Still Alive and Kicking
Hello everyone. We apologize for the extended downtime. The rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. While we were off enjoying ourselves in the 3-D world, our web/email server experienced a hardware fault that required someone to physically access the system. That’s what happens when you have a system administrator (me) with no backup. We’re home now and everything is fixed. We know we lostmost/all of the emails that were sent while the server was offline. Hopefully we didn’t loose too many. Otherwise, the past 4½ days have been great.
We’re sorry if we worried anyone. More later.
Thanks for the update. Wow, you had us worried there for a mo.
you guys had me so worried!!!! It was days that I tried to get on and I honestly thought something happened to you especially after the girl at New years! So Glad to hear everything is okay. I even wrote to Osbasso to ask if he knew if you guys were okay. there are lots of people here who truly care about you so hopefully that makes you feel very good!!!! Hope you had an outstanding Father’s Day!!!!!!!
As Always I remain Your Interested Reader
I was a bit worried, I will admit!
Glad all is well!
I was also getting worried why I couldnt access your blog.
Glad to hear all is well.
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!
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Alfie: Sorry about that. Usually we’ll post a couple of times even when we are away and try to keep things online; but with some problems, there is no substitute for being there.
Interested Reader: We’ve been having strange equipment problems recently. We think we know what’s causing it but don’t quite have a solution yet. I could get into to Google mail account but that address isn’t widely known. We don’t leave town very often so I don’t expect for something like this to happen again.
I had a GREAT Father’s Day. I spent it with the kids which is always fun. And they got me a really cool figurine.
Michelle: I never say never but I’ve got a couple of ideas to make our setup more fault tolerant. Sorry to have worried you.
Kitty: We backup every day. Unfortunately the typical retry period for e-mail is 72 hours. We were down for longer than that so some emails sent to us were probably returned to sender since our system was unreachable for so long a. And you don’t know what you didn’t get unless it came from a friend.
Thanks for the concern. I hope to visit everyone’s blog and catch up on things very soon.