Thursday, May 21, 2009
Website interruption
This is just a quick post to explain what happened with the site over the last couple of days. For the last year I've been moving websites from one server (Modwest) to another (HostGator). Modwest has become increasingly slow and troublesome over the last year and yesterday they had major hardware problems that resulted in many of my sites being offline ALL DAY. As I write this, more than 24 hours after the hardware issue started, there are still a couple of sites not working.
To say I'm annoyed is an understatement. Worse, I have clients who are annoyed — not with me, thankfully, because my clients are a nice bunch of people and they understand that downtime happens from time to time. Still, yesterday morning around 10am U.S. Eastern time I decided to move EnidBlyton.net to the new server. I knew there would be some work involved, but I figured it has to be done sometime anyway. In fact I'd already done some of this work, so I had the site moved and running by 11.15am (although people in other parts of the world wouldn't have seen it online until later).
Meanwhile, Modwest was still down, so I couldn't access the server and was unable to retrieve all the up to date messages from the Message Board and Talk About Blyton databases (which are stored online)... until 8.30am this morning. Now everything is back online, although I see that some of my sites at Modwest are STILL down. Their status report says they're 76% through rebooting everything, after going all night on it!
I used to swear by Modwest, but now their reliability sucks. Fingers crossed, now EnidBlyton.net will, like the Enid Blyton Society website, enjoy a more reliable hosting environment and faster page loads.
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