I’m gettin’ all AWOL. I’ll be unreachable by email, telephone, or in person, from Feb28 – March 7th. For those who need geek help, elaine (at) techdonkey (dot) com will be monitored by a helper. See you in a week.
I’ve been having such difficulties in getting everyone to be ready for the move, and to get backups done *at the same time*, that our projected move has been delayed again and again. However, now that the old server has experienced a catastrophic crash, our plan has changed.
I’ve set up an account at a different [...]
The machine had been replaced, and accounts are being restored. So far 25% have been restored. ETA update is 2 hours.
Thanks for your patience!
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Further update. They’ve restored everything they have as backups. Most of us are up and running, but many of us are quite Humpty-Dumptied, and will require considerable putting-together-again.
Accordingly, please see: Server move: [...]
I’ve been working with the server techs on the server outage. They’re been rebooting and fixing issues since yesterday, but this mornig the hard drive of the server borked one final time. The machine is being rebuilt from scratch, and backups restored. This will take hours. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, and will continue [...]
After months and months of troubleshooting the sporadic internet kludge between the Telus ISP and the folks minding my server, I’m despairing of ever bypassing the blindspot that Telus has for every domain on our IP address. But we can’t endure the constant blockages. We’re moving, folks.
In short, I’ll be setting up a new server [...]
I’m seeing an intermittent problem with accessing our sites through HTTP. I’m tracing the issue, but it looks like a DNS problem. (The server seems fine, the sites are still there, but the signpost looks like it’s out of kilter at times.)
I’m on it.
Update: This is an odd error seemingly with the Telus nameservers at [...]
Morning, folks. I’ve got sporadic issues on the server, with http being down in alternating burst of despair from the MySQL services. I’m on it and will update here as I find things out.
- Elaine
5:23 pm
I’m all over it. Watch this space for updates.
5:44 pm
Still working on finding out what’s wrong, and getting on the path to righting it.
6:43pm
Haven’t forgotten about y’all.
7:54pm
Still on it, still frustrated.
9:05pm
Sorry folks, I’m getting nothing from the physical people who run the physical server. It’s like they disappeared into thin air. So not cool. [...]
Our server is doing that thing that techs like to call “experiencing downtime”.
I’m experiencing annoyance, and passing it right along to the folks who mind the servers like as if they’re little cows in a field.
Watch this space.
Our server fainted some time this morning. I became aware of it at 10am, and have been in contact with the folks who manage the hardware. They’re tightening bolts, greasing cogs, and heaving wrenches around as I type. No, wait, that greasing cogs thing was a what machine techs did a century ago. They’re, instead, [...]