to Beget, attackers gained control of its systems and started deleting data. The company said that file backups for its hosting service had survived.

Before bringing websites back online, its staff are manually checking servers — the computers that host websites. They cannot safely turn them on without those checks. Beget has not given a date for full recovery.

We explained why FarmTrof was unavailable

After Beget’s official announcement, we explained that a cyberattack on our hosting provider had caused the outage. Estimates for individual recovery tasks did not mean the whole website would return within a few hours.

Beget confirmed the cyberattack

The company reported an overnight attack on 1–2 November that disrupted several services. Recovery work began. Beget said it could not yet give an exact time for all services to return.

Our first notice about the outage

We reported that FarmTrof was unavailable because of a problem at our hosting provider. At that time, the cause and recovery timeline were not yet known.