Site has been down
Some of you may have noticed some strange things going on with the site over the past few days. My webhost provider had some hardware problems that caused the server to be down for two days. They claim it was a hard drive failure, but anyone with any experience in computers would know that there's no reason for a HD failure to result in two days of downtime. (Especially since an one ISP was able to get back up and running 72 hours after being destroyed by a Tornado) Then the backups of my site, and of all the additional sites that I host, were corrupted. This normally would not be a big deal, but I didn't have backups of several things that had been added to the server. And finally, after getting them to recreate my account on the system, they have turned off several features that were available before and won't turn them back on in addition to denying shell access. So, I'm moving servers again. Everything should be fully functional within three-four days. Fortunately, I hadn't cancelled my old service entirely yet and that's where this site is right now.
Posted by Chris Short at September 08, 2003 06:25 PM