“Major Network Outage” at the host is keeping the main site pretty much inaccessible for the moment. How long this will last is anybody’s guess.
Update, two hours later: We seem to be back. Repeat: “seem.”
And nothing is connecting
We’re looking at a Major Network Outage over at my usual digs, and I don’t know when in-age — if that’s a word, and if not, why not? — will be restored.
Says the host:
This outage is impacting all of our central databases. Which controls nearly every service (ex. DNS, Panel, WebMail, Customer Websites, etc ). Therefor if you are encountering any type of downtime, it’s likely related to this outage.
I take them at their word, because, well, what else can I do?
Update: DNS servers gone south; pulled back and reoriented.
Beside the grassy Knol
Well, okay, I don’t know how much grass, if any, is involved in Google’s Knol project, but I do know this: it’s departing Google for a new home at WordPress. To me, this is almost as surprising as finding out that GM was selling Hydra-Matic transmissions to Lincoln before Ford eventually worked up a slushbox of its own.
But what the heck. The more things WordPress can do for others, I figure, eventually, the more things WordPress can do for me.
Banished from Googledom
As you may have heard, I’ve been banished from Google; their tools can’t find any malware, but their bot certainly seems to be able to. It may be a while before I start posting again over there.
Update, next day: Actually, it was less than 24 hours. Yay.
Update, January 3rd: Some time around the New Year, they relented.
In the event of something happening to me
The Bee Gees started a song (not to be confused with a joke) with that line, and it came to me while I was pondering this question: “What happens to all my Web stuff when I shuffle off this mortal coil?”
My first thought, semi-sensibly enough, was to move as much of it as possible over here, where it would presumably flourish. I’m coming up on 11,000 posts in a WordPress-compatible format, and I assume I could export those to a file and import it, probably piecemeal, into WordPress.com. That leaves, however, a good 8,000 static pages that can’t make the jump, and I am loath to let them expire when I can’t write a check for the hosting account anymore.
So I’ll have to puzzle over this one for a while.
“Intermittent networking issues,” they said
If you can’t get to the Main Site this morning, this is why. So far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with that end-of-the-world crap.
An hour, they said
The host is doing some machine upgrades, which will take, they say, approximately one hour — starting about 11:15 Central, if I’ve been paying the correct amount of attention. I’ve already had enough traffic to boost today into my Top 50, so I’m not gonna squawk. Much.
Update: Down at 2, up at 3. Works for me.
Quite a workout
Ye Olde Main Site is having its second-best day ever — over 8,000 visitors, with a couple hours still to go — and yet Things Are Not Failing. (Thanks to the Instant Man.)
Just wanted to mention that, since it’s so seldom I have anything good to report over here.
We need more Jobs
If I happen to catch a link to someone else using that Retro Mac WordPress theme in memory of Steve Jobs, I’ll put it up here, or you can plug it yourself in comments.
So far:
Greatly insane
No, wait, that’s “insanely great.”
Stuart Brown has conjured up a Retro MacOS theme, in memory of Steve Jobs, and, well, I just couldn’t resist.
I don’t anticipate that this will inspire me to greatness of my own, but what the heck.
